Wednesday in Austin, Jamie Dixon ignored all coaching convention.
He heaped pressure on his players when he told them it had been 30 years since a TCU basketball team had won at Texas and that they were going to change it that night.
He got the reaction he wanted.
“Most people, especially the dudes from Texas, were in shock that it’s been 30 years since TCU won at Texas,” forward Kenrich Williams said. “I think the guys really bought in. They figured it out that we needed to win this game.”
That the Horned Frogs did, rallying with a 12-0 run in the second half to pull out a 64-61 victory, their first in Austin in men’s basketball since Feb.