KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Both as TCU's basketball coach and as an alum, Jamie Dixon has a grasp on what TCU is trying to achieve this week.
Last season, TCU ended a 20-year NCAA Tournament drought. Now, despite a season laced with injuries and impending transfers and an assistant coach linked to the college basketball corrupt scandal, the Horned Frogs are trying to go back-to-back for the first time since 1952 and '53.
Even Dixon hates using that as an example because the NIT was almost as prestigious as the NCAA Tournament back then. Real March Madness was decades away.