Basketball:
The Frogs are excited to be in, but don’t seem to feel just getting there is enough.
And throughout this season, especially when injuries, including the season-ending injury to Jaylen Fisher, had the Frogs playing with a short bench and the gauntlet of Big 12 Conference talent was wearing them thin, Dixon kept chirping in their ears that they were good enough. That they were improving, especially on the defensive end. The confidence never wavered.
That resolve started to build a year ago, after the Frogs lost their last seven regular-season games in the Big 12 before reaching the semifinals in the Big 12 tournament and then winning five straight to capture the NIT.