TCU will have another top-25 matchup on their hands when they host No. 24 Iowa State on Saturday.
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00:00 So, you know, practicing today, first time back as a team,
00:05 gotta take the day off, needed it, obviously classes starting.
00:10 And so we'll get after here watching film the lift and then we'll practice.
00:13 So, it's a tough game to lose.
00:17 Watched it a couple different times.
00:20 Liked our execution actually down the stretch.
00:23 Offensively, seven possessions in the regulation,
00:27 were three missed layups, two wide open threes, and then four missed free throws.
00:33 So really it was good execution.
00:34 Had turnovers that added up that were too many.
00:40 Granted it was a 45 minute game, so
00:41 you're gonna have a little bit more than our number.
00:44 But probably a few too many.
00:45 I think we can correct those ones.
00:47 There was a pattern on a couple things of reads, both the receiver and
00:52 the passer, that we could have been better at.
00:56 But I talk about often, but simply defense, we didn't get it done.
01:00 53% from the field, you can't win on the road.
01:03 We did out rebound them by, I thought, a pretty good number.
01:07 But simply 53% was, it's on our defense.
01:09 Too many layups, too many in the paint baskets.
01:13 All of a sudden, I repeated after the game.
01:15 So we knew, saw, confirmed by the film the third time, fourth time that I watched it.
01:20 And so, but we've played, I think, the toughest schedule in the conference.
01:24 And we've lost two tight road games.
01:27 And we gotta not let, can't get caught up in the call or
01:31 losing the lead or the calls.
01:35 It's about us being better and being ready.
01:37 Two good practices, Thursday, Friday, and then a one o'clock game.
01:40 So that's our mentality, that's where we've been.
01:44 They need a day.
01:44 >> You mentioned out of Iowa State.
01:46 Have you had a chance to see them?
01:47 And what do you think of that?
01:48 >> Yeah, no, obviously, I watched them the last couple days here.
01:51 Now we're kinda seeing the team that you know and
01:55 familiar with their guys and more so, but they've got some new players as well.
01:59 But kind of a team that defensively tries to kinda do some similar things that we do.
02:07 Offensively, different sets, but
02:10 really nothing we haven't seen from them in the past.
02:12 So kind of a similar type game, I think,
02:17 in Cincinnati was similar with this physical defense.
02:22 You're gonna be contacted on drives and those things.
02:32 But yeah, just watch more, obviously, going forward here.
02:36 >> Yeah, it seems like a lot of teams in the Big 12 are struggling on the road.
02:41 What have you noticed so far?
02:43 >> It's got good teams.
02:44 I don't know for you, you weren't in Kansas, you weren't in Cincinnati.
02:48 I don't know if you saw the atmosphere, the facilities.
02:51 They're all in.
02:51 I mean, as I try to say, I try to have people understand the commitment
02:58 to this league in basketball, these facilities, and fans, and NIL.
03:03 And it's just, this ain't the Mountain West, this ain't the Conference USA.
03:10 This is, and it's just grown.
03:14 That's the thing, it's amazing to me.
03:16 It's just the commitment is unbelievable.
03:22 And I think it's just part of being in the best conference in the country, and
03:25 it's been that, and so you're just doing it.
03:27 So it is, and somehow this team,
03:32 this league does not have teams like collapse.
03:36 They don't.
03:37 Everybody keeps fighting and there's never a really bad team.
03:41 And I think we're in the same case with that,
03:45 whereas you see this happen across the country, where teams,
03:47 a couple teams, it's like things happen and they're just showing up, if that.
03:51 So that doesn't happen in this league.
03:54 And coaches, resources, I guess, matters.
04:02 So that's why we're at where we're at.
04:03 So again, this was announced, I guess, at the Oklahoma game.
04:07 But TC is retiring, Kenwood's number in a couple of weeks.
04:10 Can you just talk about that?
04:11 >> Jersey, yeah, Jersey, we're retiring as Jersey.
04:12 >> Yeah.
04:13 >> And yeah, I mean, a four year player,
04:21 college player, graduate, we're not seeing a lot of that going forward here.
04:25 And it's done great.
04:28 People love them, great story, no scholarships coming out of high school.
04:33 Comes back here in the offseason, he's here all the time, from Waco.
04:38 Got to Waco University, talked to LT yesterday, I hope he can be here.
04:45 We have another guy, I think he said he'd be able to make it.
04:49 So it's gonna be good, it's gonna be special, it's gonna be important to me.
04:54 And I hope it's important to our fans and administration.