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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This was not the original column you were going to read.
Thanks to howling winds outside my hotel on this blissful evening, I was unable to sleep, preparing for my drive back to Lubbock after my three-day stay at the Big 12 Tournament, which ended earlier than usual after Texas Tech basketball’s thud against Iowa State.
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Much like earlier this week, my penchant for writing ahead bit me in the behind. After Texas Tech’s game, one of the stories I wrote was a column about, you guessed it, the court, that monstrosity known as the ASB GlassFloor LED court the Big 12 has put its basketball players on for the past two weeks.
Honestly, it was probably one of my better columns. Had some good quips in there that’ll probably never see the light of day. The gist of it, though, was this: Yormark came to the Big 12 with an innovative aspiration for what the league can be. That comes with gambles and outside-the-box ideas to draw attention to a league fighting for space at the top of the food chain.
Of course, this leads to failures, and this court was perhaps the biggest. It was an issue far earlier than Christian Anderson slipping and sliding all over the floor Thursday morning, coming out of the game injured and not returning — the game was well over by then, so no need to risk further injury to he or LeJuan Watts with the NCAA Tournament to think about.
Yormark was defensive of the reception the court got for the women’s tournament last week. Every single player and coach has been asked about the court at the postgame press conferences. In almost every instance, players said it was. … fine. Slippery, weird, but acceptable.
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“It’s obviously a different surface that we’re used to playing on,” Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland said, “and there’s some challenging moments today, is what I would say. I think with size around the basket it’s not, but the quickness and the guard play and stop and start change in direction, it just has a…
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