Lawrence Journal-World: Jayhawks remember nightmare at TCU

Lawrence Journal-World: Jayhawks remember nightmare at TCU

By Gary Bedore

— Jamari Traylor remembers the fateful day Kansas University’s basketball team temporarily forgot how to put the ball in the basket.

Back on Feb. 6, 2013, during the 6-foot-8 forward’s freshman season, the Jayhawks managed to score a mere two points the first 12 minutes, six points the initial 16 minutes and 13 the (entire) first half of a 62-55 loss to a TCU team that entered not only as an 18-point underdog, but 0-8 in the Big 12 and 9-12 overall.

“I was thinking, ‘Oh, man. We are in a hole right now,’’’ senior forward Traylor said of his thoughts with KU down, 22-13, at halftime in the Horned Frogs’ Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

“At the time, I still thought we were going to win the game. I didn’t think we were going to lose, but we did. That was a bad point in time for us. We had lost two in a row (actually the previous game to Oklahoma State) or three in a row, something crazy. We had to turn it around, and we did that year. We won it that year,” Traylor added of the league title. …

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