Kansas City Star: Seats grow hotter for Big 12 Tournament first-day coaches
By Blair Kerkhoff bkerkhoff@kcstar.com
Three teams practiced Tuesday at the Sprint Center. Four were supposed to, but travel issues caused by bad weather forced a late arrival by Texas Tech and the Red Raiders scrapped their workout.
That left Kansas State, Oklahoma State and TCU, the teams bound by their NCAA Tournament status.
They don’t have one, unless a Big 12 Tournament champion emerges from the group. This is the 20th event, and no team has gone 4-0 to win their way onto the NCAA bracket.
So unless 10th-seeded TCU can begin a path by defeating Tech, second-seeded West Virginia and probably two more NCAA-bound teams, or the Kansas State-Oklahoma State winner gets through top-ranked Kansas in the next game, the season will end.
But will coaching tenures at those schools? …
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