MANHATTAN – Starve a body and fix a foot.
OK, no one ever recommended such a homespun cure – even old-timers who stockpile medicine cabinets with cod liver oil, lozenge tins and Epsom salts.
And no, D.J. Johnson never starved while attempting to bounce back from foot surgeries that kept the Kansas State forward out of a basketball uniform since the Wildcats fell to Kentucky in March 2014, the last NCAA Tournament game K-State played.
It was in that 56-49 defeat Johnson suffered a broken foot.
Since then, 600-plus agonizing days passed, incorporating all of last season, before the 6-foot-9 junior from St.