DES MOINES, Iowa -- Sir'Jabari Rice came to Texas like a lot of his teammates, for the chance to win championships -- Big 12 and NCAA.
He couldn't help but wonder, if only for a brief moment, whether his dreams were ruined on the morning of Dec. 12, when he received word that the coach he joined the Longhorns to play for, Chris Beard, had been arrested.
"It was a whole bunch of emotions, a whole bunch of things going through your head,'' said Rice, the Longhorns' second-leading scorer. "How the day was, how the routine was, those things were knocked off.