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TCU’s Dixon seeks faster starts as remedy for close losses

TCU men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon says his team can end its seven-game losing streak against conference opponents and make a significant run toward a title in this week’s Big 12 tournament by making minimal corrections to the way it is playing upon arrival in Kansas City, Mo.

TCU (17-14) has a 5-7 mark in games decided by single-digit margins in Big 12 play but has lost its last four matchups that fit that category. The streak includes TCU’s last three games, losses to No. 10 West Virginia (61-60), Kansas State (75-74) and Oklahoma (73-68).

“It’s certainly an even-matched league in a lot of ways.