He turned nothing into something before, although Jamie Dixon had a heck of a lot more help last time.
He will not arrive at TCU with Ben Howland at his side. He is riding into Fort Worth on a lone horse, there to rescue a basketball program that barely has existed for the whole of NCAA basketball.
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There have been seven NCAA tournament appearances by the Horned Frogs in nearly eight decades of the event's existence. So that's less than one every 10 years.