Kimberly Seward grew up with the towel drill and so did her son, Jamarius Burton. Wilford Seward, her father, considered that defensive drill the building block for everything else in practice.
"We never moved to anything else until we perfected it," Seward said. "He got us used to squatting and moving our feet and when we didn't do it properly, it was repetition. Over and over again."
That's why Burton, a freshman guard at Wichita State, is making a good impression as the regular season nears. The Shockers play their exhibition game on Tuesday against NCAA Division II Catawba (N.