A Shocker throws a bad pass, and he knows coaches are watching. They watch the pass, and they watch his reaction to the mistake.
Did he mope and let opponents run past? Or did he sprint back on defense to lessen the harm?
"How quickly can we do the next right thing?" Wichita State basketball coach Paul Mills said. "We're going to mess up, but how quickly can we do the next right thing?"
That scenario is the essence of the "care factor" standings that Shocker coaches and staff chart in practice and regularly hand out on paper to their players.