School's first trip to Sweet 16 since 2008 is all that matters for this group of...
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Dylan Disu, doing his unwitting impersonation of Hakeem Olajuwon with a floater, didn’t know that this was when everything was supposed to fall apart. Timmy Allen and Marcus Carr had no idea this was when Texas was destined to blow another opportunity. Sir’Jabari Rice, blissfully unfamiliar with a decade and a half of NCAA Tournament failure, carried no monkey on his back.
“Whatever happened in the past,” said Allen, who like the Longhorns’ other top five scorers transferred from another program within the past two years, “is the past.” “Through all these experiences, there’s a calm, there’s a poise about this team,” Terry said. “These guys were stone-faced.” “He’s one of the best humans in the basketball world, and I mean this,” Ogden said. “He’s just a genuinely good person.”
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