Big 12 Tournament: Day Three

Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel hasn’t been the only Big 12 coach trying to push all the right buttons this season. Texas coach Rick Barnes has been looking for answers since his team’s freefall began in mid-January.

In a span of just seven weeks, the Longhorns went from the nation’s top spot to completely out of the weekly Associated Press rankings.

“We’ve just been so inconsistent, and not just one guy,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said after Thursday night’s 86-67 loss to Baylor in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament. “To be quite frank, I’m baffled that we could go and do what we did today through a five-minute period. I thought we had taken some steps forward, which we seemed to do. Then we’ll take a step backwards.

“If I knew how to fix it, I would. I know what it is, it’s inconsistency. It’s from game to game wondering who is going to do their job, night in, night out.”

Sounds similar to some answers from Capel this season.