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Brown
and Co. get physical in Frogs’ first conference victory By
now the Horned Frogs are used to being the little dog in the dogfight.
However Wednesday night the team found a opponent its own size,
and took full advantage. Senior
forward Jamal Brown had his fourth double-double of the season with
19 points and 13 rebounds, and freshman forward Chudi Chinweze had
10 points and seven rebounds in the Frogs’ nine-point victory
over Tulane Wednesday. Facing
a Tulane team starting only two players in the frontcourt, the Frogs
used their muscle. TCU attacked the basket regularly and out rebounded
the Green Wave 37-34. Brown’s
19 points on 7-of-11 shooting were a season-high and head coach
Neil Dougherty said he was impressed with Brown’s performance. Brown
said the Green Wave were strong and physical, but it was nothing
new to the undersized Frogs. “We
expect that every night — big, strong and physical (teams),”
Brown said. “We just got to box out and go get rebounds.” Dougherty
said the Frogs will have to play in the post like they did Wednesday
in order to continue being successful. “We
could play shirts and skins and you could find TCU by seeing the
short team,” Dougherty said. “We are going to be the small
team and that is OK. We have got to do a lot of things well so that
size differential doesn’t hurt us.” The
game was also the first back for Chinweze, who had been out since
suffering a stress fracture in his left leg against Centenary Jan.
4. “It
give us another good athlete (inside) that is strong and can battle,”
Dougherty said. “These guys the last few games have been playing
heavy minutes and they have done a good job of doing it. But I think
they are going to perform much better with slightly fewer minutes
with more intense quality time.” Danny
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