There’s an argument to be made, not one I’m sure I believe, but a plausible one nonetheless that TCU Basketball is entering a “year zero” of sorts. Heading in Jamie Dixon’s fourth season, the Frogs have exercised their NCAA tournament ghosts (2018), and found some NIT success along the way (2017, 2019), boosting the Horned Frogs’ reputation (and perhaps moral) on the court.
This offseason, though, that seemed to come undone. The 2019 Horned Frogs started the season 15-4 reaching as high as 19th in KenPom’s efficiency ratings, then proceeded to lose 8 of 12 down the stretch, including overtime heartbreakers against Kansas and at West Virginia, either of which might have catapulted TCU into the NCAA tournament.