The season doesn't come down to this weekend for TCU baseball. In fact, the Horned Frogs will still have 12 regular-season games, including six Big 12 games remaining before the conference tournament.
But this three-game set against No. 4 Texas Tech (32-10, 10-5 in the Big 12), beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at Lupton Stadium, is something of a last stand for TCU ( 20-17, 6-8), which is fighting for its life to stay in the postseason hunt.
It is an odd position for the Horned Frogs, who have been to an unparalleled four consecutive College World Series and have missed the postseason only once in coach Jim Schlossnagle's 14 previous seasons.