FORT WORTH -- Prior to tip-off, senior night was at the forefront of everyone’s mind inside Schollmaier Arena as Alex Robinson and J.D. Miller were honored ahead of their final regular-season home game wearing a TCU uniform.
Just more than two hours later, all of that excitement had been drowned out of the building, save percentage of fans cheering for the other team in purple -- right in the thick of a Big 12 title hunt.
The Horned Frogs’ 64-52 loss to No. 18 Kansas State on Monday marked the latest installment of a downhill spiral that now has an NCAA Tournament bid looking less likely by the moment for a team that checked in on Sunday as one of the last four byes in ESPN’s bracketology.