TCU Basketball: 2021-22 season preview and outlook for Horned Frogs
By Joey Loose
Schedule Outlook
As previously mentioned, TCU got off to a good start last season, with much of that success coming against an unheralded nonconference slate. They did pick up a couple of decent wins in Big 12 play, but when your most impressive wins are Tulsa and Texas A&M, the nonconference wasn’t exactly a murderer’s row.
This season won’t be very different, with the season beginning with home dates with McNeese State, Southern Miss, and Nicholls State, all winnable games. The Horned Frogs then head to California to play a couple of WCC schools in the SoCal Challenge. They’ll then return home with a couple more home games, including against last year’s Cinderella darling Oral Roberts.
December provides opportunities for intrigue as the Horned Frogs finally start playing some fellow power conference programs. They’ll host Utah in the Simmons Bank Showdown and play against rival Texas A&M in Houston a few days later. Their only true road game is a tough date at Georgetown on December 18th. Two more non-conference games take them into Big 12 play.
The Big 12 plays a complete round-robin schedule, meaning TCU has to host and travel to all of their Big 12 foes, which means some tough dates, especially against Baylor, Kansas, and West Virginia, their first three opponents this season. They’ll also host LSU on January 29th as part of the Big 12/SEC challenge. Considering the state of the Big 12, it’s going to be quite the grind, with their last week of the season including Senior Night against Kansas and a road date at West Virginia.