TCU @ Oklahoma State

Who will WIN this matchup?

TCU Horned Frogs (17-8)

@ Oklahoma State Cowboys (9-16)

Current odds:

TCU Horned Frogs: (-135)

Oklahoma State Cowboys: (+115)

• The line for this game is TCU by 2 points.

• After consecutive defeats and losing two more players to injury, TCU’s hopes for a second consecutive NCAA Tournament bid after a 19-year absence have taken a hard hit. With games against three ranked Big 12 teams upcoming, the Horned Frogs still have a chance to make a strong impression on the committee but they can’t afford to look past a struggling Oklahoma State team in Stillwater, OK on Monday. TCU dropped a 71-62 decision at home against Oklahoma on Saturday, losing a fourth player to a season-ending injury (Lat Mayen, knee) while playing without sophomore forward Kouat Noi (ankle) – the team’s second leading scorer at 14.8 points per game. The short-handed Horned Frogs shot just 35.4 percent from the field and allowed the Sooners to shoot 50 percent, an ongoing problem for the Horned Frogs who have allowed opponents to shoot 46.7 percent from the floor in Big 12 play – second-worst in the 10-team league. “We’ve got to find a way,” coach Jamie Dixon told the Star-Telegram. “We put out a new product out there today and it wasn’t successful. … We didn’t play well, but we have to play well tomorrow [in practice] and we have to play well Monday [at Oklahoma State]. We’ll have to figure it out.”

• Oklahoma State dropped its eighth straight Big 12 game and fifth overall in Saturday’s 69-57 defeat at Texas as leading scorers Cameron McGriff and Lindy Waters III were held to a combined 10 points on 4-of-14 shooting.

• The Horned Frogs received 14 points and 11 rebounds from JD Miller and 14 points, six steals and four assists from freshman Kendric Davis in his first start, but the team took a season-high 32 3-point shots – making just nine. “The looks weren’t good enough,” Dixon told reporters. “Looking at the percentages, you never want to be over 40 percent of your shots being 3s, so we took too many. … We’re playing guys at different spots. That may have had something to do with it. But you’ve got to find a way. It’s disappointing.” Junior guard Desmond Bane leads the team in scoring at 14.9 points per game and adds 5.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists while point guard Alex Robinson chips in 12.8 points and 7.1 assists and the 5-11 Davis (6.8 points) is averaging 17.3 points, five assists and 3.3 steals in 32.7 minutes over the past three games.

• Junior guard Thomas Dziagwa posted career highs of 23 points and seven 3-pointers against Texas and freshman Isaac Likekele added 16 points and six rebounds as the Cowboys continued their longest Big 12 regular-season skid since losing 12 straight from 2016-17. McGriff leads the team in scoring (13.2) and rebounding (7.6 – third in the Big 12) and is tied for second with seven double-doubles, while Waters (11.9 points) leads the conference in free-throw-shooting (92.4 percent) and ranks second in 3-point accuracy (45.1 percent). Dziagwa (10.8 points, 79 3-pointers), who drained the most 3-pointers in a game for the Cowboys since 2012, is third in the Big 12 in 3-point percentage (44.6) and is connecting on 41.7 percent for his career – seventh highest in school history.

• TCU freshman C Kevin Samuel (7.1 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.0 blocks) recorded four blocks against Oklahoma, giving him multiple blocks in five straight. Samuel also moved past Karviar Shepherd for the most blocks ever by a TCU freshman with 50.

• TCU G Jaylen Fisher (12.1 points), F Yuat Alok (3.3 points) and F Angus McWilliam have also been lost for the season to injuries, while F Kaden Archie (2.1 points) transferred to UTEP.

• The Cowboys lead the all-time series 25-7, including 9-2 at home, but the Horned Frogs won the first meeting this season 70-68 when Miller drove the length of the court in the final five seconds and converted a baseline jumper. Bane scored 26 points and Robinson added 11 assists for TCU, while F Yor Anei scored 20 points and Likekele had 17 for Oklahoma State.