Texas Basketball: 3 Big 12 teams that hurt the most with the SEC move

TCU

Another Big 12 program that looks to be in a rough spot for men’s hoops, granted not as bad as Kansas State, is the TCU Horned Frogs. Head coach Jamie Dixon does have the Horned Frogs in a better spot on the hardwood than really at any other point since the turn of the century.

But we’re still talking about a basketball program that has made the NCAA Tournament just once in the last two decades. TCU was close at different points in the last three years, but just couldn’t quite get over the hump in the end.

TCU does not have a strong track record of basketball success. Most of the appeal for another power conference wanting to add TCU would come from the football and baseball programs. The academic prestige of the college could help out in conference realignment too.

Any way you spin it, TCU is going to have a tough time finding relevance in whatever fashion the college hoops landscape shakes out after Texas and Oklahoma head to the SEC. TCU seems like a mid-major caliber hoops program at best. And that’s not going to help them out in any regard moving forward.

TCU could rely on other programs such as Texas and Oklahoma to claim a few key victories in the Big 12 in the past few seasons. The Longhorns and Sooners weren’t the strongest basketball programs over the course of the past decade.

But having to still deal with strong Big 12 basketball programs (if the conference winds up sticking together) like the Iowa State Cyclones, West Virginia Mountaineers, Kansas, etc. could see the Horned Frogs struggle in the years to come.