FORT WORTH, Texas — Before Monday night's game at TCU and after a series of hard-to-handle Big 12 losses, an Oklahoma State basketball staffer suggested the Cowboys desperately needed something good to happen.
Instead, it only got worse.
OSU lost.
To TCU.
Last-place TCU, although the Horned Frogs now have company from the Cowboys in the Big 12 basement.
A TCU squad that had lost seven straight conference games.
TCU 63, OSU 56.
And this wasn't simply about the Cowboys playing without Jawun Evans and Phil Forte or confronting a rugged road environment.