The unsightly numbers continued surfacing Thursday, reinforcing the significance of TCU’s most recent setback in a six-game losing streak that has scratched the Horned Frogs (17-13, 6-11 Big 12) from projections about at-large invitees to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
TCU fell to No. 69 in Thursday’s updated RPI rankings, a drop of 11 spots within hours of Wednesday’s 75-74 home loss to Kansas State (18-12, 7-10) in a battle of NCAA bubble teams. TCU, a projected No. 8 seed in March Madness as recently as Feb. 8, no longer appears in bracket projections of the 68-team field posted Thursday by USA Today, ESPN.