TCU vs. Santa Clara Game Thread: The SoCal Challenge

Photo by George Walker/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesTCU traveled to California over the weekend, and tonight they play Santa Clara in the SoCal Challenge. While it’s a neutral site game, this is TCU’s first game away from the friendly confines of Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena, making it a new test.

Santa Clara (#74 RPI, #88 Kenpom) is TCU’s toughest test so far this season, having already defeated Stanford by 16 and Nevada by 22, but the Broncos will be without their second-leading scorer, senior forward Josip Vrankic.

Depth might become an issue for the Broncos without Vrankic - who have five players averaging more than 30 minutes/game (Vrankic being one of them), and no one else averaging…