KANSAS CITY — From Tubby Smith’s coach of the year coronation to Texas Tech (presumably) locking up its first NCAA bid after nine seasons, Wednesday’s opening-round Big 12 tournament game against undermanned TCU seemed a formality.
Consider us formally stunned.
TCU pulled it out 67-62.
Chauncey Collins delivered a huge first half, scoring 16 of his 19 points, and nearly cracking his 5-foot-something body on what surely will stand as the damnedest dunk of the week.