Men’s college basketball, women’s college basketball – there’s no shortage of college ball, every night.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you figure out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in college basketball.TCU was nearly upset by Incarnate WordLet’s set the scene here, since TCU isn’t ranked and therefore this might not be as obvious of a problem as it should be at first. The Horned Frogs came into play on Monday against the Incarnate Word Cardinals ranked 65th in the NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET — they were, by NET’s reckoning, the second-best team in action on Monday on the men’s side, behind VCU which started the day 62nd. NET, by the way, is used to help fill out the at-large bids for March Madness, so the teams sitting in the 60s are potentially on the bubble for a chance at a national championship.Incarnate Word is… not ranked in the 60s. They began Monday instead at 233 out of 365 Division I men’s teams. That’s the kind of team that TCU needs to not just win against, but crush. The Horned Frogs were only able to win by 4 points (69-65), and they were behind at halftime (37-31). It’s great to come back and win, but it was against a team from the bottom third of D-I and they only won by a few buckets. That would be Monday’s points leader on the men’s side, senior guard Davion Bailey, who scored 32 points — just under half (!) of Incarnate Word’s total — in 38 minutes. Bailey shot 9-18 threes and added 5 rebounds, as well as an assist and a blocked shot. This was almost enough for TCU to lose. TCU could have easily won by more had they been able to make a three. They were just 3-for-16 beyond the arc — 19% — compared to Incarnate Word’s 10-for-23 that was almost entirely Bailey’s doing. The Horned Frogs had more fast-breaks than the Cardinals, scoring 21 to 5, outscoring them in the lane (40 to 28), committing fewer fouls (12 against 18), and hitting more free throws. But they couldn’t score from three, and Incarnate Word — well, Bailey — could, and it meant the game was all tied up until there were just 38 seconds remaining in regulation.Sophomore forward David Punch had 17 points, 13 rebounds and 5 blocks for TCU to help keep them within striking distance, and good thing, too, or else they would have lost. As it stands, NET dropped TCU from 65 to 70 despite their win, and…
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