A photo posted by @mikecasazza on Jan 4, 2016 at 2:55pm PST

You are looking live at Ed & Rae Schollmaier Arena, the site of tonight’s Big 12 tilt and the place where TCU plays homes games now. No more sharing space with community swim meets! The Horned Frogs have never lost here after beating Alcorn State Dec. 20 and Delaware State Dec. 28.

For the uninitiated, TCU played in the same gym previously, but the erstwhile Daniel-Meyer Coliseum needed some fixes. This is what $73 million gets you these days.

There’s nothing particularly unique or distinguishing here, except that the floor is, like, white with an odd honeycomb design. And it’s small with a capacity of 7,201. Don’t forget that extra one. This is the third home TCU has had this season, following the Wilkerson-Greines Center and — I’m serious  with this one — the University Rec Center.

Being home has to help, because last year couldn’t have been, but the performances have been just so-so so far. TCU shot 48.3 percent from the floor and 33.3 percent from 3-point range in the debut, an 80-69 win over Alcorn State before 5,792. In the second game, the Horned Frogs beat Delaware State 75-47 despite shooting 29.8 percent from the floor and 23.5 percent from 3-point range.

Maybe the floor is actually ice?

Then again, don’t expect the Mountaineers to have or express sympathy for playing away from home. They’ve been on the road since Dec. 29 and could win three successive road games — true road games — for the first time in 27 seasons. WVU actually did it twice in the 1988-89 season, first sweeping Charlotte, Maryland and UMass in 13 days and later taking down Duquesne, Rhode Island and Rutgers in nine days.

Should the Mountaineers pull this off, it’ll have happened in six days, making it more heroic than historic, though don’t discount the history. WVU had eight other back-to-back-to-back road games since the 1988-89 season and went 2-1 once, 1-2 four times and 0-3 twice.

I’m mentioning this here because it took some research and I’d hate for WVU to lose and never see this make the newspaper. But you can’t tell anyone, OK? OK.

Now, as for the adversary …

TCU produced a watered-down version of its annual non-conference display, not going 13-0 like last season or something misleading like seems to happen every season, but going 8-4 and winning the final four games. The Horned Frogs then opened the season on the road and got whacked by Phil Forte-less Oklahoma State, 69-48.

It’s a team with a lot of new players, and coach Trent Johnson has only used two starting lineups. The first was 3-3. The second, which figures to go again tonight, is 5-2. It helps to have 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward Chris Washburn back. He missed the first 11 games with a hand injury and has played in the past two games, totaling 12 points, nine rebounds and three assists. He averaged 7.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game last season and, yes, he’s the son of that Chris Washburn.

Something to watch: The play of 6-10 center Karviar Shepherd. “One of the nation’s most sought-after prospects, Shepard is the highest-rated prospect to ever sign with TCU,” but he has four points the past three games. Dude still doesn’t have a 20-point game in his career and was ranked higher by some than Devin Williams in the 2013 recruiting class. Williams has done far better in his career, and their matchup in the post will be important tonight.

Throw it to me in the post.