We have a stunner! TCU, the No. 10 seed, has beaten seventh-seeded and heretofore NCAA tournament-bound Texas Tech. Final score: 67-62. (Aside: Red Raiders … in or out? In, right?  No?) The Horned Frogs, who had lost seven in a row, move on to play No. 2 seed WVU. It’s the next part of a series in which they’ve had zero success, and the Mountaineers, in candid confessions, were not expecting this.

That is not to say they weren’t prepared, though. Assistant coach Larry Harrison handled the team’s scouting report for TCU and let us peek inside.

“They’re pretty big up front, so boxing out and rebounding are very important,” Harrison said. “We’ve just got to disrupt their flow offensively. They run a lot of set plays, so we’ve got to disrupt the flow and disrupt their patterns and just make them play a lot of 1-on-1 basketball.”

Let’s begin with the necessary: TCU was only all right last night, and Texas Tech wasn’t as interested or as urgent as were the Horned Frogs. I have to think the Red Raiders had the best player on the floor (Zach Smith), but that did not mean much. TCU played well and well enough in stretches, and that mattered.

TCU is big — height and weight — but it seems to act like a team that doesn’t always know how to use that to its advantage on offense or defense or anywhere, really. There isn’t a shot-blocker. The leading rebounder gets 5.4 per game, and he’s 6-foot-10 and the best recruit in school history.

So with that size, the Horned Frogs tend to go as their guards go. Given what happened Wednesday night — the two players who WVU has circled combined for 34 points — that’s what has Harrison’s attention. Chauncey Collins is the team’s leading scorer, and he had two of his three 20-point games this season against the Mountaineers. He made 7 of 14 2-point shots in the two losses.

“Collins is a very good shooter,” Harrison said. “We’ve got to make sure that we don’t give him easy looks. We say he’s got to be dead on the catch — when he catches the ball, somebody’s got to be there in his face.”

Harrison said WVU needs to treat Brandon Parrish the same. Collins leads the team in 3-point baskets while Parrish is tops in 3-point percentage. No one else is much of a threat from the perimeter … which, knowing WVU, means somebody in purple is hitting eight 3s in the quarterfinal.

The Horned Frogs can do worse than follow the lead of Malique Trent, a first-year junior college transfer who is second on the team in scoring. He had 24 points in two games against WVU, but the Big 12’s leader in steals per game averaged four per game against the Mountaineers.

“We’ve had more problems with Collins and Parrish,” Harrison said. “Those two guys have given us some trouble. We’ve done well against (Trent), but Collins and Parrish are the guys who have hurt us the most in the past.”

TCU led at halftime in the home game in January, and that was the last game of WVU’s three-game road trip. WVU’s largest margin of victory in a Big 12 game this season was at home last month against TCU, which now has less than 20 hours to prepare for the Mountaineers.

“I think our size and maybe our physicality at times help us, because our guards are a little bigger than theirs,” Harrison said. “With Parrish and Collins, we just can’t let those two guys get open looks, because they can hurt us on the perimeter.”