TCU overwhelms Louisville

Louisville has lost four of its last five games since winning 16 in a row.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Rick Pitino thought his Louisville team was mediocre, at best, when the season started.
Now the 10th-ranked Cardinals, who until last month had won 16 straight games, are beginning to prove their coach's preseason assessment correct.
Corey Santee scored 20 points, including a 3-pointer on the game's first shot that put TCU ahead to stay, and the Horned Frogs embarrassed the struggling Cardinals 71-46 on Tuesday night.
It was the fourth loss in five games for Louisville (17-5, 7-4 Conference USA) since their winning streak. Unlike the other three losses since Pitino returned from a brief medical leave, this one wasn't even close.
"We're not battling adversity the correct way. We have to regroup, get better and start to improve," Pitino said, adding a "humbling" loss is good "to get you back mentally and physically."
Lowest-scoring game
The Cardinals had the lowest-scoring game for a team coached by Pitino since Boston University scored 46 in a two-point loss to Canisius on the same date 22 years ago. That was a span of 456 games with four teams over 15 college seasons interrupted by two stints as an NBA coach.
On a night when there were no other games involving ranked teams, TCU (10-12, 6-5) gave coach Neil Dougherty his first win over a Top 25 team.
TCU was 0-9 against ranked teams under Dougherty, a former assistant to Roy Williams at Kansas. The Horned Frogs were outscored by an average margin of 27 points in their other three Top 25 games this season against Kansas, Vanderbilt and Cincinnati.
"I don't know if ranked or unranked means as much to me as how our kids performed against a very good Louisville team," Dougherty said. "It was good to see that. It was good for me to see how they enjoyed competing with that team."
Two years ago
TCU's last win over a ranked team was 102-88 over No. 20 Fresno State two years ago when Billy Tubbs was still the coach. The last win over a Top Ten team was 14 years ago against No. 8 Arkansas.
"It's at the top. This is the best win so far for our team," said senior guard Nucleus Smith, who had 17 points.
Louisville made its first trip to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex since 1986, when the Cardinals won their last NCAA championship in Dallas.