Sophomore point guard Ronnie Moss changed his commitment from Kent State to TCU a year and a half ago when Jim Christian, the previous Kent State Coach, was hired to coach for the Frogs.

Moss, a Fort Worth native, said he was glad that he made the decision to come home and liked the changes Christian had made to the program..

"Coach Christian loves someone that is going to come in and be a hard-nosed player for him," Moss said. "He has our back, and we're a team and a family."

So you want to go see some professional basketball but can't afford a Dallas Mavericks game? There's a new team in town that can help you quench your basketball thirst. The Dallas Generals will be playing their inaugural season this year in the American Basketball Association.

The Generals will pay home games at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas. Students on a tight college budget can get more bang for their buck with the Generals. For only $15 a student can sit courtside and see some exciting ABA basketball.

Updated kitchens in Annie Richardson Bass Hall brought a refreshing shift to the nutrition department.

Renovations this summer transformed the outdated kitchens in Bass into improved working and teaching spaces, said Anne VanBeber, nutritional sciences department chair. The kitchen renovations had been in the works for about three years, she said.

"The whole area looks like it belongs in the 21st century, instead of in 1970," VanBeber said.

A closet full of roaches. A couch covered in dust and dirt. A mattress on the floor with the springs breaking through.

These are the norms at the one- or two-bedroom apartments families live in at homeless shelters in the area, said Joe Askew, co-creator of a new student organization on campus, Student Outreach Against Poverty, or SOAP.

People with homes like these or no homes at all are those whom the members of SOAP are trying to help.

These guys are down-to-earth students, smiling and making jokes with each other.

The midnight shift is a long one for a campus police officer - it starts at 10:30 p.m. and lasts until 6:30 a.m.

Officer George Steen, who worked for the Fort Worth Police Department for 25 years and started as a university police officer in February, said the midnight shift is generally reserved for rookies who have to work their way up the ladder.

"One night I was working and I looked at (my partner) and said, 'It's 5:00 a.m., we're on South University, we're working midnights. Is it 1981?'" Steen said, referencing his days as a rookie with the FWPD.

In head coach Jim Christian's first season, Horned Frog basketball recovered from a 1-3 start to move to 13-6 and 4-1 in conference play. If only the season could have ended there.

The Frogs fell apart down the stretch, losing 11 of their last 12 games, all to conference foes including a heartbreaking last-second loss to top-seeded Utah in the conference tournament quarterfinals.

This year, Christian is looking to put it behind him and lead the Horned Frogs to a smoother season with more experienced starters.

The Horned Frogs will face several matchups that are very similar to last year's with six common non-conference opponents.

After the Nov. 13 home opener against Mid-American Christian, the team will go to Tempe, Ariz., for the opening round of the Preseason NIT. The Frogs will face Cal State Northridge in the first round.

Northridge advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2009 after a 17-14 season and returns three starters. The winner will go on to face the winner of Arizona State-Texas State.

Frog fans who were not able to make the trek up to Provo, Utah, to see ESPN College GameDay's Lee Corso slip the SuperFrog mascot head on might have a chance to see it in person next week.

GameDay analyst Kirk Herbstreit told ESPN Radio's Galloway & Company that if Ohio State loses to Penn State this weekend, GameDay will most likely be redirecting its bus to Fort Worth for the TCU game against Utah on Nov. 14.

The No. 6 ranked Horned Frogs are looking to keep their hopes at a Bowl Championship Series bowl game alive as they prepare for a tough ball game on the road this week against San Diego State University.

"On defense they're tough, resilient, and on offense they don't stop coming at you," said head coach Gary Patterson.

Patterson stressed the importance of his team not looking ahead to the Utah game and remaining focused on a 4-4 San Diego State team that is on a two-game win streak and is still competing for a berth in this year's Poinsettia Bowl.