TCU's Saturday conference game against Air Force at 5:00 p.m. at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum will be more than just an opportunity for TCU to snap its four-game losing streak.

TCU will retire James Cash Jr.'s No. 54 jersey at halftime. Cash was the first African-American to play in the Southwest Conference from 1967-69 and also became the first full-time African-American professor at the Harvard Business School.

Cash also led TCU to a SWC championship in the 1967-68 season and is in the top-five all-time for TCU career points and rebounds.

TCU's swimming & diving team will compete in a dual meet against New Mexico and BYU at 6 p.m. Friday at the TCU University Recreation Center Natatorium. The men's team enters the meet at 3-1 (3-1 MWC),...

There's still a bitter taste that lingers in sophomore pitcher Matt Purke's mouth after the 2010 season.

The taste of losing for a pitcher who went 16-0 his freshman season might be indescribable. That's why he and his team take things 200 feet at a time after TCU's first 2010 College World Series berth; they certainly don't count the days, either, Purke said.

"Just the bitter taste of getting third instead of first [in the CWS]," Purke said. "We were one game away from the final series, so we're looking to make it to that final series [in 2011] and win the whole thing."

The TCU men's golf team will be in Hawaii on Tuesday to compete in the University of Hawaii Hilo Intercollegiate Tournament in Kona, Hawaii.

Head coach Bill Montigel said the tournament was one of the most prestigious and fielded one of the strongest fields in college golf.

The team just finished qualifying for the tournament and freshman John Antle qualified for his first tournament, Montigel said.

Senior captain Tom Hoge said Hawaii is always one tournament to which the team can look forward.

The fifth-ranked TCU equestrian team will compete against Delaware State University on Sunday for an opportunity to stay undefeated on the season.

The meet is scheduled to take place all day at October Hills Farm in Hudson Oaks, Texas.

Although Delaware State (3-5) is unranked, the match is significant, TCU head coach Gary Reynolds said.

"We don't worry about whether a team's ranked or not," he said. "The biggest thing that we just focus on is execution."

With one of the strongest pitching programs in the nation, the Horned Frogs are poised to get back to Omaha, Neb., after their first College World Series berth last season.

TCU has five pitchers returning this year who made appearances in the CWS in June. Returning pitchers include seniors Trent Appleby and Steven Maxwell, junior Erik Miller, sophomore Matt Purke and junior Kyle Winkler.

Purke, the 2010 Consensus Freshman of the Year, will headline TCU's starting rotation after he posted a 16-0 record in 2010 and won all his decisions in the 2010 postseason.