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FORT WORTH – TCU hosts Texas Tech at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in its final home game in 2023-24.
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FORT WORTH – TCU hosts Texas Tech at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in its final home game in 2023-24.
The Horned Frogs enter the midweek tilt riding a three-game winning streak and looking to avenge a 71-65 to the Lady Raiders on Jan. 27 in Lubbock. Texas Tech has since lost seven straight games.
The teams are tied for ninth in the Big 12 standings with two regular season games remaining. Wednesday's winner gains the inside track to earn a first round bye in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, held from March 7-12 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Game
Teams: TCU (18-9, 5-11 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (16-13, 5-11 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
- Ron Thulin, play-by-play
- Jada Curtis, analyst
- Chris Blake, play-by-play
- TCU is looking to win 15 home games for the fifth time ever and first since 2014-15. A victory on Wednesday would tie for the second-most home wins in a single-season in program history.
- The Horned Frogs will notch their third-ever four-game Big 12 winning streak and first in four seasons should they defeat the Lady Raiders.
- TCU will obtain its largest year-over-year Big 12 win improvement with a victory on Wednesday.
- Mark Campbell is one victory shy of becoming TCU's winningest first-year head coach.
- Texas Tech has lost seven straight ballgames since defeating TCU 71-65 on Jan. 27 in Lubbock.
- TCU vaulted from 12th to ninth in the Big 12 standings following Saturday's win against Houston.
- TCU will honor Paige Bradley, Knisha Godfrey and Jaden Owens during its Senior Night celebration.
- TCU has held 21 of 27 teams under their season scoring average, including 17 of 18 at home.
- The Horned Frogs are limiting teams to 56.2 points per game inside Schollmaier Arena.
- TCU held Houston to 4-18 shooting behind the arc, signifying the 19th time the Horned Frogs have surrendered six-or-fewer threes this season. TCU is 13-6 when allowing no more than six 3-pointers.
- The Horned Frogs are one of only two teams nationwide ranking in the top-10 in 3-pointers per game (5th, 9.7), 3-point percentage differential (7th, .101) and 3-pointers (8th, 263).
- TCU is averaging the third-most 3-pointers per game of any squad in Big 12 history.
- The Horned Frogs are 37 threes shy of becoming the seventh squad in Big 12 history to reach 300 in a season. TCU broke its school record for 3-pointers when it knocked down its 254th at BYU.
- TCU and No. 1 South Carolina are the only teams in the country ranking in the top-20 in both 3-point percentage offense and defense.
- Lisa Leslie Award finalist Sedona Prince returned from an 11-game injury absence on Saturday.
- TCU regained its status as being the only team in the country with two 20-point-per-game scorers upon Prince's return. Prince (20.9 ppg) and Conner (20.4) are 16th and 23rd nationally in scoring.
- Prince and Conner are the top-two scorers in the Big 12. They have both reached double figures in each of the 15 times they have taken the court together.
- Prince is the lone D1 player ranking in the top-25 nationally in scoring, rebounding and blocks.
- Prince is the only player in the nation averaging 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Prince has finished with three-or-more blocks in 10 of her 15 outings, highlighted by a 10-block clinic against ACU on Dec. 5. The 10 rejections are the most in a game by any D1 player this season.
- Prince is second nationally in blocks per game (3.2).
- Conner has drained 84 threes across 21 games. She is four away from becoming TCU's single-season 3-point record holder and surpassing Zahna Medley's 87 threes in 2015-16.
- Conner ranks second and fourth, respectively, in the country in 3-pointers per game (4.0) and 3-pointers. She has drained five-or-more in eight games this season and 10 times for her career.
- Conner is one of only seven players in the country and one of just five guards 5-11-or-shorter averaging at least 20 points, five rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu is averaging 11.3 points and 9.3 rebounds over TCU's last three wins.
- Emma-Nnopu leads all Big 12 guards and is 13th nationally among players 5-11-or-shorter in offensive boards (67). She snagged four as a part of a 13-point, 12-rebound double-double vs. Houston.
- Una Jovanovic continues to rank third in the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.34. She finished with a game-leading six assists against one turnover on Saturday vs. Houston.
- Sydney Harris and Conner rank second and third in 3-pointers per 40 minutes, trailing only Caitlin Clark.
- TCU is 9-1 when four players score in double figures. Conner, Emma-Nnopu Harris and Prince all finished in double digits vs. the Cougars.
- Stake TCU to its largest year-over-year Big 12 win improvement.
- Match the 2000-01 squad's six-game increase in league wins for the best year-over-year conference win improvement in program history.
- Put the Horned Frogs within three victories of matching the 1978-79 Horned Frogs squad for the program's largest overall year-over-year win improvement.
- Make Mark Campbell TCU's winningest first-year head coach.
- Count as Campbell's 298th women's basketball victory in either a head or assistant coaching capacity.
- Position TCU to avoid the first round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
- Be TCU's 187th as a Big 12 member.
- Signify the sixth time in 47 seasons of existence TCU has won 15 home games in a season.
- Give TCU 15 regular season home victories for the third time ever and first since 2009-10.
Meeting: 64th
All-Time Series: Texas Tech leads, 49-14
Since joining Big 12: TCU leads, 13-12
Date Series Began: Feb. 2, 1980
Last Game Played: Jan. 27, 2024
Last Meeting: Texas Tech won, 71-65
Current Win Streak: Texas Tech, W4
TCU at Home: 8-18
TCU on the Road: 5-23
TCU on a Neutral Court: 1-8
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 21, (Jan. 13, 2016)
Largest Margin of Victory by Texas Tech: 59 (March 4, 1983)
Longest Winning Streak by TCU: 4, (Jan. 7, 2018-Feb. 6, 2019)
Longest Winning Streak by Texas Tech: 37 (Feb. 2, 1980-Dec. 22, 1999)
Series Since TCU Joined Big 12
TCU Record in Series: 13-12
TCU at Home: 8-3
TCU on the Road: 4-8
TCU on a Neutral Court: 1-1
Series Notes: Texas Tech
- TCU drained 13 threes and shot a season-best 65 percent from behind the arc at Texas Tech in January. Agnes Emma-Nnopu led all scorers with 19 points and shot 3-3 from downtown.
- The Horned Frogs led 21-9 one minute into the second quarter of their 71-65 defeat in January in Lubbock. TCU erased a 12-point second half deficit to tie the game at 62-62 with 7:08 to go. TCU played the game with just seven healthy scholarship players.
- TCU is 14-11 versus the Lady Raiders in the 21st century. Texas Tech's extended winning streak at the expense of the Horned Frogs was during the teams' shared Southwest Conference era and in the charter years of the formation of the Big 12.
- TCU's Big 12 era winning percentage vs. Texas Tech (.520) is its second highest against the conference's charter members.
