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TEMPE, Ariz. – No. 10 will go for a season sweep of the Arizona schools when it visits Tempe on Wednesday to battle the Sun Devils for the first time ever on the
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GoFrogs: No. 10 TCU at Arizona State WBB Preview
TEMPE, Ariz. – No. 10 will go for a season sweep of the Arizona schools when it visits Tempe on Wednesday to battle the Sun Devils for the first time ever on the hardwood.

The Horned Frogs returned to the top 10 of The Associated Press poll on Monday following a one-week hiatus. TCU is tied with No. 19 Baylor for first place in the Big 12 standings with four regular season games remaining. The Frogs currently hold the tiebreaker with the Bears for the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Championship by virtue of their 80-75 win on Jan. 26.

Arizona State has dropped 11 straight games ahead of Wednesday's tilt.

The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (24-3, 12-2 Big 12) at Arizona State (8-18, 2-12 Big 12)
Date: 7:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Feb. 19
Location: Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz.

Game Coverage
Television
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Radio
88.7 KTCU FM

Opening Tip
  • TCU and Arizona State have never met on the hardwood.
  • TCU will tie for the most wins in a season in program history with a victory in Tempe.
  • The Horned Frogs will pick up a program record sixth Big 12 road victory should they defeat ASU.
  • TCU is 7-2 in road or neutral site affairs.
  • TCU has won 16 of its last 19 conference games and seven of its last 10 on the road.
  • The Horned Frogs have led at halftime in all 14 of their league tilts.
  • TCU has held eight of 10 teams under their season scoring average in road or neutral site games.
  • Sedona Prince is the lone player averaging a double-double in Big 12 road games. She averages 17.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game in conference road affairs.
Frog Focus
  • TCU achieved its fifth top 10 ranking in The Associated Press poll this season and all-time on Monday. The No. 10 billing is the second-highest AP Top 25 rank in TCU basketball history.
  • TCU continues to lead the nation in 3-pointers (268) and ranks seventh in 3-pointers per game (9.9).
  • The Frogs hit at least nine 3-pointers for the 18th time in Sunday's win at Arizona. Only Arkansas State (20) and Tennessee (19) have more games with at least nine 3-pointers.
  • TCU has drained the fourth-most 3-pointers (580) of any team over the last two seasons.
  • The Horned Frogs are 89 three-pointers away from setting a Big 12 single season record.
  • TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top 15 in the nation in both field goal percentage (12th, .474) and 3-point percentage (13th, .374). The others are No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 12 Kansas State.
  • TCU dished out at least 20 assists for the 13th game this season in Tucson, finishing with 21. The Horned Frogs are undefeated this season and 22-1 in the Mark Campbell era when dishing out 20-or-more dimes.
  • TCU continues to be one of only three teams in the country ranking in the top 10 nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.71), assists (6th, 523) and assists per game (8th, 19.4).
  • Four players have scored in double figures for TCU in three straight games and 11 times this season. TCU is unbeaten in 2024-25 and 20-1 under Campbell when four players finish with 10-plus points.
  • TCU has kept 21 of a possible 25 teams under their season scoring average and prevented 12 foes from scoring 50 points in 2024-25.
  • Sedona Prince, Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner are the third-highest scoring trio in America, averaging a combined 49.4 points per game. They make TCU one of four teams with multiple players scoring at least 15 points per game on average.
  • Prince, Van Lith and Conner account for 64 percent of TCU's scoring (679-1,054 points) in Big 12 play. They have teamed up for 60-plus points in four conference games and eight times overall.
  • Prince and Van Lith are two of 20 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award.
  • Prince has scored 20-plus points in 12 of her 19 career Big 12 games and in eight of 13 this season.
  • Prince, netted her ninth career double-double in a Big 12 game at Arizona, finishing with 22 points, 12 rebounds and five assists. TCU is 18-2 in games where she finishes with a double-double.
  • Prince is one of two D1 players averaging at least 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
  • Conner continues to lead the country in 3-pointers with 97.
  • Conner has drilled four-or-more 3-pointers in 15 games, the most of any player in America.
  • Conner is shooting 47.5 percent from deep (75-158) over her last 16 games and 48 percent in Big 12 play.
  • Van Lith is averaging 18.2 points and 6.2 assists per game across TCU's 10 road or neutral site affairs. She has netted at least 15 points and five assists in six of TCU's games away from home.
  • Van Lith has finished with 15 points and five assists in 13 games this season. Only Kentucky's Georgia Amoore (15) has more 15-and-five games.
  • Van Lith is one of four players averaging at least 17 points and 5.5 assists per game.
  • Aaliyah Roberson is averaging 11.5 points per game over TCU's last four contests. The 6-2 junior scored a season-high 18 points on 7-9 shooting vs. Arizona
  • Roberson is shooting 58 percent from the floor (36-62) and 57 percent (20-35) behind the arc over her last 17 outings. She leads all D1 posts in effective field goal percentage (.706).
  • Donovyn Hunter has produced a 3-1 assist-to-turnover ratio (18-6) over her last three games.
  • Agnes Emma-Nnopu leads all Big 12 guards in offensive rebounding (58, 2.3 per game) and ranks 19th nationally in offensive boards among players 5-11-or-shorter.
  • Deasia Merrill averages 8.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game when playing at least 10 minutes.
A Win Over the Sun Devils Would…
  • Tie for the most victories in a season in program history.
  • Mark the third time TCU has won 25 games in a season.
  • Send the Horned Frogs to their 13th conference victory and tie the 2019-20 TCU women's basketball team for the most Big 12 wins in school history.
  • Maintain a share of first place in the Big 12 standings.
  • Increase Mark Campbell's combined year-over-year win improvement to 39 games across his four seasons as a head coach.
  • Count as the Horned Frogs' 99th all-time Big 12 victory ad 34th on the road.
  • Boost TCU's record in league games in the month of February to 8-4 in the Campbell era.
  • Lift the Horned Frogs to their 46th victory in the last two seasons, which are the second-most in a two-year period in program history.
  • Punctuate a season sweep of the Big 12's four newcomers.
 
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Series Notes: Arizona State
  • Wednesday's ballgame marks only the third time the Horned Frogs have played in the state of Arizona.
  • TCU is 8-1 against conference newcomers over the last two seasons.
  • Nearly half of the Horned Frogs' roster has played Arizona State at a previous school. Six of TCU's 14 players have faced the Sun Devils at least once; Taylor Bigby; Madison Conner, Agnes Emma-Nnopu, Donovyn Hunter, Sedona Prince and Maddie Scherr.
  • Prince finished with 13 points and six rebounds in her most recent visit to Tempe on Feb. 6, 2022, as a redshirt sophomore at Oregon.
  • Agnes Emma-Nnopu finished with 17 points and five rebounds in her last head-to-head vs. Arizona State on Feb. 12, 2023, during her junior season at Stanford. Her 17 points scored were a career high during her four seasons in Palo Alto and are her fourth-most in a game all-time.
  • Madison Conner's hometown is Chandler, Ariz., which is about a 20-minute drive from Tempe. The 5-11 guard played her first three high school seasons at Perry HS. She averaged 20 points, seven rebounds and more than three assists per game while connecting at a 40 percent clip from downtown her junior year. She led Perry to the 2020 6A Arizona State semifinals as a sophomore.
  • TCU head coach Mark Campbell went 5-5 vs. Arizona across his seven-year run as an assistant or associate head coach at Oregon from 2014-21.
  • In total, eight members of the 2024-25 TCU women's basketball team have played in Tempe. Assistant coaches Minyon Moore and Nia Jackson faced Arizona State during their playing careers at USC and Oregon.
  • TCU is 14-23 all-time against current or former members of the Pac-12 Conference.
 
JogginFrog

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From a Bracketology piece in The Athletic (paywall) today: "Barring unforeseen circumstances, I anticipate the Big 12 being absent from the top two seed lines. The committee seems to value early wins less, which puts the conference (and particularly TCU) in a tough spot. I’d also wager that the degree to which TCU lost to South Carolina played a significant factor — a tough stroke of luck for the Big 12."

I say that's an excellent explanation for TCU being slotted behind NC State. "But NC State is playing better now" is the only justification for placing a team with a worse overall record, worse best-win and a head-to-head loss ahead of TCU. Committee has probably only seen two TCU games all year: South Carolina and K State.
 
JogginFrog

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MadFrog said:
They act like they are road weary. I wonder if they came home after the Arizona game or stayed there.
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ASU with one turnover in the first half. TCU defense needs a little more aggression.

Edit: Also, HVL needs to show restraint on the 3-pointers. She's not good from deep. Frogs are a half-point worse per possession when she shoots those.

Edit2: Also, Conner may be trying too hard in front of the hometown crowd. Expect she'll heat up in the second half. It's the time of year when TCU needs to blow out bad teams.
 
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JogginFrog

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Balanced scoring--all 5 starters in double figures. But the national media will only see that the Frogs can't beat a 2-12 team by 20 points.
 

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