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FORT WORTH – TCU will look to beat mother nature and the Jayhawks when it treks north for a midweek Big 12 matchup.
GoFrogs: No. 11 TCU at Kansas Preview
FORT WORTH – TCU will look to beat mother nature and the Jayhawks when it treks north for a midweek Big 12 matchup.
The 11th-ranked Horned Frogs face Kansas at 2 p.m on Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse. The ballgame was initially scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. tip on Tuesday but was postponed due to winter weather plaguing the Great Plains region.
At 15-1 overall and 3-0 to begin league play, TCU is enjoying its best start to a season and in Big 12 action in program history. The Frogs have won seven of their last eight conference games dating back to February of 2024.
Wednesday's game will be the 28th all-time meeting between TCU and Kansas. TCU holds a 16-12 edge in the all-time series vs. the Jayhawks.
The Game
Teams: No. 11 TCU (15-1, 3-0 Big 12) at Kansas (11-3, 1-2 Big 12)
Date: 2 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Jan. 8
Location: Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan.
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
- Josh Klingler, Play-by-Play
- Brenda VanLengen, Analyst
88.7 KTCU FM
- Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
- TCU is off to its best start to a season and in Big 12 play in program history.
- TCU has won three of its last four Big 12 road bouts dating back to February of 2024.
- The Horned Frogs are 8-2 over their last 10 conference affairs.
- TCU is searching for its second four-game Big 12 winning streak under head coach Mark Campbell.
- The Horned Frogs are 16-12 all-time vs. the Jayhawks - their best record against original members of the Big 12.
- TCU is 5-6 all-time inside Allen Fieldhouse.
- The Frogs notched a Campbell-era record 92 percent assist rate (23-25) in last season's tussle with the Jayhawks. Agnes Emma-Nnopu, Aaliyah Roberson and Una Jovanovic all scored in double figures in the program's third game back following injury-induced open tryouts.
- TCU achieved its second top 10 ranking in The Associated Press poll this season and in program history on Monday. The Frogs have been the highest-ranked Big 12 team for five straight weeks.
- The Horned Frogs extended their program-record run of consecutive AP Top 15 rankings to six polls.
- TCU checked in at eighth in the NCAA NET rankings following Saturday's win against Cincinnati. Only Kansas State has a better ranking at seventh among Big 12 teams than the Horned Frogs.
- TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top-20 nationally in scoring offense (20th, 82.6 ppg), scoring defense (11th, 52.9), field goal percentage (18th, .478) and field goal percentage defense (12th, 3.46).
- TCU is one of three teams alongside UConn and K-State ranking in the top-five nationally in assists (3rd, 326), assist-to-turnover ratio (4th, 1.81) and assists per game (5th, 20.4).
- The Horned Frogs dished out 20 assists for the 10th time this season vs. Cincinnati, finishing with 21.
- TCU has produced an assist rate of 75 percent or better 15 times under Mark Campbell.
- TCU shot 9-18 from deep vs. the Bearcats, marking the 30th time in the Campbell era the Horned Frogs have connected nine-plus times from distance.
- TCU has connected at least 12 times behind the arc in 16 games over the last two seasons, a mark that ranks third among all D1 programs.
- The Horned Frogs rank fourth in the country in total threes over the last two seasons with 476. TCU is also one of just 11 teams overall and three at the Power Conference level alongside Iowa and Utah averaging at least nine 3-pointers per game in that span.
- TCU has held 13 of 15 opponents below their season scoring average.
- TCU ranks 10th in the country in scoring margin (+29.6).
- Hailey Van Lith, Madison Conner and Sedona Prince are the nation's fourth-highest scoring trio, averaging 52 points per game. They make TCU one of just four teams with three players averaging at least 16.5 points per game.
- Van Lith, Prince and Conner have combined for 50-or-more points in the same game nine times.
- Conner and Prince teamed up for 50 points in Saturday's win, their most combined points in a Big 12 game. Their efforts marked the 14th time TCU has had two players score 20 points in a Big 12 game.
- Conner tallied 29 points and converted 6-9 attempts behind the arc vs. Cincinnati. She leads the NCAA in games with five-plus 3-pointers over the last two seasons with 13.
- Conner ranks fourth nationally in 3-point percentage (.454) among players with at least 40 makes.
- Conner ranks second in the country in 3-pointers (64) and 3-pointers per game (4.0).
- Conner is shooting 50 percent (24-48) from deep over her last five games.
- Prince is averaging 18.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game in Big 12 affairs.
- Prince continues to top the D1 ranks in blocks per game (3.6).
- Prince has notched at least 20 points in five of her eight career Big 12 regular season games.
- Prince ranks second among all D1 seniors and graduate students in C-RAM rating (13.8) which measures a player's total statistical performance.
- Prince is one of two D1 players averaging 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Van Lith is the lone D1 player averaging at least 17 points, six assists and 4.5 rebounds per game.
- Van Lith is dishing out 6.6 dimes per game vs top 100 teams in the NCAA NET rankings.
- Van Lith is fourth among all D1 players in total assists (97).
- Van Lith is already just 87 assists away from becoming TCU's single-season record holder for assists.
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu ranks third among all Big 12 guards 5-11-or-shorter in rebounds per game (6.2).
- Aaliyah Roberson has been a spark off the bench. She has shot 11-20 (55 percent) from the field over her last four outings. She is second among Big 12 forwards in effective field goal percentage (.644).
- Stake TCU to its eighth Big 12 win in its last nine tries.
- Hand TCU its fourth conference road victory in their last five Big 12 away affairs.
- Give TCU its fifth 4-game winning streak in Big 12 play in 13 seasons of membership.
- Send TCU to its fourth-ever 4-0 start to conference play and first since 2005-06.
- Mark the Horned Frogs' sixth-ever win in Allen Fieldhouse.
- Count as TCU's 80th all-time Big 12 win.
- Mark just the fourth time TCU has won consecutive road games in Big 12 play.
- Go down as TCU's 20th all-time road win as a ranked team and fourth in Big 12 play.
- Register the Horned Frogs' 31st all-time Big 12 road win.
- Improve TCU's record as a ranked team to 15-3 in the Campbell era.
- Boost TCU's record vs. Big 12 foes as a ranked team to 8-9.
- Lift TCU to its 10th Big 12 win under Campbell.
- TCU bounced Kansas from the first round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship and, by extension, the NCAA Tournament in its 57-52 win over the Jayhawks on March 9, 2023.
- Zahna Medley recorded the second-most assists in a game in program history with her 12-assist performance at Kansas on March 5, 2013.
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu finished with 18 points and a team-leading eight rebounds in last season's 81-74 defeat to Kansas on Feb. 3. Aaliyah Roberson and Una Jovanovic contributed 10 points apiece.
- TCU took a 61-57 lead into the final frame vs. the Jayhawks last season. It remains the only game in the Mark Campbell era the Horned Frogs have lost when leading after three quarters. TCU played the game with just six healthy scholarship players.
- TCU's 23 assists vs. Kansas last season are a Campbell era Big 12 single-game record.
