TCU begins three-game road swing at BYU Thursday
1/30/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
RV/RV TCU vs -/RV BYU
Date: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
Time: 8:00 p.m. CT
Location: Provo, Utah
Arena: Marriott Center (22,700)
TV: CSTV
Radio: 88.7 KTCU, gofrogs.com
Live Stats: gofrogs.com
Jan. 30, 2007
PROVO, Utah - After claiming convincing home victories over New Mexico (67-43) and San Diego State (83-57) last week, the TCU women,s basketball team will begin a three-game road trip on Thursday with a nationally-televised tilt against BYU at 8 p.m. CT. The game will be played in Provo, Utah, at the Marriott Center (22,700) and will be televised by CSTV (Direct TV channel 610, Dish Network channel 152).
RV/RV TCU (15-6, 5-2 Mountain West Conference) is currently fourth in the conference and is bidding for its second conference road win of the season after dropping its last two road games at Utah and Wyoming. -/RV BYU (15-5, 6-1 MWC) is in second place after falling at Utah on Saturday. Similar to the Lady Frogs who are 12-0 at home, the Cougars are also undefeated at home with an 8-0 record.
Thursday's game on CSTV will have Ann Schatz (play-by-play) and Brenda VanLengen (analyst) on the call. CSTV is in over 52 million homes nationwide and is in its first year of a multi-year deal that gives CSTV exclusive rights to MWC sporting events. The audio broadcast can also be heard on 88.7 KTCU and www.gofrogs.com with Jeff Williams calling the action. Live stats from the game are also available on www.gofrogs.com.
BYU leads the all-time series 6-2 and the Cougars have won three straight over TCU. The Lady Frogs are 1-2 all-time at BYU with their lone victory coming on Nov. 29, 2003, when TCU defeated BYU 79-74.
Following the BYU game, TCU will continue its three-game road trip with a game at UNLV on Saturday and a contest at Colorado State on Feb. 7. TCU is 1-4 on the road this season with its lone victory coming at Air Force on Jan. 11.
Scouting BYU
BYU is 15-5 overall and in second place in the Mountain West with a 6-1 record. Prior to a 64-54 loss at first-place Utah on Saturday, the Cougars had won six in a row and 11 out of 12.
BYU leads the league in field-goal percentage (43.1) and field-goal percentage defense (35.1). The Cougars are also second in the league in rebounding margin (+4.8) and pace the league with an average of 15.70 assists.
The Cougars won all three matchups with TCU last season. In Provo last season, BYU won 73-56 on Feb. 25. In addition to the two regular season meetings, the two teams met in the semifinals of the MWC Tournament where BYU won 63-53.
Last season, BYU posted its best record in school history with a mark of 26-6. The team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to Oklahoma.
Leading the Cougars is Jeff Judkins, who was the MWC Coach of the Year in 2006 and has an overall record of 118-57 in six years at BYU.
BYU was picked to finish second in the league and is led by preseason All-MWC selection Dani Wright, who leads the team in scoring (12.9) and is tied for the lead in rebounding with an average of 6.4.
Winning with Style
TCU may be 12-0 at home this season, but the most impressive stat may be the fact that the Lady Frogs just aren,t winning at home - they are winning with ease. In four conference home games, TCU is winning by an average of 31.25 points and in all 12 games, TCU is winning by 20.0 points. In fact, only one home game has been decided by fewer than 11 points this season and that was a 71-67 win over UTA on Dec. 10.
TCU has outscored opponents 947-707 at home and has won by at least 22 points in each of the last six home games.
Road Warriors
TCU,s 1-4 road record to begin the season should not be alarming when you consider the Lady Frogs, road start each of the last eight seasons. Despite slow starts, has consistently rebounded and has advanced to the NCAA Tournament each of the last six seasons.
TCU's Road Starts under Jeff Mittie
Season Road Record (5 gms) Final Road Record Overall Record2006-07 1-4 - -2005-06 3-2 6-5 19-122004-05 1-4 4-7 23-102003-04 4-1 10-3 25-72002-03 0-5 2-12 20-142001-02 3-2 7-3 24-72000-01 4-1 8-4 25-81999-00 0-5 3-7 16-14
A Streak Unmatched
Daniel-Meyer Coliseum is supposed to be a friendly place to play for the Lady Frogs, but it has been especially friendly over the last two seasons. TCU currently has a 17-game home winning streak - the longest in school history - and is off to the best home start in program history with 12 straight wins. TCU hasn,t lost at home since a 67-64 setback to BYU on Jan. 25, 2006. The longest previous streak was 12 straight during the 2000-01 season. TCU,s 17-game winning streak is the ninth-longest in NCAA Division I.
Rk. School Next Game Date Streak1 LSU 2/08/2007 422 Bowling Green 2/04/2007 263 Ohio St. 2/04/2007 254 Charlotte 2/08/2007 215 James Madison 2/01/2007 226 Marist 2/09/2007 207 Louisville 2/03/2007 18 North Carolina 2/08/2007 189 TCU 2/10/2007 17
Ross Named MWC Co-Player of the Week
Junior guard Adrianne Ross was named the Mountain West Conference Co-Player of the Week on Jan. 29 for her performance in wins against New Mexico (67-43) and San Diego State (83-57). For the week she averaged 17.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 3.5 steals.
Against the Lobos, the Hobbs, N.M., native posted the first double-double of her career and was two assists shy of just the second triple-double in TCU history. Ross scored 16 points, grabbed a career-best 11 rebounds and matched a career high with eight assists. She also had five steals in the contest.
In the same game, Ross became the ninth player in TCU history to tally 1,000 points in her career.
Playing San Diego State on Sunday, Ross had a game-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting and had three rebounds, three assists and two steals.
The honor is the first of Ross' career and it is the third this season for the Lady Frogs (15-6, 5-2 MWC). Teammate Ashley Davis received player of the week honors on Dec. 4 and Dec. 26.
Sharing the honors as co-recipient with Ross was Utah guard Morgan Warburton.
On the week, Ross shot 10-for-24 (.417) from the floor and was 13-of-19 from the free-throw line. She totaled 34 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists and seven steals.
