TCU-Utah Postgame Notes
2/11/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 11, 2010
POSTGAME NOTES
No. 24 TCU 105, Utah 96
Salt Lake City, Utah (Huntsman Center)
Feb. 10, 2010
Attendence: 1,150
-TCU improved to 18-5 on the season and 8-2 in Mountain West Conference play. The 18-5 record matches the second-best 23-game start in school history.
-TCU's 105 points were the most ever scored by a team in a Mountain West Conference game. The previous record of 98 was set twice, including by Wyoming in a 98-37 win over Air Force earlier this season.
-TCU improved to 2-1 all-time in four-overtime games. The Frogs lost their first such affair to SMU, 127-125, back on Jan. 25, 1996 and took a 125-119 decision over East Carolina on Feb. 13, 2004. Tonight's game was TCU's first multi-overtime game since that win over ECU.
-TCU has won 10 straight games in which it has scored 100 points dating back to that four-overtime loss to SMU.
-The 201 points marked the third-most combined points ever in a TCU game.
-Utah became the first team this season to shoot over 50.0 percent from the field against TCU. Kansas (47.5 percent) owned the previous high shooting rate.
-Eboni Mangum set a career high with 25 points. She had scored her previous high of 17 points three times in her career.
-Emily Carter also set a career high with 25 points, breaking her previous best of 24 recorded three times. The performance marked her seventh career 20-point outing, including her fifth this season.
-Helena Sverrisdottir reached 20 points for the fourth time this season and the 13th time in her career.
-Three Frogs played more than 50 minutes Wednesday in Helena Sverrisdottir (58), Emily Carter (56) and Mangum (52). Starr Crawford and TK LaFleur both played 40 minutes.
-Starr Crawford recorded her fourth double-double of the season.
-Kaylee Whipple's 45 points marked a TCU single-game opponent record, breaking the previous mark of 44 points by Lamar's Lara Webb on March 3, 1996. Her seven 3-pointers tied for the second most ever made against the Lady Frogs.
-TCU made more free throws (25) than the opponent attempted (24) for the sixth time in the last seven games.
-The Frogs posted a 36-10 advantage in points off turnovers.
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