Women's Hoops Set to Host Texas Southern
11/21/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
FORT WORTH, Texas - The TCU women's basketball team will play host to Texas Southern at 7 p.m., on Saturday at the University Recreation Center. Tickets will be available prior to Saturday's contest on a walk-up basis at the ticket window.
FOLLOW LIVE
Fans can listen to Saturday's contest on the radio broadcast on KTCU 88.7 and FrogVision with Jeff Williams on the call, as well as viewing the contest on FrogVision.
For live updates, fans can follow @tcuwbasketball on Twitter or by viewing GameTracker.
THE OPPONENT
Texas Southern will meet its third-straight Big 12 opponent in Saturday's contests with the Horned Frogs, suffering defeats to Oklahoma State (58-77) and Kansas (44-69) top open the season.
The Lady Tigers, who claimed 20 wins last season and earned a trip to the WNIT, have averaged 51.0 points in the first two games while allowing 73.0 points to the opposition. Texas Southern is shooting 34 percent from the field while grabbing 32.0 rebounds (-11.0 margin) and forcing 20.0 turnovers with 90 steals per game.
Junior guard Brianna Sidney leads the Lady Tigers with 12.0 points off the bench, while senior forward Morgan Simmons has added 10.0 points and 8.5 rebounds in the season's first two contests.
THE SERIES
TCU and Texas Southern will meet for the sixth time in the all-time series and the first time since the 2011-12 season, as the Horned Frogs have claimed all five previous matchups.
TCU posted a 66-38 victory over the Lady Tigers in the last meeting between the two schools on Dec. 31, 2011, as current senior Natalie Ventress led the squad with 15 points and seven rebounds. The Frogs have claimed four of the five wins in Fort Worth.
UP NEXT
Following Saturday's contest against Texas Southern, the Horned Frogs will return to the road for the OMNI Classic in Boulder, Colo., on Nov. 28-29. TCU will meet Colorado State in the first game on Friday before facing either Colorado or Missouri State on Saturday.
TCU will then return home for five contests at the Recreation Center in the month of December, beginning with Texas A&M on Dec. 7.
LAST TIME OUT
TCU improved to 2-1 overall this season with a 73-63 victory over cross-town rival SMU on Wednesday at the Recreation Center.
The Horned Frogs scored 36 points off of 25 SMU turnovers while going 32-of-34 (94 percent) from the free-throw line en route to their ninth win over the Mustangs in the last 13 meetings.
Wednesday's contest also saw history made, as junior guard Zahna Medley became the 14th member of TCU's 1,000-point club and the fastest in program history to reach the milestone.
Senior forward Chelsea Prince matched Medley's offensive output on Wednesday with a career-best 18 points while equaling her previous career mark of 12 rebounds for her second double-double in the season's first three contests.
Junior guard Alexia Standish also scored in double figures with 10 points while senior guard Donielle Breaux added eight points, eight points and a career-best six steals.
MEDLEY HITS MILESTONE
Junior guard Zahna Medley made history in Wednesday's win over SMU, scoring 18 points to become the 14th member of TCU's 1,000-point club and the fastest in program history to reach the milestone.
Wednesday marked the second time Medley has reached a milestone against the Mustangs, as the Springfield, Ill., native tied a school record with nine 3-pointers in just her fourth collegiate contest on Nov. 28, 2012.
A PRINCE EMERGES
Senior forward Chelsea Prince came into her own down the stretch last season and has carried that over into her final season in the Purple and White, averaging a double-double with 11.3 points and 10.0 rebounds through the season's first three contests.
The Fort Worth native, who has started 19 straight contests, posted a career outing in TCU's 61-60 road win over No. 23 Iowa State last season with a then-career best 17 points. Prince entered the contest with career averages of 4.7 points and 3.2 rebounds and has averaged 10.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.7 steals in the 15 games since, including her first three-career double-doubles.
