Horned Frogs Open Season with 66-61 Victory Over Robert Morris

Tuesday, November 5

Fort Worth, Texas

12 p.m.

TCU

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Robert Morris

0-1,0-0NEC

Robert Morris

TCU

Horned Frogs Open Season with 66-61 Victory Over Robert Morris

11/5/2019 4:27:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Woods and Heard post 20-point efforts in the win

FORT WORTH – Senior Jayde Woods and junior Lauren Heard poured in 20 points each to lead the TCU women's basketball team to a 66-61 season-opening win over Robert Morris, Tuesday afternoon at Schollmaier Arena.

THE RUNDOWN
Kianna Ray also notched double-digits with a 12-point effort, but her steal-and-score with 11 seconds remaining sealed the victory for the Horned Frogs.

After relinquishing its first lead with just a little under three minutes to play in the third quarter and then trailing 50-47 following the end of the period, TCU opened the final quarter of play with an 11-4 run.

A 58-54 lead later turned into just a 63-61 advantage, but Ray managed to record the biggest play of the game as she collected a steal at TCU's own end of the floor and then made the easy lay-up to go up by four, 65-61, with 11.2 seconds showing on the clock.

TCU outscored the Colonials 22-11 in the first quarter, but its 11-point lead dwindled to just a two-point advantage at the half, 32-30. RMU led at the end of three periods, 50-47, but the 11-4 run to open the fourth quarter was just what the Frogs needed to get back into the game and earn the "W".

STAT OF THE GAME
20/10 – Jayde Woods registered her first career double-double with 20 points and 10 boards. Both were new career-highs for the senior, as well.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
TCU Head Coach Raegan Pebley
"There were some mistakes there in the game, but I thought the team adapted and adjusted. They figured some things out and we were able to keep our communicators out on the floor to help us be effective defensively. I think, really, the game came down to the fourth quarter. Just loose ball plays. Experienced players making plays and finishing games out with hustle. Obviously the big one at the end with Kianna [Ray] and her steal at the end of the game, but also just Jayde flying out creating a possession for us. We had offensive rebounds. Defensive rebounds. Just a concerted effort all around."

UP NEXT
TCU will host Cornell at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10.

TCU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
Nov. 5, 2019 – Fort Worth, Texas (Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena)
Attendance: 3,922
TCU (1-0) – 65
Robert Morris (0-1) – 61

WITH THE VICTORY …
• TCU won its sixth straight season-opener under head coach Raegan Pebley.
• TCU won its seventh consecutive season-opener overall.
• TCU won 17 of the past 20 season-openers.
• TCU moved to 1-0 all-time against Robert Morris.
• TCU improved to 4-0 all-time against Northeastern Conference (NEC) opponents.
• TCU won for the fourth straight time inside Schollmaier Arena.
• TCU improved to 8-2 at Schollmaier Arena in its last 10 games.
• Head coach Raegan Pebley moved to 96-71 at TCU and 252-246 overall in her career.

TEAM NOTES
• TCU started with a lineup of Jaycee Bradley, Jayde Woods, Lauren Heard, Kianna Ray and Adeola Akomalafe.
• Today's attendance was 3,922, TCU's highest for a home game since it had 3,844 in attendance against Baylor last season (Jan. 12, 2019).
• TCU has won eight consecutive season-openers, which includes all six season-opening contests under head coach Raegan Pebley.
• Since 1998-99, TCU is 20-3 in season-openers.
• The Horned Frogs led for 30:16 overall, while RMU led for just 6Z:37 in the game.
• TCU yielded its first lead at the 2:56 mark of the third quarter (45-44). The Horned Frogs took back the lead (55-52) at the 6:32 mark with a three-pointer from Kianna Ray and did not relinquish the lead.
• TCU shot .500 percent from the field in the first quarter, .273 in the second quarter, .357 in the third quarter and .385 in the fourth quarter. The Horned Frogs finished shooting .385 (20-52) overall for the game.
• The Horned Frogs shot .333 (5-15) from three-point range and .656 (21-32) from the free throw line.
• TCU scored 19 points off 22 RMU turnovers.
• RMU won the battle of the boards 37-31, but TCU tallied 15 second-chance points to RMU's nine second-chance points in the game.
• TCU tallied 13 steals, nearly four steals better than last season's average of 9.5 steals per game. It marked TCU's highest steal total in a game since posting 16 steals at West Virginia last season (Feb. 16, 2019).
• Head coach Raegan Pebley improved to 252-246 overall and 96-71 at TCU. She is now just four wins shy from becoming just the second coach in TCU history to eclipse the 100-win mark.

PLAYER NOTES
• Jayde Woods totaled career highs in both points (20) and rebounds (10), while also collecting her first career double-double.
• Woods led the team at the free throw line, draining 10-of-11 from the charity stripe.
• Six of Woods' 10 rebounds were offensive boards.
• Lauren Heard also posted 20 points in the game giving the Horned Frogs two players with at least 20 points for the first time since Amy Okwonko (22) and Jordan Moore (20) did so against Idaho back on Nov. 25, 2017.
• This was Heard's third career 20-point game overall and first since her career-high 27-point effort against Iowa State on Feb. 13, 2019.
• Kianna Ray scored 12 points and tallied a team-high four steals. She now has 151 steals in her career.
• Ray scored in double-figures for the 32nd time of her career, Heard did it for the 17th time and Woods posted 10+ points for the 11th time overall.
• Michelle Berry (6 points) and Jaycee Bradley (2 points) made their Horned Frog debuts on Tuesday. Bradley was in the starting line-up, playing 14:49, while Berry came off the bench playing for a total of 26:03 minutes.