Frogs Fall to Sooners, 82-78

Sunday, December 6

Fort Worth, Texas

3 p.m.

TCU

4-1,0-1Big 12

Oklahoma

2-0,1-0Big 12

Team	1	2	F
Oklahoma	39	43	82
TCU	42	36	78

Frogs Fall to Sooners, 82-78

12/6/2020 6:17:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Samuel becomes TCU's all-time leader in blocked shots

FORT WORTH – Freshman guard Mike Miles scored a season-high 21 points, but the TCU men's basketball team was unable to overcome a cold-shooting second half and fell to Oklahoma 82-78 score on Sunday inside Schollmaier Arena.

RJ Nembhard added 18 points and a team-high five assists for TCU (4-1, 0-1). Kevin Samuel led all players with 11 rebounds, and his first half blocked shot put him atop the TCU record book in career blocked shots. Austin Reaves scored a game-high 32 points, including a 16-of-18 effort from the free throw line, to lead Oklahoma (2-0, 1-0).

Seven different Frogs scored in the opening 10 minutes as TCU jumped out to a 21-14 lead. TCU stretched its lead to as many as nine and wound up leading 42-39 at the half. PJ Fuller scored 12 of his 15 points in the first half, on 5-of-6 shooting. Both teams were 15-of-30 (50 percent) from the field through the first 20 minutes of action.

The Sooners opened the second half on a 14-4 run to take their largest lead of the game at 53-46, holding the Frogs to just 1-of-13 shooting (7.7 percent) during this stretch. TCU responded with a 10-2 run, capped by a fastbreak layup and 3-pointer from Nembhard, to retake the lead at 56-55 with 11:43 remaining. Both teams continued to trade baskets over the next several minutes, but Oklahoma's Reaves scored 16 of the Sooners' final 18 points to seal the win for the Sooners.

Up Next
TCU will host Providence (3-2) on Wednesday at 4 p.m. as part of the Big 12/Big East Battle. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

Team Notes
- The Horned Frogs dropped to 4-26 all-time against Oklahoma.
- The game marked the fifth consecutive season that TCU opened Big 12 Conference play at home. The Frogs moved to 2-3 in these contests.
- TCU is now 61-19 overall and 22-16 in Big 12 games at Schollmaier Arena under Jamie Dixon.
- TCU moved to 4-1 this season and 73-14 under Dixon when leading at halftime.
- The Frogs moved to 4-1 this season and 75-23 under Jamie Dixon when outrebounding their opponent.
- The Horned Frogs recorded a season-low eight turnovers.
- TCU has won the opening tip in every game this season.
- The Frogs started with the lineup of Francisco Farabello, RJ Nembhard, PJ Fuller, Kevin Samuel and Kevin Easley Jr. for the first time this season (0-1).

Individual Notes
- Freshman Mike Miles led the Frogs in scoring with a season-high 21 points on 8-of-15 (53.3 percent) shooting, including 3-of-5 shooting from 3-point range.
- Miles joined PJ Fuller as the only freshmen in the Jamie Dixon era to score at least 20 points in a game. Fuller had 21 points against Baylor on Feb. 28 last season.
- Fuller scored 15 points, 12 of which came in the first half, on 6-of-8 shooting. He has scored in double-figures in back-to-back games.
- RJ Nembhard scored 18 points and dished out a team-high five assists.
- Nembhard also led the team with a season-high two steals.
- Kevin Samuel scored four points and hauled in a team-high 11 rebounds. He has recorded at least 10 rebounds in four of his first five games to start the season.
- Samuel added a game-high three blocks to increase his career total to 174 and move him into first place alone on the TCU all-time blocked shots leaderboard. He was previously in a three-way tie for first with Vladimir Brodziansky (2015-18) and James Penny (1995-98) with 171 career blocks.
- Taryn Todd scored seven points off the bench and made his only 3-point attempt to improve his season 3-point field goal percentage to 50 percent (6-of-12).
- Redshirt freshman Mickey Pearson recorded season-highs in minutes (20), points (5), rebounds (6), blocks (2) and steals (1).