Horned Frogs Dominate Tigers, 90-55

Tuesday, December 21

Fort Worth, Texas

7 p.m.

TCU

10-1,0-0Big 12

Grambling State

3-9,0-0SWAC

Grambling

TCU

Horned Frogs Dominate Tigers, 90-55

12/21/2021 10:34:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Baugh, Miller each record a double-double. O'Bannon leads all players with 19 points.

FORT WORTH - A pair of double-doubles and a strong rebounding effort led the TCU men's basketball team to its largest scoring output of the season in a 90-55 win over Grambling State Tuesday at Schollmaier Arena.

The Horned Frogs (10-1) outrebounded the Tigers (3-9), 52-21, to win its seventh-straight game. It was TCU's largest rebounding margin in 19 seasons.

Without the services of Mike Miles (sick) and Xavier Cork (foot), four Horned Frogs scored in double-figures led by Chuck O'Bannon's career-high 19 points. He was 4-of-8 from 3-point range, a big part of the Frogs' 11 made threes as a team.

Emanuel Miller recorded his fourth double-double of the season with a season-high 18 points and 10 rebounds. Damion Baugh had his first-career double-double with 13 points and 11 assists. JaKobe Coles scored 12 points and was one of six different TCU players to drain a 3-pointer.

TCU led 20-17 with 11:03 to play before the Frogs went on an 18-2 run to take a commanding 41-21 lead with just over three minutes left in the half. TCU led 47-28 at the break, its most points in a half this season.

TCU never trailed by more than its 19-point margin at the half and led by as many as 39 with less than a minute to play. All 11 available players saw at least two minutes of action, including walk-ons Cole Despie, Darius Ford and Harrison Young.

The Horned Frogs return to action on Dec. 29 when they host Texas Southern at 3 p.m. The game will be shown on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.

Team Notes

TCU improved to 13-0 all-time against Grambling State.
TCU improved to 40-1 all-time against the SWAC.
TCU outscored Grambling State by 35 which is the Frogs' largest margin of victory since Dec. 7, 2018 against USC (96-61).
TCU scored its most points of the season with 90.
TCU's 47 points in the first half was its most points in a half this season.
TCU won its seventh-straight game. Its longest win streak since winning eight-straight during the 2018-19 season.
TCU's 10-1 record is its best since a 12-1 start to the 2018-19 season.
TCU outrebounded Grambling State, 52-21. TCU is 9-0 this season and 90-26 under Dixon when outrebounding its opponent.
TCU recorded a season-high 21 assists.
TCU tied a season-high in 3-pointers made with 11. TCU also had 11 in its last game against Georgetown.
TCU outrebounded Grambling State by 31. It's the largest rebounding margin for a TCU team since Dec. 20, 2002 when TCU outrebounded Grambling State by 32 (63-31).
Under Dixon (since 2016-17), TCU has gone 30-7 in the month of December.
Under Dixon, TCU is 68-11 against nonconference teams.

Individual Notes

Damion Baugh recorded his first-career double-double with 13 points and 11 assists. He's the first TCU player to record a double-double with points and assists since Alex Robinson had 13 points and 11 assists on March 20, 2019 against Sam Houston State in the first round of the NIT. Robinson in that game was also the last time a TCU player recorded 11 assists in a game.
Emanuel Miller recorded his 12th-career double-double, fourth on the year, with his season-high 18 points and 10 rebounds.
TCU had two double-doubles in the same game for the first time since Dec. 22, 2019 against Xavier. Desmond Bane had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Kevin Samuel had 14 points and 11 rebounds.
Chuck O'Bannon had a career-high 19 points. He was 4-8 from 3-point range which was a career-high for makes.
O'Bannon had a season-high eight rebounds.
Souleymane Doumbia set career highs in points (9), rebounds (6), 3-pointers (1), free-throws (2) and minutes (19).
Micah Peavy was 2-3 from 3-point range which is a career-high for attempts and makes.
Francisco Farabello tied his season-high with 29 minutes played. He scored eight points and had five rebounds.