TCU Rolls Past Rice Behind Double-Doubles from Prince, Conner

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TCU Rolls Past Rice Behind Double-Doubles from Prince, Conner

11/12/2023 5:29:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Horned Frogs earn 67-42 win to move to 3-0

FORT WORTH – TCU was simply too much for Rice on Sunday.

The Horned Frogs routed the Owls 67-42 behind double-doubles from Madison Conner and Sedona Prince inside Schollmaier Arena.

TCU led by as many 28 points in a victory that propelled the program to its first 3-0 start to a season in four years.

It was among the best defensive performances TCU has pitched in recent memory. TCU held Rice, winners of 23 games in 2022-23, to a paltry 25.4 percent clip (16-63) clip from the field and allowed just two 3-pointers. The Horned Frogs finished with a 48-34 edge on the glass.

Conner and Prince accounted for more than half of TCU's rebounding output.

Prince pulled down a career-high 14 boards to pair with 18 points across 32 minutes. The Owls had no answer for the 6-7 center. Prince drew nine fouls en route to seven trips to the charity stripe.

Conner finished with 19 points and 11 boards to earn her second double-double in three games.

TCU has produced a Big 12 leading six double-doubles seven days into the season and is the only team to have multiple players finish with double-double in each of its games.

Prince is the first Horned Frog since Amy Okonkwo in 2019 to generate a double-double in three consecutive outings.

TCU never trailed outside of a 2-0 hole to begin the afternoon. A 3-pointer from Jaden Owens – TCU went 10-21 (47.6 percent) from distance – staked the Horned Frogs to a 10-4 head start with 3:41 left in the period.

Rice trimmed the deficit to one entering the second quarter but TCU began to wrest control of the contest. The Horned Frogs stuffed three shots and limited the Owls to 4-16 shooting.

TCU proceeded to blow the game wide open in the second frame behind 17-2 scoring run. Conner commenced the scoring barrage with her second-of-four first half 3-pointers to inch TCU further ahead 16-12 at the 7:42 mark of the period. Leading 18-14, the Horned Frogs then scored 12 unanswered points to effectively o put the game to bed. Prince sandwiched four of her 10 made free throws around a 3-pointer from Aaliyah Roberson (nine points, six rebounds) with 2:40 remaining in the first half. Conner punctuated the scoring surge with a long ball from the left baseline on the ensuing possession. TCU took a 35-18 advantage into the intermission

Conner operated with surgical offensive efficiency in the first half. The junior entered the locker room with 16 points on 5-10 shooting to pair with eight rebounds.

Rice briefly threatened in the third quarter, tallying eight of the period's first nine points to cut TCU's lead to 10. Agnes Emma-Nnopu promptly answered with a triple in front of the TCU bench off an assist from Jaden Owens to quell any Owls momentum. Emma-Nnopu canned two 3-pointers in the frame, her second snapping a 4:40 TCU scoring drought to stretch the Horned Frogs' lead to 46-29 with 1:38 to go.

Conner's fifth-and-final 3-pointer swelled the scoreboard to 52-30 at the 6:25 mark of the fourth quarter. Prince collected 10 of her 18 points in the final period.

Emma-Nnopu snagged eight rebounds – five offensive – while Owens racked up with nine points and a game-leading six assists.

TCU assisted on 13 of its 21 field goals.

Seven Horned Frogs finished with one block apiece.

Up Next

TCU hosts Incarnate Word at noon on Wednesday in the second game between the teams in as many seasons. The Horned Frogs routed the Cardinals 60-33 on Nov. 29 in their most recent meeting.

Team Notes

TCU has shot above 40 percent from 3-point range in all three of its victories his season.
Fourteen of TCU's 48 rebounds came on the offensive glass.
The Horned Frogs have now won 36 straight games when holding teams to 50 points or less. Head coach Mark Campbell's teams are now 10-0 when preventing teams from eclipsing the 50-point threshold.
The Horned Frogs improved their record inside Schollmaier Arena to 90-50 all-time and 25-4 in November games
TCU's 42 points allowed were its fewest surrendered in a game since pitching a 75-32 defeat of Nicholls on Dec. 21.
TCU has now held teams to 50-or-fewer points in consecutive games for the first time since downing Grambling and Nicholls on Dec. 18-21.
The Horned Frogs have snagged 48 rebounds in each of their last two outings.
TCU is assisting on 65 percent (51-79) of its field goals this season

Individual Notes

Mark Campbell became the second head coach in program history and first since Mike Petersen in 1996-97 to win his first three games in purple and white.
Prince played a career-high 32 minutes in the win.
Prince now has five double-doubles for her career
Emma-Nnopu's five offensive boards were a career-best.
Roberson pulled down a career-high six rebounds as TCU's "sixth player" for the second straight night.
Owens is averaging 6.7 assists through her first three games as a Horned Frogs.
Owens has now assisted on five-or-more buckets in 23 of her last 35 outings
Conner has entered halftime with 15-or-more points in all three TCU victories.
Conner matched her career-high on the glass with 11 rebounds.
TCU was without Paige Bradley, Knisha Godfrey and Sydney Harris due to injury.