TCU
UTRGV
Preview: vs. UTRGV
11/13/2023 6:24:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Horned Frogs host Vaqueros Tuesday at 7 p.m.
NOTES
- TCU (2-0) hosts its third-straight game on Tuesday at 7 p.m. against UTRGV (1-1) in Schollmaier Arena.
- It's TCU's annual Teddy Bear Toss game. Fans will bring teddy bears to throw on the court at halftime and later be donated to Hope Farm.
- With a win on Tuesday, the Horned Frogs would have their eighth-straight 3-0 start to a season.
- TCU signed the nation's 11th-best recruiting class on national signing day on Nov. 8.
- TCU was picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 in a poll voted on by the league's coaches.
- TCU is receiving votes in the AP Top 25. TCU was No. 22 in the final ranking of the 2022-23 season.
- Last season, TCU went 22-13 overall and 9-9 in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight year for the first time in 70 seasons.
- Emanuel Miller was one of five players named Preseason All-Big 12 Conference.
- Miller averaged 12.3 points and 6.5 rebounds last season, which are the second-most returning points and rebounds in the Big 12 Conference.
- Miller joins JaKobe Coles, Xavier Cork, Chuck O'Bannon Jr. and Micah Peavy as returning scholarship players. Those five have been named captains for the season by head coach Jamie Dixon and are the first captains to be named during his eight seasons as TCU's head coach.
- Coles, Peavy and Jameer Nelson Jr. have scored in double-figures in each of the Frogs' two games.
- Coles leads the team with 19.0 points per game on 12-of-17 (70.6%) shooting from the field.
- TCU has made 21 of 27 attempts from the free throw line.
- TCU returns 49.9 percent of its players from last season, the second-most in the Big 12 (BYU-74.3%).
- TCU added five transfers in the 2023 signing class, which ranked No. 3 in 247Sports' transfer rankings.
- TCU has five players who have scored over 1,000 points in their careers, the most in the NCAA.
- Under Dixon in Schollmaier Arena, TCU is 92-33 overall and 33-28 in Big 12 games.
- Under Dixon, TCU has gone 70-11 in the months of November and December combined.
- Under Dixon, TCU is 84-13 in nonconference games and 58-5 in nonconference games in Schollmaier Arena.
- Of the sixteen 20-win seasons in TCU's history, five have come in the last seven seasons.
- TCU has never made three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.
LAST TIME OUT
- JaKobe Coles tied a career-high with 21 points in 21 minutes to lead TCU to an 82-60 win over Omaha on Thursday.
- Joining Coles in double figures were Emanuel Miller with 17 points, to go with nine rebounds, and Jameer Nelson Jr. and Micah Peavy with 10 points.
- Ernest Udeh Jr. led TCU's rebounding effort with 11 boards. The Frogs held a 52-25 advantage in rebounding.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
- UTRGV is 1-1 on the season and is coming off a 100-79 loss at South Dakota. Elijah Elliott scored 30 points and added seven steals and five rebounds. Elliott leads the team with 22.0 points per game in the two games this season.
- The Vaqueros started the season with a 100-59 win over Southwestern Adventist.
SERIES HISTORY
- TCU leads the all-time series 6-1 and has won the last five meetings.
- The last meeting in the series was a 57-48 TCU win on Dec. 15, 2013 in Fort Worth. Kyan Anderson had a game-high 16 points to lead the Horned Frogs. Then a freshman, Karviar Shepherd posted his first career double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
UP NEXT
- TCU continues a six-game homestand to start the season with a game against Mississippi Valley State on Friday at 7 p.m. on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
