Wednesday, November 15
Fort Worth, Texas
Noon
TCU
vs
Incarnate Word
Preview: Incarnate Word
11/14/2023 3:38:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Horned Frogs tip off at noon vs. the Cardinals in annual Field Trip Day game
FORT WORTH – TCU looks to earn its first 4-0 start to a season in four years with a victory over Incarnate Word on Wednesday.
The Game
Teams: TCU (3-0) vs. Incarnate Word (1-1)
Date: Noon. CT on Wednesday, Nov. 15
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
The Game
Teams: TCU (3-0) vs. Incarnate Word (1-1)
Date: Noon. CT on Wednesday, Nov. 15
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
- Ron Thulin, play-by-play
- Jada Curtis, analyst
- Jeff Williams, play-by-play
- TCU and Incarnate Word are squaring off for the second time in as many seasons. The Horned Frogs routed the Cardinals 60-33 on Nov. 29 in their most recent meeting
- TCU is staging its annual Field Trip Day promotion for the second straight year vs. UIW. The Horned Frogs drew their second-largest crowd of 2022-23 in last season's matchup between the teams.
- TCU is hunting its first 4-0 start to a season since the 2019-20 squad won seven straight games to begin the year.
- A win over the Cardinals will make Mark Campbell the first first-year head coach in program history to begin his TCU tenure 4-0.
- Madison Conner was crowned Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the seventh Horned Frog in program history to garner the accolade.
- Conner averaged 24 points, nine rebounds and five 3-pointers during opening week. The junior finished with double-doubles against Oral Roberts (30 pts, 11 rbs) and Rice (19 pts, 11 rbs).
- Conner leads the NCAA in 3-pointers (15) and ranks third nationally in total points (71).
- Conner has entered halftime with 15-or-more points in all three TCU victories.
- TCU had two players produce double-doubles in all three of its opening week victories.
- Sedona Prince leads the NCAA with three double-doubles.
- Prince racked up 18 points - 10 of which came in the fourth quarter - and pulled down a career-best 14 rebounds in TCU's 67-42 win against Rice on Sunday. The 6-7 guard also played a career-high 32 minutes in the win.
- TCU is the only Power Five conference team whose starting five is comprised entirely of first-year transfers.
- Conner, Owens, Prince, and Agnes Emma-Nnopu are averaging a collective 55 points, 30.3 rebounds and 11.3 assists per game.
- TCU is assisting on 65 percent (51-79) of its field goals this season. Owens leads the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio (+19.0). She has turned the ball over just once through three games.
- Emma-Nnopu, 5-11, has been a pest for opposing guards on the glass. She has snared 18 rebounds over her last two games and reeled in five offensive boards in TCU's takedown of Rice.
- The Horned Frogs have snagged 48 rebounds in each of their last two outings. TCU finished with a plus-14 edge on the glass in its rout of Rice.
- TCU's 42 points allowed vs. Rice were its fewest surrendered in a game since pitching a 75-32 defeat of Nicholls on Dec. 21.
- TCU has 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 limited Rice to 25.4 percent shooting (16-63) on Sunday, its second-lowest opponent field goal percentage allowed in the last five seasons.
- TCU is outscoring opponents 65-34 in the second quarter. The Horned Frogs closed the first half of Wednesday's win over Texas A&M-Kingsville on a 15-0 scoring run and hung 11 unanswered points on Rice on Sunday as a part of a 17-2 second quarter scoring surge.
- TCU is tied for 12th nationally in blocks per game (7.3).
- Give TCU its seventh 4-0 start to a season in its 47-year history
- Extend the Horned Frogs' home nonconference winning streak to six games
- Boost TCU's all-time home record to 419-246.
- Be the Horned Frogs' 92nd win at Schollmaier Arena and improve TCU's career record inside the venue to 92-50.
- Make TCU 27-4 in November home games played at Schollmaier Arena.
- Improve Mark Campbell's career nonconference head coaching record to 17-8
- Mark the first time the Horned Frogs have won four consecutive games since 2019-20
- Pull TCU's all-time record against current American Athletic Conference members even at 59-59
- Be TCU's fifth win in its last six games dating back to 2022-23
- Augment the Horned Frogs' record vs. Southland Conference opponents to 26-5
- Signify the Horned Frogs' 23rd consecutive win over an active Southland Conference team.
- TCU outscored UIW by a combined 44-15 margin in the first and third quarters of last season's game. The Horned Frogs led 20-7 after the opening frame and used a 22-8 third quarter to enter the final period leading 49-22.
- Tara Manumaleuga scored 10 points off the bench at the expense of the Cardinals in their 2022 meeting.
- The Horned Frogs' 27-point margin of victory over the Cardinals was its second-largest in a game in 2022-23.
- Adeola Akomolafe, TCU's director of player personnel and student athlete development, tallied eight points over 12 minutes as a sophomore in TCU's 88-40 win against the Cardinals in 2016.
- UIW's 12 field goals made in last season's contest were the fewest TCU surrendered in a game in 2022-23 as were the Cardinals' nine attempts at the foul line.
- TCU last lost to a Southland Conference opponent on Dec. 27, 1995 in a 98-82 defeat to Grambling.
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