TCU
Texas Tech
Preview: No. 15 Texas Tech
1/29/2024 5:53:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Horned Frogs host ranked Red Raiders Tuesday at 6 p.m.
FORT WORTH – No. 25 TCU (15-5, 4-3) will face its sixth AP Top 25 team in eight games on Tuesday at 6 p.m. against No. 15 Texas Tech (16-3, 5-1). The game will air on ESPN2 from Schollmaier Arena.
NOTES
- TCU will face its sixth AP Top 25 team in eight games on Tuesday at 6 p.m. against No. 15 Texas Tech. The game will air on ESPN2 from Schollmaier Arena.
- Currently at 154, Jamie Dixon is two wins away from tying Billy Tubbs for second in wins by a TCU head coach.
- TCU is 9-1 at home this season and 2-1 in the Big 12 with the lone loss by one point to Iowa State.
- Four of TCU's five losses are to NET Quadrant 1 opponents. Tuesday is one of six Q1 opportunities remaining.
- TCU is 3-3 against AP Top 25 teams this season (OU, UH, BU).
- After a week away from the top 25, TCU returns this week at No. 25. Under Dixon, TCU is 30-23 as a Top 25 team.
- Of TCU's 36 wins over AP Top 25 teams in its history, 22 have come under Dixon.
- TCU is 8-5 against AP Top 25 teams at home in the past two seasons.
- It is the 10th time two ranked teams have played at Schollmaier Arena (3-6). Nine have come under Dixon.
- Emanuel Miller won a Big 12 best and program-record third Big 12 Player of the Week honor this season on Monday.
- Miller leads the team and ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 16.8 points per game.
- Miller has scored in double figures in each of the last eight games and reached 20 points seven times this season.
- Miller is the team leader in rebounds with 6.0 per game, which ranks 14th in the Big 12.
- Miller ranks sixth in the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 49.2.
- Ernest Udeh Jr. has won the opening tip in 17 of 20 games and all four overtime periods.
- Trevian Tennyson leads the Big 12 in 3-point percentage at 46.1.
- Jameer Nelson Jr. ranks second in the Big 12 and 18th nationally with 2.4 steals per game.
- Nelson is one of three players in the Big 12 that is averaging at least 11 points, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
- TCU is 4-2 this season when trailing by 10 or more points. Two wins have come in the last two games.
- TCU leads the nation with 21.3 fastbreak points per game. No other team averages 20.
- TCU leads the Big 12 and ranks 16th nationally in shortest offensive possession length at 15.4 seconds.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 13th nationally with 9.7 steals per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 22nd nationally with 15.5 turnovers forced per game.
- The Frogs have forced 13 or more turnovers in all but three games this season (UH, OSU and Nev.).
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 11th nationally with 18.1 assists per game. The best under Dixon is 18.9 in '17-'18.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 20th nationally with 83.6 points per game. The best under Dixon is 75.4 in '17-'18.
- TCU is shooting 72.3 percent from the free throw line. The best under Jamie Dixon is 70.6 percent in 2017-18.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 19th nationally in field goal percentage at 49.0 percent.
- Under Dixon in Schollmaier Arena, TCU is 99-35 overall and 36-30 in Big 12 games.
- Of the sixteen 20-win seasons in TCU's history, five have come in the last seven seasons.
- TCU is looking for three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
LAST TIME OUT
- Behind a 30-point performance by senior guard Jameer Nelson Jr., including a go-ahead shot with 11.3 seconds remaining, TCU defeated No. 15 Baylor, 105-102, Saturday at Foster Pavilion.
- Emanuel Miller scored 21 points and played in a career-high 53 minutes. Tied for the most by a TCU player since at least the 1996-97 season when Desmond Bane played 53 minutes at West Virginia on Feb. 26, 2019.
About the Opponent
- No. 15 Texas Tech (16-3, 5-1) leads the Big 12 after Saturday's 85-84 win at No. 11 Oklahoma.
- The Red Raiders are led in scoring by Pop Isaacs, who ranks fifth in the Big 12 at 17.0 points per game.
- Chance McMillian is the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week after scoring a career-high 27 points in a win at BYU.
Series History
- Texas Tech leads the all-time series 86-55.
- TCU leads the series in Fort Worth, 34-33, and has won the last three in Funky Town.
- Last year, for the first time since 2015, TCU swept Tech with a 67-61 win in Fort Worth and 83-82 win in Lubbock.
UP NEXT
- TCU will host Texas at 1 p.m. on Saturday. It will be shown on ESPN2.
