Thursday, November 21
Fort Worth, Texas
Noon
TCU
vs
Incarnate Word
Preview: Incarnate Word
11/20/2024 10:28:00 AM | Women's Basketball
19th-ranked Horned Frogs tangle with Cardinals in annual Field Trip Day game
FORT WORTH – TCU makes its return to the court as a ranked squad when it hosts Incarnate Word at noon CT on Thursday in Schollmaier Arena.
The 19th-ranked Horned Frogs are fresh off a 76-73 home win over then-No. 13 NC State on Sunday. The victory sent TCU to its highest AP Top 25 ranking in 16 years ahead of its collision with the Cardinals.
TCU and Incarnate Word are squaring off for the third straight season. The Frogs defeated the Cardinals 61-55 on Nov. 15, 2023, in last year's meeting in a game they led by 18 points with under 4:00 to go.
The Game
Teams: No. 19 TCU (4-0) vs. Incarnate Word (3-2)
Date: Noon CT on Thursday, Nov. 21
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
88.7 KTCU FM
The 19th-ranked Horned Frogs are fresh off a 76-73 home win over then-No. 13 NC State on Sunday. The victory sent TCU to its highest AP Top 25 ranking in 16 years ahead of its collision with the Cardinals.
TCU and Incarnate Word are squaring off for the third straight season. The Frogs defeated the Cardinals 61-55 on Nov. 15, 2023, in last year's meeting in a game they led by 18 points with under 4:00 to go.
The Game
Teams: No. 19 TCU (4-0) vs. Incarnate Word (3-2)
Date: Noon CT on Thursday, Nov. 21
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
- Ron Thulin, Play-by-Play
- Jada Curtis, Analyst
88.7 KTCU FM
- Jeff Williams, Play-by-Play
- TCU is playing its 90th all-time game and 41st at home as a ranked team.
- TCU sports a 14-10 all-time record when featured in the top 20 of The Associated Press poll.
- The Horned Frogs are 32-8 at home as an AP Top 25 team.
- TCU is enjoying a 19-game nonconference winning streak and has won 17 consecutive nonleague tilts inside Schollmaier Arena.
- The Horned Frogs are 32-4 in November home games since Schollmaier Arena reopened in 2015.
- TCU is staging its annual Field Trip Day promotion vs. Incarnate Word for the third consecutive year.
- The Horned Frogs are 5-0 all-time vs. the Cardinals. TCU staved off UIW 61-55 on Nov. 15, 2023, in the teams' most recent meeting. The Frogs led by 18 points with under 5:00 to go.
- The Horned Frogs earned their highest AP Top 25 ranking since Dec. 8, 2008 on Monday.
- TCU is featured in The Associated Press poll in November for the first time in 14 years.
- Sunday's 76-73 victory against No. 13 NC State sent TCU to its first top 15 win since Jan. 7, 2018.
- The triumph over the Wolfpack signified TCU's first-ever win over a reigning Final Four participant.
- TCU was named National Team of the Week for Nov. 11-17 by NCAA.com and USBWA on Tuesday.
- TCU tops the D1 ranks in assists per game (24.8) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.41).
- The Frogs dished out 22 dimes against just four giveaways vs. the Wolfpack. The four turnovers were the program's fewest in a game under Mark Campbell.
- The Horned Frogs are one of just two teams ranking in the top-25 nationally in 3-pointers per game, scoring offense and scoring defense.
- TCU is tied for third in the country in blocks per game average (8.2).
- At least four starters have scored in double figures for TCU in each of its last three wins. The Frogs
- Sedona Prince took home Associated Press National Player of the Week and Big 12 Player of the Week accolades after averaging 20.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and four blocks per game in TCU's wins over NC State and Texas State.
- Prince tallied the most points (31) and rebounds (16) by any player nationally in a game vs. a ranked opponent thus far in 2024-25 vs. the Wolfpack. She played all 40 minutes of the contest.
- Prince is the only player in the country averaging at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks per game.
- Prince is first on the Big 12 statistical leaderboard in scoring, rebounding and blocking averages.
- Prince ranks second in the nation in total blocks with 19. She has recorded at least five rejections in three of TCU's first four wins.
- Prince has produced a double-double in 15 of her 25 outings in purple and white. TCU has yet to lose when she finishes with a double-double at home, posting a perfect 10-0 record.
- Hailey Van Lith is the only D1 player averaging 17 points, eight assists and 6.5 rebounds per game.
- Van Lith and Prince recorded double-doubles in the same game for the second time this season against NC State. Van Lith notched her first career 10-assist double-double in the win.
- Van Lith and Prince are tied for eighth nationally in defensive win shares (0.6).
- Van Lith became just the sixth active D1 player to reach 2,000 career points in Sunday's win.
- Van Lith is one of just three players in the last five years to accumulate 2,000 career points, 500 rebounds and 400 assists. The others are Caitlin Clark and Las Vegas Aces guard Dyaisha Fair
- Van Lith is second among her Big 12 peers and fifth nationally in assists (32) and assists per game.
- Donovyn Hunter is fourth among all D1 players in assist-to-turnover ratio (8.0).
- Hunter, Van Lith and Madison Conner have produced a combined 70-18 (3.9) assist-to-turnover ratio.
- Conner and Caitlin Clark are the only players in the last two seasons to knock down nine-or-more 3-pointers in multiple games. Conner is one of six players since 2015-16 to accomplish the feat.
- Conner ranks fifth in the country in 3-pointers per game (4.0).
- Conner and Taylor Bigby scored 11 points and 10 points, respectively, vs. NC State. Their efforts gave TCU its first game vs. a ranked team with four double digit scorers since Feb. 27, 2016.
- Bigby is averaging a career-best 14.3 points per game over her last three outings.
- Make TCU 33-8 as a ranked team
- Augment the Horned Frogs' all-time record in 'ranked vs. unranked' tilts to 53-18.
- Boost TCU's record as a ranked team following a win under Mark Campbell to 4-1
- Swell Campbell's TCU nonconference record to 18-0.
- Enhance TCU's November home games record to 33-4 since 2015-16.
- Improve TCU's all-time nonconference record in Schollmaier Arena to 62-7.
- Send TCU to its fifth 5-0 start to a season in 48 years of existence.
- Mark the first time TCU has ever opened two consecutive seasons with five straight wins.
- Lift Campbell's career Schollmaier Arena winning percentage to .846 (22-4).
- Count as Campbell and associate head coach Xavi Lopez's 224th all-time win in their 11 seasons on the sidelines together.
- Increase TCU's edge in its all-time series vs. the Southland Conference too 43-12.
- TCU held the Cardinals to 33 points in its 2022 triumph over UIW. The 33 points allowed are tie for the eighth-fewest in a game in program history.
- TCU led UIW 61-43 with 3:43 remaining in last season's victory over the Cardinals. UIW used a 12-0 run after the Horned Frogs' emptied their bench to make the final margin of victory appear closer.
- Sedona Prince scored a then-career high 26 points in last season's takedown of UIW. She pocketed 20 of her point in the second half.
- TCU drew an announced 4,784 fans in last season's win against UIW as a part of its Field Trip Day promotion. The crowd was the largest to witness a women's basketball game under the Schollmaier Arena name. Previously known as the Daniel-Meyer coliseum, the venue reopened its doors on Dec. 20, 2015 following a $10 million renovation.
- The Horned Frogs' average margin of victory in its quintet of wins vs. the Cardinals is 22.4 points.
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