Preview: Louisiana Tech

FORT WORTH – No. 12 TCU hosts the 18^th Maggie Dixon Classic at 2 p.m. on Sunday when it welcomes Louisiana tech to Schollmaier Arena.

The ballgame represents TCU's penultimate nonconference affair before beginning Big 12 play on Dec. 21.

TCU is unblemished at home in nonleague tilts under second year head coach Mark Campbell. The Frogs have won 21 consecutive nonconference or postseason contests in Fort Worth.

The Game
Teams: No. 12 TCU (9-1) vs. Louisiana Tech (5-3)
Date: 2 p.m. CT on Sunday, Dec. 15
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas

Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+

John Liddle, Play-by-Play
Jada Curtis, Analyst

Radio
88.7 KTCU FM

Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
Ian Napetian, Analyst

Opening Tip

TCU is hosting the 18th Maggie Dixon Classic, which honors the life of the late Army women's basketball head coach and younger sister of TCU men's basketball head coach Jamie Dixon.
Sunday's game marks the sixth straight season the Classic has been staged in Fort Worth.
TCU carries a 20-game home nonconference winning streak into its clash with the Lady Techsters.
The Horned Frogs are 22-1 in nonconference tilts under second-year head coach Mark Campbell.
TCU is 35-8 overall and 7-1 under Campbell in home games as a ranked team.
TCU is the highest-ranked Big 12 team in The Associated Press poll for the second straight week.
TCU achieved its third all-time AP Top 15 ranking with Monday's No. 12 poll placement.
TCU has played Louisiana Tech just once, an 80-59 loss in Ruston on March 19, 2001 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Frog Focus

TCU is the only Big 12 team slotted in the top 12 of the NCAA NET rankings and AP Top 25. The Horned Frogs are ranked 11th in the NET, second only to No. 4 Kansas State among Big 12 teams.
TCU has been featured in four straight AP Top 25 polls for the fourth time in program history and first since boasting a quartet of consecutive rankings from Nov. 17-Dec. 8, 2008.
The Horned Frogs are one of three teams alongside No. 2 UConn and No. 13 Kansas State ranking in the top five nationally in assists per game (5th, 20.5) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.79).
The Horned Frogs rank fifth in the country in games with at least 20 assists.
TCU has dished out at least 20 assists six times this year and in six of its seven home games.
The Frogs enter Sunday's game averaging 7.1 blocks per game, tied for third nationally and tops in the Big 12. Inside Schollmaier Arena, that figure increases to 8.3 blocks per night.
TCU is one of just six teams averaging at least 80 points per game and allowing no more than 52 points per outing.
The Horned Frogs lead the country in games with at least 12 three-pointers (five).
TCU ranks sixth in the country in total 3-pointers (98). The Frogs are knocking down 11 three-pointers per game at home.
TCU's average margin of victory at home this season is 38.3 points.
Hailey Van Lith (19.6 pg), Sedona Prince (18.1 ppg) and Madison Conner (14.1 ppg) make TCU one of eight teams with three players averaging at least 14 points per game.
Van Lith ranks sixth and 10th among all D1 players in assists (65) and assists per game (6.5). She leads her Big 12 peers in assist average.
Van Lith is one of two D1 hoopers averaging at least 19 points, five assists and five rebounds per game and the lone player at the Power Conference level doing so.
Van Lith finished with 21 points and six assists vs. No. 3 South Carolina in TCU's most recent game. She leads all D1 players in games with at least 20 points and five assists (four).
Van Lith has finished with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.5 or better in seven games, including three of TCU's four bouts vs. teams featured in the top 100 of the NCAA NET rankings.
Van Lith has led TCU in scoring in six straight outings ahead of Sunday's game, averaging 21.2 points per night in that span.
Prince continues to lead the nation in blocks per game (4.0). She has rejected five-or-more shots in five games this season, including four at home.
Prince remains the only D1 player averaging at least 18 points, eight boards and three blocks per game.
Prince tops the national ranks in C-RAM rating (15.1) which measures a players total statistical performance. Van Lith is 16th in the metric (12.0).
Prince had scored in double figures for 30 straight games prior to TCU's loss to South Carolina.
Conner is third in the country in 3-pointers (36). She has connected at least three times from distance in eight of her last nine games and on 24 occasions in her TCU tenure.
Conner is the nation's best volume 3-point shooter. Her 3-point percentage (.434) ranks second nationally among players with at least 70 attempts from deep. She is one of four players averaging at least three 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.5 percent or better behind the arc.
Conner has hit five-or-more 3-pointers in a game on 10 occasions since 2023, the second-most of any D1 player in that span.
Van Lith, Conner and Donovyn Hunter give TCU three starters with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.6 or better. Hunter produced a 3-1 assist-to-turnover ratio in her first four starts at guard.

A Win Over the Lady Techsters Would…

Extend TCU's home nonconference winning streak to 21 games.
Boost TCU's all-time record as a ranked team to 60-36.
Be Mark Campbell's 70th career head coaching victory.
Make Campbell 23-1 in nonconference affairs.
Enhance Campbell's career record inside Schollmaier Arena to 24-4.
Lift the Horned Frogs' record to 7-0 under Campbell when playing a game following a break of at least six days.
Improve Campbell's career record following a TCU loss to 5-7.
Make TCU 9-1 in the month of December under Campbell.
Signify the fifth time TCU has won at least 10 nonconference games in 13 years of Big 12 membership.
Spike TCU's all-time mark against active members of the Conference USA to 80-65.

About the Maggie Dixon Classic

The Maggie Dixon Classic is an annual nonconference women's basketball event played in honor of former Army women's basketball head coach Maggie Dixon.
Dixon led Army to its first-and-only Patriot League Championship and NCAA Tournament in 2006 before passing away suddenly just weeks later due to an undiagnosed heart arrhythmia.
Dixon is the lone coach in the history of Army men's and women's basketball to guide a team to the Big Dance, a feat made all the more impressive when considering Bob Knight and Mike Krzyzewski once paced the sidelines in West Point.
The inaugural Maggie Dixon Classic took place in West Point in November 2006. The Classic was then held inside Madison Square Garden from 2007-2015.
The Classic relocated to Funky Town in 2018 ahead of TCU men's basketball head coach Jamie Dixon's third year helming his alma mater. The Horned Frogs hosted the Black Knights in the event's first playing in Fort Worth. TCU won the game 63-38. The Frogs battled Army once more in the most recent playing of the event, defeating the Black Knights 88-51 on Nov. 19, 2023.
Jamie Dixon had this to say ahead of the 2018 Maggie Dixon Classic between TCU and Army: "The first basketball Maggie probably remembers is watching me play at TCU. I was 17 when I came here, she was 5, so I'm sure she remembers going to watch the games at the local pizza parlor to watch on the satellite at the bar. It was the only way you could get them back in the day. ... This event is important to women's basketball. It's a premier game. It has name recognition and that's why we want to keep it going."

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