Tuesday, February 13
Fort Worth, Texas
6:30 PM
TCU
vs
West Virginia
Preview: No. 24 West Virginia
2/12/2024 11:17:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Horned Frogs battle Mountaineers in third straight game vs. ranked foe
FORT WORTH – TCU's three-game gauntlet against ranked opposition reaches its final stop when the Horned Frogs host No. 24 West Virginia at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
TCU and West Virginia enjoyed historic starts to the 2023-24 campaign. Both the Horned Frogs and Mountaineers won their first 13 games and ran the table in nonconference play for the first time ever.
TCU will play the Mountaineers twice in the next three weeks, with the Horned Frogs heading to Morgantown on March 2 for their regular season finale.
The Game
Teams: TCU (15-8, 2-10 Big 12) vs. West Virginia (20-3, 9-3 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Feb. 13
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Meeting: 27th
All-Time Series: WVU leads, 21-5
Since joining Big 12: WVU leads, 19-5
Date Series Began: Dec. 9, 1989
Last Game Played: Jan. 28, 2023
Last Meeting: WVU won, 62-55
Current Win Streak: WVU, W7
TCU at Home: 3-22
TCU on the Road: 1-25
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-4
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 14, (March 7, 2020)
Largest Margin of Victory by WVU: 22, (Jan. 10, 2023)
Longest Winning Streak by TCU: 2, (Two times)
Longest Winning Streak by WVU: 8, (Dec. 9, 1989-March 8, 2014)
Series Since TCU Joined Big 12
TCU Record in Series: 5-19
TCU at Home: 3-8
TCU on the Road: 2-9
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-2
Series Notes: West Virginia
TCU and West Virginia enjoyed historic starts to the 2023-24 campaign. Both the Horned Frogs and Mountaineers won their first 13 games and ran the table in nonconference play for the first time ever.
TCU will play the Mountaineers twice in the next three weeks, with the Horned Frogs heading to Morgantown on March 2 for their regular season finale.
The Game
Teams: TCU (15-8, 2-10 Big 12) vs. West Virginia (20-3, 9-3 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Feb. 13
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
- Ron Thulin, play-by-play
- Jada Curtis, analyst
- Chris Blake, play-by-play
- TCU and West Virginia are the only teams with a first-year head coach to be featured in the AP top-25 in 2023-24.
- Both the Horned Frogs and Mountaineers began the season 13-0.
- TCU is playing its third straight game vs. a ranked opponent for the third time in program history.
- Tuesday marks the 12th time TCU has faced a ranked Mountaineers squad.
- TCU's 76-74 overtime victory against No. 15 West Virginia on Jan. 13, 2018, stands as the third-highest ranked win of its Big 12 era.
- TCU can earn its second Quad 1 victory of the season with a takedown of the Mountaineers.
- TCU is searching for its first ranked win in four seasons.
- TCU is one of just two teams alongside Gonzaga ranking in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers per game (5th, 9.7), 3-point percentage differential (5th, .110) and 3-pointers (8th, 222).
- The Horned Frogs are 17th nationally in both 3-point percentage offense (.371) and defense (.261) and are the lone D1 program ranking in the top-20 in both categories.
- TCU has kept teams below 30 percent from behind the arc in 16 of its 23 outings. The Horned Frogs have limited their opponent to five-or-fewer 3-pointers in 132 games.
- TCU is 32 three's shy of breaking the program's single-season record for 3-pointers (253).
- The Horned Frogs are combatting the loss of 70 percent of their scoring with injuries to Sedona Prince (21.2 ppg), Madison Conner (21.0 ppg) and Jaden Owens (7.9 ppg).
- Upon Conner and Prince's returns from the disabled list, TCU will regain its status as the only team in the country with two 20-point-per-game scorers.
- TCU has held 19 of 23 opponents under their season scoring average.
- The Horned Frogs continue to trail only Kansas State for the Big 12 lead in field goal percentage defense. TCU is limiting opponents to a 36.6 percent clip from the field and held its first 20 foes at-or-below 42 percent shooting.
- TCU has produced an assist rate at-or-above 75 percent in 10 games. The Horned Frogs assisted on 78 percent of their makes vs. Texas.
- TCU continues to rank second in the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.27) despite the loss of Owens, who ranked third and fifth, respectively, in the NCAA in assists and assists per game at the time of her injury.
- Sydney Harris is averaging 5.7 three-pointers per 40 minutes, a mark that leads the Big 12 and trails only Caitlin Clark for the national lead in 3-pointers per 40 minutes.
- Harris is connecting at a 46.3 percent (19-41) clip from behind the arc over her last half-dozen games. She ranks second in the Big 12 in 3-point percentage since Jan. 13.
- Harris ranks second in the country in 3-pointers per game among players 6-1-or-taller, averaging 3.2 makes from distance per night.
- Una Jovanovic ranks third among active players in the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio (+2.3).
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu pulled down four offensive rebounds vs. Texas, augmenting her season tally to 59. She ranks 11th among all guards 5-11-or-shorter in offensive boards.
- Emma-Nnopu leads all Big 12 guards and ranks 10th in total rebounding (7.2 rpg).
- Emma-Nnopu has pulled down three-plus offensive rebounds in 11 games and finished with at least seven boards on eight occasions.
- Tara Manumaleuga has dished out the third-most assists (32) of any Big 12 guard over the last three weeks. Manumaleuga has tallied 20 over TCU's last three contests. The senior has produced a plus-2.00 assist-to-turnover ratio since TCU implemented the 5-out motion offense vs. UCF.
- Be TCU's third against a ranked West Virginia team.
- Stake TCU to its first ranked win since the 2019-20 campaign.
- Give TCU its fourth home victory against the Mountaineers.
- Count as TCU's 14th home win in 2023-24 and pull the Horned Frogs into a tie for sixth in the program's single-season record book for home victories.
- Signify the second time in three seasons as a head coach Mark Campbell has doubled a team's win total from the previous year.
- Guarantee TCU a winning overall record entering postseason play for the first time in four seasons.
- Count as the Horned Frogs' 102nd win inside Schollmaier Arena.
- Signify TCU's 184th win as a Big 12 member.
- Mark the seventh time TCU has doubled its overall win total from the previous season, joining squads from 1978-79, 1986-87, 1992-93, 1996-97, 2013-14 and 2017-18.
Meeting: 27th
All-Time Series: WVU leads, 21-5
Since joining Big 12: WVU leads, 19-5
Date Series Began: Dec. 9, 1989
Last Game Played: Jan. 28, 2023
Last Meeting: WVU won, 62-55
Current Win Streak: WVU, W7
TCU at Home: 3-22
TCU on the Road: 1-25
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-4
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 14, (March 7, 2020)
Largest Margin of Victory by WVU: 22, (Jan. 10, 2023)
Longest Winning Streak by TCU: 2, (Two times)
Longest Winning Streak by WVU: 8, (Dec. 9, 1989-March 8, 2014)
Series Since TCU Joined Big 12
TCU Record in Series: 5-19
TCU at Home: 3-8
TCU on the Road: 2-9
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-2
Series Notes: West Virginia
- West Virginia forward Tavy Diggs appeared in 53 contests across three seasons for TCU from 2019-22 before transferring to Morgantown.
- Both Mark Campbell and Mark Kellogg led their respective teams to the winningest starts to a season in program history. Neither TCU nor West Virginia had previously run the table in nonconference play.
- Campbell and Kellogg have each been honored as national coach of the week in ESPN's weekly women's basketball power rankings. Campbell claimed the credential on Nov. 28 after leading TCU to the St. Pete Showcase championship with a win over Nebraska. Kellogg was honored in mid-December amidst the Mountaineers 13-0 start to the season.
- The two head coaches' journeys include stops in the Big Sky, with Campbell helming Sacramento State and Kellogg previously serving as an assistant at Montana State.
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