Preview: at Mississippi State

Sunday, March 24

Starkville, Miss.

2 PM

TCU

Mississippi State

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Preview: at Mississippi State

3/23/2024 9:01:00 AM | Women's Basketball

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TCU faces Bulldogs on Sunday in second round of WBIT

FORT WORTH – TCU continues its postseason run with a trip south to meet Mississippi State at 2 p.m. on Sunday in the second round of the inaugural Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament (WBIT).

The Horned Frogs, seeded third in their eight-team region, thwarted No. 6 seed North Texas 67-58 on Thursday to pick up their first postseason win in five years.

Mississippi State defeated No. 7 seed Georgia Tech 84-47 in the opening round.

The winner of Sunday's game faces either top-seeded Penn State or No. 5 seed Belmont in the quarterfinals on March 28. Semifinal bouts and the WBIT championship take place on April 1 and April 3 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The WBIT is an NCAA-funded championship akin to the National Invitation Tournament and is considered the second-best postseason event in college women's basketball.

The Game
Teams: TCU (21-11, 6-12 Big 12) at Mississippi State (22-11, 8-8 SEC)
Date: 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 24
Location: Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Mississippi

Coverage
Television: ESPN+

Bart Gregory, play-by-play
Charlie Winfield, analyst

Radio: 88.7 KTCU FM

Chris Blake, play-by-play

Opening Tip

TCU and Mississippi State are meeting for the third time ever and first since 2005.
TCU is aiming to notch its third consecutive postseason quarterfinal berth and fourth all-time.
The Horned Frogs are 8-2 in their last 10 postseason tilts.
TCU is 19-16 all-time in postseason play. Seven of its wins have come as the lower seeded team.
TCU last faced an SEC opponent on Dec. 12, 2021, defeating No. 18 Texas A&M 87-75 in Fort Worth. The victory stands as TCU's most recent ranked win.
The Horned Frogs are 16-84 all-time vs. the SEC. Of the 100 bouts, 64 have come against former Southwest Conference foes Arkansas and Texas A&M. TCU has claimed four of its last six contests against SEC foes dating back to the 2017-18 campaign.

Frog Focus

TCU is enjoying the largest year-over-year win improvement of any Power Six program at 13 games.
TCU boosted its year-over-year winning percentage differential to .400 with Thursday's win against UNT. That mark ranks third nationally and first among teams with a first-year head coach.
Mark Campbell has generated a combined 35-game year-over-year win improvement in three seasons as a head coach.
Campbell's teams are 20-8 in postseason play when including his tenures at Oregon and Oregon State.
The Horned Frogs have held seven straight opponents and 26 of 32 teams below their season scoring average.
TCU has kept 20 teams and six of their last eight opponents below 40 percent shooting.
TCU has had two-or-more players finish with a double-double in eight games. They are 8-0 when multiple players produce a double-double.
The Horned Frogs are 10-1 when four players score in double figures.
TCU is 15-4 when knocking down at least nine 3-pointers.
The Horned Frogs are 19-3 when scoring at least 64 points. TCU was averaging 80.5 points per game leading into its tilt at Baylor on Jan. 3 before its rash of midseason injuries began.
TCU is one of only two teams in the country ranking in the top-10 in 3-pointers per game (8th, 9.4), 3-pointers (9th, 300) and 3-point percentage differential (9th, .084).
TCU's 3-pointers per game average of 9.4 is the third-best clip in the 27-season history of the Big 12.
The Horned Frogs produced an assist rate of 75 percent-or-better for the 12th time in Thursday's takedown of UNT, assisting on 18 of 24 field goals. TCU is 9-3 when doing so.
The Horned Frogs' scholarship players have missed a combined 144 games due to injury.
Sedona Prince is the lone D1 player averaging 20 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
Prince became the first player in program history to lead the Big 12 in points per game at regular season's end, averaging 20.9.
Prince and Madison Conner (19.3 ppg) are the nation's highest-scoring duo.
Conner has drained a school record 97 threes in 2023-24, putting her three shy of becoming the fifth Big 12 player to knock down 100 in a season despite missing six games due to injury.
Conner's 3-pointers per game average of 3.7 trails only Caitlin Clark for the national lead.
Conner is one of only 15 guards in the country averaging at least 19 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per outing.
Conner is one of only 14 players in the country averaging at least 19 points, 4.5 rebounds and three assists per outing.
Agnes Emma-Nnopu ranks 11th nationally among players 5-11-or-shorter in offensive rebounds (85).
Emma-Nnopu has snagged seven-or-more boards in 20 games.
Aaliyah Roberson is 23rd in the country among players 6-2-or-taller in effective field goal percentage (.577). She ranks third among Big 12 post players in 3-point shooting.

Postseason Notables

TCU's most recent road postseason win came on March 28. 2019, in an 82-71 victory at Arkansas in the third round of the 2019 WNIT.
The Horned Frogs are 3-2 in their last five road postseason tilts.
TCU sports a 4-1 all-time record in the second round of postseason play. Four of the Horned Frogs' defeats came in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
TCU won its fifth straight opening round postseason game in Thursday's 67-58 takedown of UNT in the first round of the inaugural WBIT.
TCU improved to 11-6 all-time and 5-1 at home in first round games with the win over the Mean Green.
TCU is 9-3 in its last 12 postseason tilts dating back to its run to consecutive WNIT semifinals from 2018-19.
The Horned Frogs have now won 10 straight home postseason games, a streak that began on March 19, 2015 with an 85-80 defeat of Stephen F. Austin in the first round of the WNIT.
Five members of TCU's roster have earned a combined 41 NCAA Tournament caps; Agnes Emma-Nnopu (13), Madison Conner (10), Jaden Owens (8), Tara Manumaleuga (6) and Sedona Prince (4). The five players hold a combined 30-11 postseason record and have all advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at least once.
Emma-Nnopu, Conner and Manumaleuga all competed in the 2021 NCAA Championship, with Emma-Nnopu earning a ring in Stanford's title game triumph over Arizona.
Emma-Nnopu has been a part of a team-leading 12 postseason wins while Connor follows closely behind with eight of her own.
Mark Campbell joined Raegan Pebley as one of two first-year head coaches to lead TCU to a postseason win on Thursday vs. UNT.
Campbell's teams are 14-1 in first round tilts.
Campbell has guided six of his last seven squads to the postseason, excluding the 2019-20 season.
TCU reached the third round or better in four of its seven WNIT appearances.
All nine of TCU's NCAA Tournament berths came in the Jeff Mittie era as did the program's first WNIT appearance in 2008.

Series Breakdown: Mississippi State
Meeting: 3rd
All-Time Series: Tied, 1-1
Since joining Big 12: 0-0
Date Series Began: Dec. 31, 1992
Last Game Played: Nov. 25, 2005
Last Meeting: TCU won, 72-52
Current Win Streak: TCU, W1
TCU at Home: 0-0
TCU on the Road: 0-0
TCU on a Neutral Court: 1-1
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 20, (Nov. 25, 2005)
Largest Margin of Victory by MSU: 23, (Dec. 31, 1992)

Series Notes: Mississippi State

Mark Campbell and Sam Purcell coached against one another three times during their respective tenures as associate head coaches at Oregon and Louisville. The Ducks and Cardinals collided in in 2017-18, 2019-20 and 2020-21, with Louisville winning all three meetings.
Campbell is 2-1 all-time vs. Mississippi State and notched two victories over the Bulldogs at Oregon in 2018-19. The teams' second meeting was an NCAA Regional Final tilt on March 31, 2019 in Portland. Oregon won 88-84 and advanced to its first Final Four.
TCU and Mississippi State finished 46th and 47th, respectively, in the final NCAA NET Ratings.
The Horned Frogs are 2-37 all-time in road games vs. SEC foes. TCU owns a victory over nine SEC teams.
TCU and Mississippi State share a common opponent in Tulsa. TCU knocked off the Golden Hurricane 82-50 on Dec. 1 in Fort Worth. The Bulldogs defeated Tulsa 102-58 five days prior in Katy, Texas during the Van Chancellor Classic.

A Win Over the Bulldogs Would…

Give TCU its 10th road or neutral site postseason win.
Lift the Horned Frogs to their 20th postseason victory.
Send TCU to its third consecutive postseason quarterfinal and fourth all-time.
Count as TCU's second-ever postseason win over an SEC foe.
Signify the Horned Frogs' third win in the state of Mississippi and first since defeating Ole Miss 55-50 on Nov. 29, 2018, in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
Give TCU its 11th 22-win season and fourth as a Big 12 member.
Mark the fifth time TCU has won at least two postseason games in a season.
Make TCU 3-1 in its last four road games, dating back to a 79-72 win at Cincinnati on Feb. 17.
Be the seventh time Mark Campbell-coached team has won two-or-more postseason games.
Set up a WBIT quarterfinal tilt at either No. 1 seed Penn State or vs. No. 5 seed Belmont on Thursday.