Friday, March 8
Kansas City, Mo.
1:30 PM
TCU
vs
Oklahoma State
Preview: Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship
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Horned Frogs begin play vs. Oklahoma State in second round on Friday
FORT WORTH – TCU's postseason run begins on Friday with a 9-seed vs. 8-seed battle with Oklahoma State in the second round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
The Horned Frogs secured the No. 9 seed and a first round bye after closing out the regular season with wins in four of their last five outings.
TCU's Jan. 6 meeting with Oklahoma State proved to be the difference in the team's seeding, as the Cowgirls finished one game ahead in the league tables. Oklahoma State knocked off TCU 67-59 in Fort Worth in the Horned Frogs first of 11 games without All-Big 12 center and Lisa Leslie Award finalist Sedona Prince.
The Horned Frogs will draw regular season champion and No. 1 seed Oklahoma in Saturday's quarterfinals should they defeat the Cowgirls. TCU's side of the 14-team bracket also features No. 4 seed Iowa State and fifth-seeded Baylor.
The Game
Teams: TCU (19-10, 6-12 Big 12) vs. Oklahoma State (14-15, 7-11 Big 12)
Date: 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8
Location: T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Meeting: 28th
All-Time Series: OSU leads, 18-9
Since joining Big 12: OSU leads, 15-8
Date Series Began: Dec. 12, 1987
Last Game Played: Jan. 6, 2024
Last Meeting: OSU won, 67-59
Current Win Streak: OSU, W4
TCU at Home: 7-6
TCU on the Road: 2-12
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-0
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 34, (Dec. 18, 2007)
Largest Margin of Victory by OSU: 32, (Jan. 30, 2016)
Longest Winning Streak by TCU: 3, (Feb. 3, 2019-Feb. 23, 2020)
Longest Winning Streak by OSU: 5, (Jan. 4, 2017-Jan. 6, 2019)
Series Since TCU Joined Big 12
TCU Record in Series: 8-15
TCU at Home: 6-6
TCU on the Road: 2-9
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-0
Series Notes: Oklahoma State
The Horned Frogs secured the No. 9 seed and a first round bye after closing out the regular season with wins in four of their last five outings.
TCU's Jan. 6 meeting with Oklahoma State proved to be the difference in the team's seeding, as the Cowgirls finished one game ahead in the league tables. Oklahoma State knocked off TCU 67-59 in Fort Worth in the Horned Frogs first of 11 games without All-Big 12 center and Lisa Leslie Award finalist Sedona Prince.
The Horned Frogs will draw regular season champion and No. 1 seed Oklahoma in Saturday's quarterfinals should they defeat the Cowgirls. TCU's side of the 14-team bracket also features No. 4 seed Iowa State and fifth-seeded Baylor.
The Game
Teams: TCU (19-10, 6-12 Big 12) vs. Oklahoma State (14-15, 7-11 Big 12)
Date: 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8
Location: T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri
Coverage
Television: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
- Tyler Denning, play-by-play
- Andrea Lloyd, analyst
- Jeff Williams, play-by-play
- TCU received the No. 9 seed in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship for the first time in 12 seasons of conference membership.
- TCU and Oklahoma State have never met in the Big 12 Championship.
- TCU is 1-1 in 8-seed vs. 9-seed matchups in the Big 12 Championship.
- The Horned Frogs will win 20 games for the third time in the Big 12 era and first time since 2019-20 with a win on Friday. TCU has produced fourteen 20-win seasons in its 47-year existence.
- The Horned Frogs played their first of 11 games without Sedona Prince in their 67-59 defeat to the Cowgirls on Jan. 6. Prince underwent surgery on her right ring finger the day prior.
- Madison Conner led all scorers with 20 points in the teams' January meeting.
- TCU has held 23 of 29 teams under their season scoring average.
- TCU is 13-7 when allowing six-or-fewer 3-pointers.
- TCU is 16-2 when both Madison Conner and Sedona Prince play.
- 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 9-1 when four players score in double figures.
- TCU is 14-4 when knocking down at least nine 3-pointers.
- The Horned Frogs continue to be one of just two teams in the country ranking in the top-10 in 3-pointers per game (7th, 9.4), 3-pointers (9th, 274) and 3-point percentage differential (10th, .093).
- Conner and Prince both received All-Big 12 recognition, with Conner a second team selection and Prince earning honorable mention accolades. They are the first Frogs to garner postseason all-conference honors since 2021.
- Prince (20.9 ppg) and Conner (20.0 ppg) have scored in double figures in all 15 games they have taken the court together.
- Prince and Conner combine to make TCU the sole D1 program with two 20-point-per-game scorers.
- Prince is the first player in program history to lead the Big 12 in scoring at the regular season's end.
- Prince is the only player in the nation averaging 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Prince notched her 12th double-double of the season via a 15-point, 12-rebound, four-block performance on Wednesday vs. Texas Tech. She has scored 20 points in nine of her double-doubles.
- Conner ranks second only to Caitlin Clark in 3-pointers per game (3.9).
- Conner has drained at least five 3-pointers in eight games this season.
- Conner is one of only seven players in the country and one of just five guards 5-11-or-shorter averaging at least 20 points, five rebounds and three assists per game.
- Sydney Harris and Conner rank third and fourth, respectively, in the nation in 3-pointers per 40 minutes, averaging 4.6 and 4.5.
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu is 10th nationally and tops among all Big 12 guards 5-11-or-shorter in offensive rebounds (77). She snagged eight offensive boards in TCU's wins against ACU and Texas Tech. The eight offensive rebounds are the second-most in a game by any D1 guard this year.
- Emma-Nnopu is the sole Big 12 guard cracking the top-10 of the conference's statistical leaderboard in blocks per game (7th, 1.2) and rebounds per game (9th, 7.4).
- TCU is 5-0 when Emma-Nnopu finishes with a double-double.
- Una Jovanovic ranks third in the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2). She has averaged eight points per game since assuming primary ball-handling duties on Jan. 23.
- Aaliyah Roberson ranks 14th nationally and second behind only Ayoka Lee in the Big 12 in effective field goal percentage (.617).
- TCU's scholarship players have missed a combined 129 games due to injury.
- Mark Campbell is a three-time conference tournament champion coach. Campbell helped guide Oregon to the Pac-12 Tournament title in 2018 and 2020 during his tenure as associate head coach. He then led Sacramento State to its first Big Sky Tournament championship and first NCAA Tournament berth in 2023.
- Five of TCU's seven coaches were members of Oregon's 2020 Pac-12 Tournament-winning squad. Campbell, along with Xavi Lopez and Nia Jackson, served on head coach Kelly Graves' staff while Minyon Moore and Ruthy Hebard were all-conference players at point guard and power forward.
- Campbell has advanced a team to a conference tournament title game five times.
- Campbell has won 15 conference tournament games as a head or associate head coach, dating back to his four-year run at Oregon State from 2010-14. Campbell is 13-4 in conference tournament play since 2016-17.
- Zahna Medley received Big 12 Championship all-tournament team honors in 2014. She is the lone Horned Frog to garner all-tournament team credentials in TCU's 12 seasons of conference membership.
- TCU's 77-76 loss to No. 2 Seed Oklahoma in the 2023 Big 12 Championship is one of just five games in the tournament's 26-year history to be decided by one point.
- The Horned Frogs scored 30 third quarter points in their 90-83 victory over Oklahoma in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Big 12 Championship. The 30 points are the second-most scored in a quarter in tournament history.
- TCU has earned two of its four Big 12 Championship wins as the lower-seeded team.
- Three Horned Frogs have been a part of four combined conference tournament championship runs; Agnes Emma-Nnopu (Stanford, 2021, 2022), Jaden Owens (Baylor, 2021) and Sedona Prince (Oregon, 2020).
- TCU garnered the No. 2 seed in the 2020 Big 12 Championship before the tournament was ultimately cancelled due to COVID-19. The No. 2 seed would have been the Horned Frogs' highest-ever in the event.
- The Horned Frogs are 3-2 all-time in conference tournament championship games.
- Kansas State head coach Jeff Mittie guided TCU to each of its three conference tournament championships in 2001, 2003 and 2005.
- TCU went 10-2 in tournament play during its four-year stay in the Conference-USA.
- Send TCU to its fifth Big 12 Championship quarterfinal and second in as many seasons.
- Count as the Horned Frogs fifth Big 12 Championship win.
- Signify the first time TCU has won consecutive opening-round games at the Big 12 Championship in 12 seasons of membership.
- Mark the 14th time TCU has won 20 games in a season and be the third such instance in the program's Big 12 era.
- Count as Mark Campbell's 299th women's basketball victory as a head or assistant coach.
- Augment Campbell's combined year-over-year win improvement to 34 games across three seasons as a head coach.
- Make TCU 3-1 in rematches vs. teams it lost to during its injury-plagued stretch of games from Jan. 6-Feb. 13.
- Go down as TCU's first win as a No. 9 seed in any conference tournament.
Meeting: 28th
All-Time Series: OSU leads, 18-9
Since joining Big 12: OSU leads, 15-8
Date Series Began: Dec. 12, 1987
Last Game Played: Jan. 6, 2024
Last Meeting: OSU won, 67-59
Current Win Streak: OSU, W4
TCU at Home: 7-6
TCU on the Road: 2-12
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-0
Largest Margin of Victory by TCU: 34, (Dec. 18, 2007)
Largest Margin of Victory by OSU: 32, (Jan. 30, 2016)
Longest Winning Streak by TCU: 3, (Feb. 3, 2019-Feb. 23, 2020)
Longest Winning Streak by OSU: 5, (Jan. 4, 2017-Jan. 6, 2019)
Series Since TCU Joined Big 12
TCU Record in Series: 8-15
TCU at Home: 6-6
TCU on the Road: 2-9
TCU on a Neutral Court: 0-0
Series Notes: Oklahoma State
- TCU cut a 14-point halftime deficit down to two at 50-48 with 9:15 to play in its January loss to Oklahoma State.
- The Horned Frogs shot a season-low 29 percent from the field vs. the Cowgirls as the team worked to find its new offensive identity in the immediate aftermath of Sedona Prince's injury.
- The Horned Frogs forced 17 Cowgirl turnovers in the teams' January meeting. TCU limited Oklahoma State to 4-16 shooting behind the arc despite playing its first of 11 games without its 6-7 center.
- The Horned Frogs and Cowgirls are 44th and 58th, respectively, in the NCAA NET Ratings ahead of Friday's matchup.
- TCU defeated the Cowgirls twice in 2019-20, the year of its last 20-win season.
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