TCU
UCF
Preview: vs. UCF
3/8/2024 1:10:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Horned Frogs play final home game Saturday at 4 p.m.
FORT WORTH – TCU (20-10, 9-8) will conclude the regular season with its first Big 12 meeting with UCF (15-14, 6-11) on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Schollmaier Arena on Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
NOTES
- It is the first time a school from Florida has visited Schollmaier Arena since Jan. 26, 2019 when TCU hosted Florida.
- TCU is 12-3 at home this season and 102-37 under Jamie Dixon, including 39-32 in Big 12 games.
- TCU is 37-11 at home in the past three seasons.
- TCU's nine Big 12 wins tied for the most in program history with the 2018 and 2023 teams.
- TCU is one win away from a program-record 10 in the Big 12. It would be the most in any conference since going 14-0 in the Western Athletic Conference in 1998.
- All 10 of TCU's losses are in NET Quadrant 1 games and to teams currently in the NET top 45.
- TCU is one of five teams with no losses outside of Q1. The others are Auburn, Houston, Purdue and UConn.
- TCU is 4-6 against AP Top 25 teams this season, 4-3 against the top 15.
- Emanuel Miller leads the team and ranks fourth in the Big 12 with 16.1 points per game.
- Miller has scored in double figures in each of the last 18 games and reached 20 points eight times this season.
- Miller is the only player to score in double figures in 17 Big 12 games this season.
- Miller is the team leader in rebounds with 5.9 per game, which ranks 12th in the Big 12.
- Miller ranks fourth in the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 49.1.
- At 1,227 points over three seasons, Miller ranks tied for 18th on TCU's all-time scoring list.
- Sophomore center Ernest Udeh Jr. has missed the last five games with a left leg injury suffered at Kansas State.
- Trevian Tennyson ranks first in 3-point percentage in the Big 12 at 43.0 percent.
- Jameer Nelson Jr. ranks fourth in the Big 12 with 2.0 steals per game.
- Nelson is one of three players in the Big 12 that is averaging at least 10 points, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
- In the last two games, Nelson averaged 15.5 points (11-16) and 5.5 rebounds and totaled 11 assists and 1 turnover.
- TCU has used five different starting lineups. TCU used 15 last year.
- TCU leads the nation with 18.9 fastbreak points per game.
- TCU leads the Big 12 and ranks 27th nationally in shortest offensive possession length at 15.9 seconds.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 18th nationally with 9.0 steals per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 23rd nationally with 14.9 turnovers forced per game.
- The Frogs have forced 10 or more turnovers in all but four games this season.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 15th nationally with 17.4 assists per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 with 80.5 points per game. The best under Dixon is 75.4 in '17-'18.
- TCU is shooting 73.4 percent from the free throw line. The best under Jamie Dixon is 70.6 percent in 2017-18.
- In the last four games, TCU is 60-for-70 from the free throw line (85.7 percent).
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 47.5 percent.
- In Big 12 games only, TCU is first in 3-point percentage (38.8) and tied for first (Baylor) in scoring offense (76.5).
- TCU has 17 seasons of 20 or more wins in its history and six have come in the last eight seasons.
- Dixon has reached 20 wins in a season for the 18th time in his 21 seasons as a head coach.
- TCU is looking for three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
- UCF (15-14, 6-11) has lost its past two games which came against the top two teams in the Big 12 Conference. The Knights fell to Iowa State, 60-52, and most recently to Houston, 67-59.
- The Knights are led in scoring by Jaylin Sellers' 16.0 points per game, which ranks fifth in the Big 12.
- Ibrahima Diallo leads the conference with 1.82 blocked shots per game. As a team, the Knights lead the conference and rank 18th nationally with 5.1 blocks per game.
LAST TIME OUT
- TCU led from start to finish and as many as 23 points in its first win at West Virginia, 93-81, on Wednesday.
- TCU shot 64.3 percent from the field in the first half and finished 55.6 percent, its most in a Big 12 game this year.
- Emanuel Miller scored a team-high 21 points and TCU tied a season-high with 11 3-pointers.
Series History
- TCU leads the all-time series 1-0.
- In the only meeting, TCU defeated UCF, 68-53, in the semifinal of the 2017 NIT at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It was Jamie Dixon's first season as the Horned Frogs head coach and is TCU's only postseason championship.
UP NEXT
- TCU will play in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship starting on Wednesday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.
