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1/13/2025 2:20:00 PM | Women's Basketball
No. 10 TCU returns home for rematch with Knights at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday
FORT WORTH – TCU is back in the top 10 and back at home.
The Horned Frogs received the No. 10 ranking in The Associated Press poll ahead of their Tuesday night tilt vs. UCF inside Schollmaier Arena.
The poll placement marks the second AP Top 10 ranking in program history, both of which have occurred this season.
TCU carries its best start to Big 12 play into its rematch with the Knights. The Horned Frogs are 5-0 in league play. Their first victory came at the expense of UCF, a 92-52 win on Dec. 21 in Orlando. The 40-point margin of victory was TCU's largest in a Big 12 game in 13 years of conference membership.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (17-1, 5-0 Big 12) vs. UCF (7-8, 0-5 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Jan. 14
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
88.7 KTCU FM
The Horned Frogs received the No. 10 ranking in The Associated Press poll ahead of their Tuesday night tilt vs. UCF inside Schollmaier Arena.
The poll placement marks the second AP Top 10 ranking in program history, both of which have occurred this season.
TCU carries its best start to Big 12 play into its rematch with the Knights. The Horned Frogs are 5-0 in league play. Their first victory came at the expense of UCF, a 92-52 win on Dec. 21 in Orlando. The 40-point margin of victory was TCU's largest in a Big 12 game in 13 years of conference membership.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (17-1, 5-0 Big 12) vs. UCF (7-8, 0-5 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Jan. 14
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
- Ron Thulin, Play-by-Play
- Jada Curtis, Analyst
88.7 KTCU FM
- Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
- TCU is enjoying a 15-game home winning streak spanning the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
- TCU is 9-1 over its last 10 conference games dating back to February of 2024.
- The Horned Frogs are averaging 85 points per game across 12 home tilts.
- TCU's average margin of victory at home is 35 points.
- Visitors are averaging just 49.7 points per game in Schollmaier Arena. All-but-three teams have failed to eclipse 55 points.
- TCU notched its largest margin of victory in a Big 12 game in its 92-52 win over the Knights on Dec. 21. The Frogs' 92 points scored were their most ever in a Big 12 away affair.
- Madison Conner, Sedona Prince and Hailey Van Lith combined for 60 points in their December visit to Orlando. The trio accounts for 69 percent of TCU's scoring (266-384 points) in league play.
- TCU earned its second AP Top 10 ranking in program history on Monday.
- The Horned Frogs are enjoying a program-record run of 10 straight weeks with a top 20 ranking in The Associated Press poll.
- TCU has been slotted eighth in the NCAA NET rankings ahead of seven consecutive games.
- TCU is now tied for the D1 lead in blocks (121) after rejecting 10 shots on Saturday at Texas Tech.
- TCU is one of three teams alongside UConn and K-State ranking in the top-five nationally in assists (3rd, 361), assist-to-turnover ratio (4th, 1.79) and assists per game (5th, 20.1).
- The Frogs have held 14 of 17 teams below their season scoring average.
- Ahead of Saturday's bout, 13 of 17 teams have failed to shoot better than 35 percent from the field against the Frogs, including eight of 12 at home.
- TCU set a program record for fewest points allowed in a Big 12 road game in its 69-43 win at Texas Tech.
- Texas Tech became the 10th team TCU has prevented from scoring at least 50 points this year.
- TCU ranks second and 10th among all D1 programs in 3-pointers (177) and 3-pointers per game (9.8).
- The Horned Frogs average 11 three-pointers per game at home.
- TCU is home to the nation's third-highest scoring duo in Prince and Van Lith, who average 36.4 combined points per game. They averaged a combined 41.5 points, 16 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game in the Frogs' road wins at Kansas and Texas Tech last week.
- TCU is one of three teams with three players averaging at least 16 points per game.
- Prince received her school record fifth Big 12 player of the Week accolade on Monday. She led the league in scoring, rebounding and blocks in the Frogs' pair of road wins.
- Prince has produced a double-double in seven of her 10 career Big 12 games.
- Prince is tied for 13th nationally in double-doubles following her 20-point, 10-rebound, five-block performance in Lubbock.
- Prince continues to top the D1 ranks in blocks (62) and blocks per game (3.7). She has finished with three-or-more blocks in 11 games this season, including four of five in conference play.
- Prince is one of only two players in America averaging at least 18 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Conner is shooting 49 percent from deep (30-61) over TCU's last seven outings.
- Conner notched her NCAA-leading 11th game with at least four 3-pointers this season at Texas Tech, converting 4-8 looks from distance.
- Conner regained the national lead for 3-pointers (70) on Saturday. Her average of 3.9 deep balls per game ranks second in the country.
- Conner has drilled 170 three-pointers over the last two seasons. The only player who has made more in that span is Caitlin Clark.
- Conner averages 4.4 three-pointers per game at home. She has connected four-plus times from downtown in 17 of her 27 outings inside Schollmaier Arena.
- Van Lith moved to fourth in the country in total assists (110) following her 22-point, seven-assist effort at Texas Tech. She led all players in assists for the 13th time this season.
- Van Lith shot 50 percent or better from the field and finished with at least five made buckets for the ninth time vs. Texas Tech, shooting 7-14 from the field. She tallied 16 of her points in the second half.
- Van Lith is the lone D1 player averaging at least 17 points, six assists and 4.5 rebounds per game.
- Van Lith is dishing out 6.5 dimes per game in TCU's eight games vs. top 100 teams in the NCAA NET.
- Aaliyah Roberson has shot 52 percent (14-27) from the field over her last six outings. She is second among Big 12 forwards in effective field goal percentage (.636).
- Stake TCU to its second-longest Big 12 winning streak in program history at six games.
- Send the Horned Frogs to their second-longest home winning streak spanning a single season in 48 years of existence.
- Put TCU within five victories inside Schollmaier Arena from notching a single-season record for home wins.
- Pull TCU to 12-12 in Big 12 action under head coach Mark Campbell.
- Swell Campbell's career record in Schollmaier arena to 29-4 (.878).
- Extend TCU's home winning streak to 15 games dating back to its 59-49 takedown of Houston on Feb. 24.
- Give the Horned Frogs their third 9-game winning streak in the Campbell era and second in 2024-25.
- Lift TCU to only its second 6-game winning streak in Big 12 play in 13 seasons of membership.
- In addition to points and margin of victory, TCU set Mark Campbell era Big 12 single-game records for rebounds (44) and field goals (33) in December's victory over the Knights.
- TCU held UCF to its fewest points scored in a game all year in its 92-52 win on Dec. 21.
- Madison Conner scored 20 of her game-high 24 points in the first half of TCU's Christmastime visit to Orlando.
- Sedona Prince netted 22 points and seven boards vs. UCF in the teams' last meeting, one of seven career 20-point games in Big 12 play for the 6-7 center.
- TCU has outscored the Knights 55-29 in the first quarter in its two Big 12 bouts opposite UCF.
- Last season's home tilt vs. the Knights F was the Horned Frogs' first game back from 10-day injury induced hiatus that led to forfeits of its games vs. Kansas State and Iowa State the previous. The Frogs held open tryouts just four days before returning to the court vs. the Knights and added four preferred walk-ons, including sophomore guard Ella Hamlin.
- TCU played its second-ever game as a Big 12 affiliate opposite the Knights in its 61-55 home win on Nov. 16, 2012.
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