Three-Point Barrage Carries No. 10 TCU Past UCF

Tuesday, January 14

Fort Worth, Texas

6:30 PM

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UCF

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Three-Point Barrage Carries No. 10 TCU Past UCF

1/14/2025 11:34:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Horned Frogs drain 15 threes in 90-81 win

FORT WORTH – Tenth-ranked TCU blitzed UCF behind the arc and bulldozed its way to a 90-81 win over the Knights on Tuesday in Schollmaier Arena.

The Horned Frogs began the game 6-8 from long range and tallied 15 three-pointers by the time the final horn sounded. The scalding shooting stroke staked TCU to a 26-8 advantage less than six minutes into the ballgame. The Frogs led by as many as 23 points midway through the third.

The 15 deep balls set a program record for most 3-pointers in a Big 12 game. TCU also assisted on a 29 of its 32 made field goals, good for a Mark Campbell era single-game record and the second-most in a game in 48 years of existence.

TCU improved to 18-1 overall and 6-0 in Big 12 action. The Horned Frogs remain one of only two unbeatens in league play ahead of a top 25 showdown vs. No. 23 Utah at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.

Sedona Prince tallied a team-high 27 points on 11-15 shooting and seven rebounds. Prince hit her first seven shots. She went 4-4 from the field and netted 10 points in the fourth.

Fellow Wooden Award candidate Hailey Van Lith accounted for nearly half of TCU's damage from distance. Van Lith drilled a career-high six 3-pointers, including four over the contest's first 15 minutes, on her way to 20 points.

Madison Conner (14 points) and Donovyn Hunter (12 points) gave TCU four double-digit scorers.

Conner converted 4-9 looks from deep.

TCU led 87-71 with 3:23 to go. An 10-0 run by UCF (7-9, 0-6 Big 12) over the ensuing 2:22 made the game's final moments tenser than desired. TCU, which finished with a 2.5 assist-to-turnover ratio for the game, committed four giveaways in that span. The Horned Frogs led for more than 39 minutes and never trailed.

The Frogs doubled up the Knights, 16-8, barely over four minutes into the evening via four 3-pointers, two of which came from Van Lith. Conner's second 3-pointer of the frame staked TCU to its 26-8 edge at the 3:27 mark and capped a 13-0 run. TCU began the game 10-12 from the field.

Consecutive buckets by Hunter closed the quarter and gave TCU a 30-19 cushion entering the second period. TCU notched a Campbell era record for first quarter points scored.

Van Lith's fourth 3-pointer of the first half swelled the lead to 36-21. Six points from Prince and an Agnes Emma-Nnopu triple helped TCU take a 15-point lead into the locker room.

TCU took its first 20-point lead of the outing via a Conner three and layup from Prince on its first two possessions of the second half. The Horned Frogs and Knights each scored 20 points in the third quarter.

UCF was led by a game-high 33 points from Kaitlin Peterson, who leads the Big 12 in scoring (21 ppg).

TCU produced a 34-32 edge on the glass. Emma-Nnopu snagged six offensive rebounds – two shy of her career high.

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Friday's tilt vs. the Utes will be just the second 'ranked vs. ranked' Big 12 matchup contested inside Schollmaier Arena. The only other time TCU engaged a ranked Big 12 foe with a number next to its name occurred on Feb. 7, 2018, when the 24^th-ranked Horned Frogs fell 71-54 to No. 22 Oklahoma State.

Team Notes

TCU broke its single-game student attendance record for a women's basketball game, as an announced 562 students packed the purple bleachers for Tuesday's tilt.
TCU notched the second-longest winning streak spanning a single season in program history, earning its 13^thconsecutive victory at home in 2024-25 with Tuesday's triumph.
The Horned Frogs are now three wins inside Schollmaier Arena away from attaining the longest single-season home winning streak in program history. The 2003-04 TCU squad's undefeated 15-0 mark in Daniel Meyer Coliseum still tops the record book.
TCU has now won 16 consecutive games inside Schollmaier Arena dating back to a 59-49 win over Houston on Feb. 24.
The Frogs have won 10 of their last 11 conference tilts.
Tuesday's win staked the Horned Frogs to their second-longest Big 12 winning streak in 13 seasons of conference affiliation at six games.
TCU improved to 6-0 all-time vs. the Knights.
TCU earned third 9-game winning streak in the Campbell era and second in 2024-25.
TCU was 12-16 from the field and 6-9 from downtown in the first quarter.
TCU scored 90-plus points for a program record sixth time this season.
The Horned Frogs 91 percent assist rate was the second highest in the Campbell era, trailing only the 2023-24 squad's 92 percent clip (23-25) vs. Kansas on Feb. 3, 2024.
TCU is averaging 85 points per game at home this season.
The Horned Frogs' 90 points scored were their second-most in a Big 12 game, trailing only the 92 they scored in a 40-point win at the expense of the Knights on Dec. 21.

Individual Notes

Prince has scored at least 20 points in four straight outings and in five of her six Big 12 tilts this season.
Prince is now averaging 21.6 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3.2 blocks in Big 12 play for her career.
Prince leads the Big 12 in scoring in conference affairs with an average of 22.3 points per game.
Prince's 27 points were her most in a Big 12 home affair.
Van Lith dished out seven assists for the second straight game.
Van Lith is now eight assists shy of reaching 500 for her career.
Van Lith finished with at least 20 points and seven assists for the seventh time in her career and fifth this season.
Emma-Nnopu is the only Big 12 guard who has pulled down six-or-more offensive rebounds in multiple games this season.
Conner notched her NCAA-leading 12^th game with at least four 3-pointers.
Conner has now drained four-or-more 3-pointers for the 18^th time in 28 appearances in Schollmaier Arena.
Conner continues to lead the NCAA in 3-pointers (74).
Conner also finished with six assists for the fifth game this season.
Hunter's 12 points were two shy of her season high.
Aaliyah Roberson scored nine points off the bench for the second straight game.
TCU awarded Ella Hamlin a full scholarship following the final horn. Hamlin was one of four players who accepted a preferred walk-on invitation to join TCU's roster midway through the 2023-24 season. Hamlin's first game in a TCU jersey took place almost a year to the date of Tuesday's game and against the same opponent. She helped TCU pull off a 66-60 win over the Knights on Jan. 23, 2024 in its return from a 10-day injury-induced pause to its season.