Preview: Cincinnati

FORT WORTH – No. 11 TCU caps a three-game homestand with a 7 p.m. tilt vs. Cincinnati on Saturday in Schollmaier Arena.

The Horned Frogs have won six of their last seven Big 12 bouts since defeating the Bearcats, 79-72, on Feb. 17 in the Ohio Valley in the teams' first meeting as conference foes.

TCU is one of four remaining unbeatens in the conference standings following its 63-50 win against Colorado on Wednesday. The Bearcats scored 20 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to fuel an 11-point comeback victory vs. BYU earlier in the day.

The Horned Frogs will attain their first-ever 15-1 start to a season with a win over Cincinnati.

The Game
Teams: No. 11 TCU (14-1, 2-0 Big 12) vs. Cincinnati (9-3, 1-1 Big 12)
Date: 7 p.m. CT on Saturday, Jan. 4
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas

Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+

Ron Thulin, Play-by-Play
Jada Curtis, Analyst

Radio
88.7 KTCU FM

Chris Blake, Play-by-Play

Opening Tip

TCU is in search of its first 3-0 start to Big 12 play in program history.
TCU is 14-1 to begin a season for the second straight year, having matched its best start to a season in Wednesday's win against Colorado.
TCU has won six of its last seven Big 12 tilts dating back to a 79-72 win at Cincinnati on Feb. 17.
Madison Conner netted 31 points in last season's win over the Bearcats, one of her school record five 30-point performances. She had missed TCU's previous six games due to injury.
The Horned Frogs halted a 25-game Big 12 road losing streak with their triumph in Ohio.
TCU's average margin of victory at home this season is 36.6 points.
The Frogs have kept nine of their 11 guests under 55 points in Schollmaier Arena. Thus far, eight opponents have failed to exceed 50 points against TCU along Stadium Dr.

Frog Focus

TCU has been the highest-ranked Big 12 team in The Associated Press poll for five straight weeks.
TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top five in the country in assists (3rd, 305), assist-to-turnover ratio (4th, 1.83) and assists per game (5th, 20.3).
The Horned Frogs have recorded 20-plus assists in eight of 11 home games this season. They average 22 assists per game in Schollmaier Arena.
TCU ranks fourth in the country in total threes over the last two seasons with 467. The Frogs are also one of just 11 teams overall and three at the Power Conference level alongside Iowa and Utah averaging at least nine makes from distance in that span.
TCU leads the Big 12 and is second and seventh, respectively, among all D1 programs in 3-pointers (155) and 3-pointers per game (10.3). The Frogs trail only Tennessee for the national lead in threes.
TCU leads the country in games with 11-or-more three-pointers (nine). The Horned Frogs are also the only team to have connected from distance at least 15 times on three occasions this season.
The Horned Frogs have knocked down 12-or-more 3-pointers 16 times in the last two seasons.
TCU has reached double figures in 3-pointers in 10 of its 15 contests. On the other end, 11 opponents have connected five times or less from distance.
The Frogs have held 12 of 14 teams below their season scoring average.
Ahead of Saturday's bout, 12 of 15 teams have failed to shoot better than 35 percent from the field against the Horned Frogs, including
Sedona Prince is averaging 18.3 points, 11.3 rebounds and 3.5 blocks against teams in the top 100 of the NCAA NET rankings. She has notched a double-double in four of TCU's six tilts vs. top 100 foes.
Prince continues to lead the country in blocks (52, 3.7 bpg). She rejected three shots for the 25th time in her career vs. Colorado as a part of a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double.
Prince is one of two D1 players averaging 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
Hailey Van Lith is fourth among all D1 players in total assists (92).
Van Lith has led TCU in scoring in four of its six tilts vs. teams in the top 100 of the NCAA NET. She is averaging seven assists per game in corresponding contests.
Van Lith is the lone D1 player averaging at least 18 points, six assists and 4.5 rebounds per game.
Van Lith is exactly halfway to becoming TCU's all-time single-season assists leader. She needs 92 assists to match Natasha Lacy's program record 184 dimes in the 2003-04 campaign.
Conner ranks second in the country in 3-pointers (54) and 3-pointers per game (3.9).
Conner is one of the most efficient high volume 3-point shooters in D1 basketball. She leads the country in attempts behind the arc with 132. Her 3-point percentage (.439) ranks third among players with at least 100 3-point attempts and 50 makes from distance. She ranks third and fifth, respectively, in 3-pointers per 100 possessions (7.1) and 3-pointers per 40 minutes (5.0).
Conner averages 4.3 three-pointers per game at home. She has connected four-plus times from downtown in 16 of her 26 outings inside Schollmaier Arena.
Conner drilled four-plus 3-pointers for the 21st time in the last two seasons on Sunday vs. Brown, a mark that ranks second among all active D1 players since 2023.
Agnes Emma-Nnopu ranks third among all Big 12 guards 5-11-or-shorter in rebounds per game (6.3).
Emma-Nnopu has averaged 10 rebounds and 7.2 points per game since returning to the Horned Frogs' starting lineup vs. Louisiana Tech on Dec. 15.
Aaliyah Roberson has been a sparkplug off the bench. She has shot 10-19 (52.6 percent) from the field over her last four outings. She is third among Big 12 forwards in effective field goal percentage (.638).

A Win Over the Bearcats Would…

Stake TCU to its third six-game winning streak in the Mark Campbell era.
Lift TCU's Big 12 record to 9-12 under Campbell.
Extend TCU's home Big 12 winning streak to four games.
Count as TCU's 79th all-time Big 12 win.
Make TCU 7-3 over its last 10 conference tilts.
Improve TCU's record as a ranked team to 14-3 in the Campbell era.
Extend TCU's home winning streak to 15 games dating back to its 59-49 takedown of Houston on Feb. 24.
Swell Campbell's career record in Schollmaier arena to 28-4 (.875).
Send TCU to its sixth all-time 3-0 start to conference play and first since winning its opening trio of games in its penultimate season in the Mountain West Conference in 2010-11.
Be the second time TCU has won three straight conference games under Campbell.

Series Notes: Cincinnati

TCU and Cincinnati were members of the Conference USA from 2002-04.
The Horned Frogs are 2-0 vs. Cincinnati in postseason events, having downed the Bearcats in the 2002-03 C-USA Tournament.
TCU captured its first of two C-USA tournament titles with its 85-76 overtime victory over the Bearcats on March 9, 2003, in Memphis, Tenn.
Sandora Irvin set a TCU conference tournament record for rebounds (19) against the Bearcats in the Frogs' C-USA Championship win.
Madison Conner scored 22 of her game-high 31 points in the first half of TCU's 79-72 triumph on Feb. 17 in the Ohio Valley. She finished 7-15 from behind the arc.
TCU led by 14 points, 61-47, entering the fourth quarter of its seven-point win in February in Cincinnati.
The Horned Frogs held the Bearcats to 36 percent shooting (21-58) and committed a season-low six turnovers in February's victory.
Agnes Emma-Nnopu led TCU with seven rebounds in its first matchup opposite Cincinnati as Big 12 adversaries.

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