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11/5/2025 2:53:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Horned Frogs host Red Flash at Schollmaier Arena Thursday
FORT WORTH – TCU will host its second of five-straight opponents to begin the season when it welcomes Saint Francis to Schollmaier Arena on Thursday for a 7 p.m. start on TNT. The contest will follow the TCU women's basketball's game against North Carolina A&T at 4 p.m.
NOTES
- It will be the first TNT game broadcast from a Big 12 venue. A pregame show will begin at 6:30. All TNT games this season will be simulcast on truTV.
- TCU's Jamie Dixon and Saint Francis' Luke McConnell are two of 51 D1 head coaches who are at their alma mater.
- TCU lost 73.1 percent of its scoring and 68.6 percent of its rebounding among eight players last season.
- TCU returns nine players and welcome seven newcomers as well as two others who redshirted last season.
- TCU returns six "scholarship" players from last season, the second most in the Big 12 only to Houston's nine.
- Of TCU's returning players, four averaged over 10 minutes per game last season with David Punch (20.4), Micah Robinson (14.1), Jace Posey (12.8) and Malick Diallo (10.9).
- Diallo suffered a season-ending injury with a torn ACL in his left knee during Monday's game vs. New Orleans.
- Posey missed Monday's game due to a precautionary medical reason.
- Punch is the team's leading returning scorer and rebounder at 6.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.
- Punch tied a career high in points (19), rebounds (8) and field goals (9) in the season-opener Monday.
- Robinson set new career highs with 14 points and six rebounds on Monday.
- Making up the bulk of the backcourt are newcomers Brock Harding (Iowa) and Jayden Pierre (Providence).
- Harding ranked fourth in the Big Ten with 5.3 assists last season and averaged 8.8 points.
- Pierre, who scored 11 points on Monday, averaged 12.3 points and a team-best 3.2 assists last season.
- Newcomers on the wing are Oregon State transfer Liutauras Lelevicius and Utah Valley transfer Tanner Toolson.
- TCU has two players in at the center position. Salt Lake Community College transfer Xavier Edmonds was the top JUCO player in the country last season. FIU transfer Vianney Salatchoum did not play on Monday due to illness.
- On the roster are four of TCU's top nine recruits since 247Sports began tracking in 2000. Freshman and Fort Worth native Kayden Edwards is the third-best recruit TCU has had.
- TCU's schedule consists of five teams currently in the Preseason AP Top 10 and eight in the Top 25.
- For the second-straight year, TCU was picked 10th in the Big 12 Preseason Poll, voted on by the league's coaches.|
- It is Jamie Dixon's 10th season with the Horned Frogs. His 504 career wins ranks 21st among active coaches.
- Dixon was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in August.
- Dixon is one of just 11 active head coaches who have made at least 15 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
SERIES HISTORY
- It is the first meeting between TCU and Saint Francis.
- Jamie Dixon went 3-0 against the Red Flash during his 13-years as head coach at Pittsburgh. Saint Francis is located 80 miles west of Pittsburgh. SFU head coach Luke McConnell was a senior on the Red Flash football team the last time Dixon faced SFU in 2011.
LAST TIME OUT
- TCU dropped its season-opener to New Orleans, 78-74, on Monday at Schollmaier Arena.
- The Horned Frogs used a 20-2 scoring run to cut what was a 21-point second-half deficit to two-points with 1:20 to play. TCU lost despite forcing 19 turnovers.
UP NEXT
- TCU will host Lamar on Monday at 7 p.m. before a matchup with No. 7 Michigan on Friday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m.
