TCU
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Preview: Lamar
11/8/2025 11:47:00 AM | Men's Basketball
TCU hosts Lamar at 7 p.m. on Monday
FORT WORTH – TCU will host its third of five-straight opponents to begin the season when it hosts Lamar at 7 p.m. on Monday. The game will air on ESPN+.
NOTES
- TCU's Jamie Dixon and Lamar's Alvin Brooks are two of 51 D1 head coaches who are at their alma mater.
- Monday is Dixon's 60th birthday. He is 3-0 all-time as a coach on his birthday.
- Redshirt freshman guard Ashton Simmons is from Beaumont, Texas, home of Lamar University.
- Following a 25-point performance Thursday, Tanner Toolson leads the Horned Frogs with 16.0 points per game.
- Leading the Frogs in rebounding are returners David Punch and Micah Robinson with 8.0 per game.
- Robinson is coming off his first-career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
- Iowa transfer Brock Harding is one of three players nationally with 10 or more assists (11) and zero turnovers.
- Punch, Robinson and newcomer Xavier Edmonds have scored in double figures in their first two games.
- Edmonds, the top JUCO player in the nation last year, started his first game against Saint Francis and finished with 12 points and nine rebounds in 18 minutes of play.
- Providence transfer Jayden Pierre's next game played will be career No. 100. He's also one point shy of 800.
- 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 Punch (20.4), 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.
- TCU's schedule consists of five teams 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.
- Under Dixon, TCU has a record of 47-8 in November and 85-19 in November and December combined.
- Under Dixon, TCU is 104-18 against nonconference teams overall and 70-6 against nonconference opponents at Schollmaier Arena.
- 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.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
- Lamar is 1-0 on the season following a 93-53 over Texas A&M-San Antonio on Nov. 3.
- Freshman Jayden Gambrell scored 27 points in what was officially the fourth game of the NCAA D1 basketball season after a 11 a.m. start time.
- Prior to the season, Lamar took a trip to Puerto Rico in August and went 3-0 in exhibition games there.
- Last season, the Cardinals went 20-13 overall and 14-6 in the Southland Conference, setting a single-season school record for SLC wins and return two starters and six letterwinners. Those numbers don't include B.B. Knight, who was sidelined last season due to injury. Knight averaged 10.7 points and shot 37 percent from three in the 2023-24 season.
SERIES HISTORY
- TCU leads the series 11-2 with a 9-0 advantage in Schollmaier Arena and a five-game winning streak in the series.
- The teams have met twice while Dixon has been the head coach. TCU won 79-50 on Dec. 14, 2019 and then 77-66 on Nov. 11, 2022. In the last meeting, Mike Miles Jr. scored a game-high 26 points.
- Lamar's last win in the series was Dec. 1, 1986 in Beaumont.
LAST TIME OUT
- TCU made 12 3-pointers outrebounded Saint Frances 48-22 in a 104-63 win over Saint Francis on Thursday.
- The Horned Frogs amassed a 49-point lead with 1:52 to play, which is the largest lead by a Dixon-led TCU team.
- The 12 made 3-pointers were the most by TCU since draining 13 threes at Kansas on March 3, 2020.
- All 15 players that suited up were able to see action on the floor and all but four scored.
UP NEXT
- TCU will host No. 7 Michigan on Friday at 8 p.m. The game will air on ESPN+. It will be the highest-ranked nonconference team to visit Schollmaier Arena since welcoming No. 1 Kansas on Dec. 1, 2003.
