
Preview: Houston
2/25/2025 3:10:00 PM | Women's Basketball
No. 10 TCU looks to lock up double bye in Big 12 Championship with win
FORT WORTH– No. 10 TCU looks to put a bow on an undefeated season inside Schollmaier Arena when it hosts Houston at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Horned Frogs enter their final regular season game from Fort Worth as winners of 21 straight home tilts.
A win over last-place Houston sets up a winner-take-all showdown at No. 17 Baylor on Sunday for the undisputed Big 12 Championship.
TCU will host senior night following the final horn and honor seven graduating players; Madison Conner, Agnes Emma-Nnopu, Una Jovanovic, Deasia Merrill, Sedona Prince, DaiJa Turner and Hailey Van Lith.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (26-3, 14-2 Big 12) vs. Houston (5-22, 1-15 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
88.7 KTCU FM
The Horned Frogs enter their final regular season game from Fort Worth as winners of 21 straight home tilts.
A win over last-place Houston sets up a winner-take-all showdown at No. 17 Baylor on Sunday for the undisputed Big 12 Championship.
TCU will host senior night following the final horn and honor seven graduating players; Madison Conner, Agnes Emma-Nnopu, Una Jovanovic, Deasia Merrill, Sedona Prince, DaiJa Turner and Hailey Van Lith.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (26-3, 14-2 Big 12) vs. Houston (5-22, 1-15 Big 12)
Date: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26
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 will lock up a top-two seed and double bye in the Big 12 Championship with a defeat of Houston.
- TCU will match its best finish in conference play in 13 seasons of Big 12 membership should it triumph over Houston. The Frogs finished a solo second at 13-5 in league play in 2019-20.
- The 2024-25 TCU women's basketball team will become just the second squad in the program's 48 seasons of existence to run the table at home with a win on Wednesday.
- TCU has won 21 straight games at Schollmaier Arena, the longest home winning streak in the Big 12.
- With potentially three home games still on the docket, TCU has already enjoyed a 27 percent increase in total fan attendance from the 2023-24 campaign.
- The Horned Frogs achieved their seventh all-time AP Top 10 ranking and of the season on Monday. TCU has been the highest-rated Big 12 team in 13 straight polls dating back to Dec. 2.
- TCU averages 82.1 points per game at home. Fourteen of its 18 wins have come by at least 15 points.
- TCU has finished with 80-plus points in 16 games, tied for the sixth-most nationally. The Horned Frogs have eclipsed the 80-point threshold in nine of their 14 conference wins.
- TCU's scoring margin (+21.9) is the eighth-best mark in America. Fifteen of the Frogs' wins have been by at least 20 points.
- The Frogs rank third nationally in 3-pointers (281) and ninth in 3-pointers per game (9.7).
- TCU will become only the Big 12 program to drain at least 300 threes in consecutive seasons should it connect 19 more times from distance. Iowa State achieved the feat from 2000-01.
- TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top 15 in the nation in both field goal percentage (8th, .477) and 3-point percentage (10th, .373). The others are No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 14 Kansas State.
- TCU continues to be one of only three teams in the country ranking in the top 10 nationally in
- assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.67), assists (5th, 561) and assists per game (7th, 19.3).
- The Frogs have finished with 20-plus assists in 14 games, including 11 of 18 at home.
- TCU has led at halftime in all 26 of its conference contests and 27-of-29 overall.
- The Frogs held No. 17 West Virginia to season-lows in total points, first half points (20) and field goal percentage (.305) in Sunday's 21-point win. The Mountaineers became the 13th team in 2024-25 to score 50-or-fewer points vs. TCU's defense.
- TCU has kept 22 of 28 teams below their season scoring average and 49 of 60 over the last two years.
- Sedona Prince scored 20-plus for the 13th time in 21 career Big 12 games and 10th this season on Sunday, finishing with 20 points, eight rebound and seven blocks against West Virginia.
- Prince ranks fourth in the nation in blocks (90) and blocks per game (3.2). She is the only player to record six-or-more blocks in multiple games vs. the AP Top 25 this season.
- Prince sent back four-or-more shots for the 15th time in her career and ninth this season vs. WVU.
- Prince is one of two D1 players averaging at least 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Prince averages 19.5 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game for her career in Schollmaier Arena.
- Hailey Van Lith was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the second time in the last four weeks on Monday. TCU has claimed the accolade a league-leading six times this season.
- Van Lith is one of seven players in America with at least 155 assists and an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.1-or-better. She ranks 10th across the D1 ranks in total assists with 160.
- Van Lith has finished with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.5-or-better in 12 outings as a Horned Frog.
- Madison Conner continues to top the national charts in 3-pointers (101)
- Conner averages 4.3 threes per game at home. She has connected four-plus times from downtown in 20 of her 33 career outings inside Schollmaier Arena.
- Aaliyah Roberson is shooting 58 percent from the floor (36-62) and 57 percent (20-35) behind the arc over her last 19 outings. She leads all D1 posts in effective field goal percentage (.706).
- Donovyn Hunter has produced a 2.6 assist-to-turnover ratio (26-10) over her last four games. She ranks ninth in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.89).
- Mark Campbell has generated a 40-game combined year-over-year win improvement across his four seasons as a head coach. He was tabbed to the Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List.
- Campbell will join Baylor's Nicki Collen as one of two coaches in the history of the Big 12 to win 15-or-more conference games in either their first or second season as head coach in the league with a win over the Cougars.
- Guarantee the Horned Frogs their best finish in the Big 12 standings in 13 seasons of conference membership. TCU placed a solo second in 2019-20 with a 13-5 league record.
- Make the 2024-25 TCU women's basketball team the 21st in the history of the Big 12 to win 15-or-more conference games.
- Mark only the second season in which TCU has finished unbeaten at home and first since the 2008-09 Horned Frogs team went 15-0 inside Daniel Meyer Coliseum.
- Boost TCU's combined overall record inside Schollmaier Arena to 35-4 (.897) in the Mark Campbell era.
- Be TCU's 700th all-time win.
- Tie for the second-longest Big 12 winning streak in program history, trailing only the squad's run of seven straight conference victories from Jan. 1-17.
- Stake TCU to its 19th win in its last 22 league affairs.
- TCU and Houston have shared a conference affiliation three times. The Horned Frogs and Cougars played twice per season from 1984-1996 as Southwest Conference members and were both Conference USA affiliates from 2002-2005.
- TCU holds an 12-7 advantage in the all-time series following the disbandment of the Southwest Conference in 1996.
- Former Horned Frogs head coach Jeff Mittie scheduled the Cougars annually from 2006-2012 even after TCU departed the Conference USA for the Mountain West.
- Sedona Prince returned from a seven-week injury absence in TCU's 59-49 win over the Cougars on Feb. 24, 2024.
- TCU notched its longest scoring run ever in a Big 12 game in last season's win against Houston, scoring 19 unanswered points to assume a 22-7 lead midway through the second frame. Houston scored just 29 points over the first three quarters.
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