Sunday, March 2
Waco, Texas
5:30 PM
TCU
at
Baylor
Preview: at No. 17 Baylor
2/28/2025 7:51:00 PM | Women's Basketball
No. 10 TCU to challenge for university's first Big 12 basketball championship
FORT WORTH– Forty minutes against its oldest rival in a city it once called home is what stands between TCU and the school's first Big 12 basketball championship.
The Horned Frogs are set to battle Baylor at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday in Waco for the undisputed Big 12 regular season title.
No. 10 TCU claimed the season's head-to-head between the programs, defeating the 17th-ranked Bears 80-75 on Jan. 26 in Fort Worth.
The Frogs will be looking to upset the balance of power across the league on Sunday. Baylor has claimed 13 of the last 19 regular season championships. TCU will become one of only two teams in the history of the conference to win a championship within finishing last place in the league.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (27-3, 15-2 Big 12) at No. 17 Baylor (26-5, 15-2 Big 12)
Date: 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 2
Location: Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
FS1
88.7 KTCU FM
The Horned Frogs are set to battle Baylor at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday in Waco for the undisputed Big 12 regular season title.
No. 10 TCU claimed the season's head-to-head between the programs, defeating the 17th-ranked Bears 80-75 on Jan. 26 in Fort Worth.
The Frogs will be looking to upset the balance of power across the league on Sunday. Baylor has claimed 13 of the last 19 regular season championships. TCU will become one of only two teams in the history of the conference to win a championship within finishing last place in the league.
The Game
Teams: No. 10 TCU (27-3, 15-2 Big 12) at No. 17 Baylor (26-5, 15-2 Big 12)
Date: 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 2
Location: Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
FS1
- Elise Woodward, Play-by-Play
- Madison Hock, Analyst
88.7 KTCU FM
- Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
- Sunday's rivalry is the first time the undisputed Big 12 Championship will be decided in the final game of the regular season.
- The game also marks just the fourth time since 1999-00 that an outright Power Conference regular season champion will be crowned on the last day of the regular season.
- TCU will win its first Big 12 Basketball Championship - men's or women's - with a victory in Waco.
- A Big 12 title would signify the Horned Frogs' first regular season or tournament championship on the hardwood in 20 seasons. The Horned Frogs have won three regular season conference championships in their 48-season history, most recently the 2012 Mountain West Conference Championship.
- TCU will become the 11th program in the history of the Big 12 to win a regular season women's basketball championship should it defeat the Bears.
- TCU earned a top-two seed in the Big 12 Championship for the second time in 13 seasons of conference membership via Wednesday's 91-56 win against Houston.
- By virtue of TCU's guaranteed first or second place finish in the Big 12 standings, all four of Mark Campbell's have met or outperformed their preseason conference projections. TCU was picked to finish fourth in the Big 12 Preseason Poll.
- Campbell has generated a 41-game combined year-over-year win improvement across his four years as a head coach. Campbell has facilitated the largest combined year-over-year win improvement of any Power Conference head coach over the last two seasons at 19 games.
- Through Campbell's leadership, TCU has produced the largest year-over conference win percentage increase of any Power Conference team in 2024-25 (+.549, nine wins).
- Campbell is one of only two head coaches in Big 12 history alongside Nicki Collen to win 15-or-more conference games in his/her first or second season in the league.
- TCU has knocked down and NCAA leading 294 three-pointers in 2024-25.
- The Horned Frogs will soon join Iowa State (1999-01) as one of only two programs to drain at least 300 three-pointers in consecutive seasons.
- TCU, along with Utah, is one of only two teams in America ranking in the top 10 in 3-pointers, 3-pointers per game (7th, 9.8) and 3-point percentage (9th, .376).
- TCU has reached double figures in 3-pointers in 15 games, the second most of any team in the country.
- The Frogs are one of three teams ranking in the top 15 in the nation in field goal percentage (8th, .478) and 3-point percentage. The others are No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 14 Kansas State.
- TCU boasts the second-best assist-to-turnover ratio in the country (1.69). The Frogs are also one of three teams ranking in the top five in both assist-to-turnover ratio and assists (4th, 583).
- TCU has dished out 20 assists in a league-leading 15 games, including four of its last five victories.
- The Frogs have finished with 80-plus points in 17 games, tied for the seventh-most nationally. The Horned Frogs have eclipsed the 80-point threshold in 10 of their conference wins.
- Sedona Prince, Madison Conner and Hailey Van Lith combined for 64 points in TCU's 80-75 victory against Baylor on Jan. 26. They have scored 60-plus collectively on eight occasions this season.
- Including Baylor, TCU has kept 23 of 29 teams below their season scoring average and 50 of 61 over the last two years. Across TCU's half-dozen bouts vs. ranked teams, only South Carolina has met or exceeded its points per game rate against the Horned Frogs' defense.
- Prince, Conner and Van Lith are the third-highest scoring trio in the nation, averaging a combined 50.5 points per game. They account for 64 percent of TCU's offense in conference play.
- Against ranked teams, the trio is averaging a combined 51.5 points per game. Prince and Van Lith net an average of 19.7 points and 19 points per night, respectively vs. AP Top 25 foes.
- Prince and Conner finished with 24 points and 21 points, respectively, vs. Baylor in January, one of eight games overall and six in Big 12 play in which TCU has had two players score 20-plus.
- Conner continues to top the national charts in 3-pointers (106).
- Conner leads the nation in games with four-or-more 3-pointers (17). She shot 4-8 from distance vs. Baylor in January.
- 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 is one of two D1 players averaging at least 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
- Van Lith is averaging 17.5 points and 6.3 assists per game across TCU's 11 road or neutral site affairs. She has netted at least 15 points and five assists in six of TCU's games away from home.
- Make TCU one of only three teams since 2011 to sweep a regular season series with Baylor.
- Mark only the second time TCU has won consecutive games vs. the Bears and first since 1990.
- Count as the 15th regular season conference championship in TCU men's or women's basketball history and first since the 2005 women's team claimed the crown in the Conference USA.
- Signify the seventh regular season or conference tournament title in program history.
- Lift TCU to its third all-time win in Waco and first since a 73-70 victory on Jan. 27, 1990.
- Be TCU's first ranked road win in 19 tries. The Horned Frogs last beat a ranked team on the road on Jan. 3, 2020, in a 65-63 triumph over No. 25 Texas in Austin.
- Send TCU to its league-leading sixth ranked victory.
- Tie the 2019-20 squad for the most Big 12 road wins in a season (seven).
- Anoint TCU, along with Baylor, as one of only two active members of the Big 12 Conference to finish with 16 wins in league play in a season.
- Sunday's game is the third straight ranked matchup between the Horned Frogs and Bears. TCU and Baylor had never previously engaged one another in a 'ranked vs. ranked' battle prior to their 2023-24 matchup.
- TCU took part in the first women's basketball game played inside Foster Pavilion in their last visit to Waco on Jan. 3, 2024.
- The Horned Frogs' 71-50 defeat to the Bears in 2024 was one of just four occasions in the last two seasons TCU has lost when leading at halftime.
- Sedona Prince and Madison Conner combined for 45 points in the Horned Frogs' 80-75 victory against the Bears on Jan. 26. TCU is the only team in the country to have two players score 20-plus at Baylor's expense this season.
- Prince has faced Baylor twice and had at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in each game. Only one other active player has a 20-10 game vs. the Bears – K-State's Ayoka Lee.
- Prince finished with 20 points, 10 rebounds and five rebounds while playing the full 40 minutes for the first time in her career in last season's loss at Baylor. She did so despite breaking her finger on the first possession of the ballgame.
- Prince broke Sandora Irvin's 2004 program record for most consecutive 20-point games in TCU's victory against the Bears on Jan. 26, powering home a 24-point, 14-rebound double-double. The game was her seventh straight with at least 20 points.
- With a win on Sunday, TCU will become just the second team in Big 12 Conference history to win a regular season championship within two seasons of finishing in last place. Kansas State won the 2008 Big 12 regular season title after finishing in the cellar the previous season.
- TCU's increase of nine conference wins from last season is the biggest year-over win improvement in conference play by a Big 12 team since Nebraska's 10-win increase from 2008-09 to 2009-10.
- A win on Sunday would count as the 15th regular season conference championship in TCU basketball history when including the men's program.
- TCU women's basketball has won three conference regular season championships and a trio of conference tournament titles in its 48-year history. The Frogs swept the 2001 WAC regular season and tournament championships for the program's first league titles.
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