Wednesday, February 5
Manhattan, Kan.
6:30 PM
TCU
at
Kansas State
Preview: at No. 12 Kansas State
2/4/2025 12:30:00 PM | Women's Basketball
First place in Big 12 standings on the line as TCU visits Manhattan
FORT WORTH – The most anticipated Big 12 regular season game of the year has arrived, as No. 9 TCU faces 12th-ranked Kansas State in a battle between the league's highest-ranked teams.
The winner of Wednesday's game – set for a 6:30 p.m. tipoff on ESPN+ – assumes sole possession of first place in the Big 12 standings with seven games remaining on each team's schedule.
Kansas State represents TCU's fifth straight opponent featured in the top 30 of the NCAA NET rankings. The Horned Frogs are 3-1 over the grueling three-week gauntlet, with victories over No. 23 Utah, No. 25 Baylor and preseason No. 8 Iowa State.
The Game
Teams: No. 9 TCU (21-2, 9-1 Big 12) at No. 12 Kansas State (21-2, 9-1 Big 12)
Date: 6:303 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Feb. 5
Location: Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan.
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
88.7 KTCU FM
The winner of Wednesday's game – set for a 6:30 p.m. tipoff on ESPN+ – assumes sole possession of first place in the Big 12 standings with seven games remaining on each team's schedule.
Kansas State represents TCU's fifth straight opponent featured in the top 30 of the NCAA NET rankings. The Horned Frogs are 3-1 over the grueling three-week gauntlet, with victories over No. 23 Utah, No. 25 Baylor and preseason No. 8 Iowa State.
The Game
Teams: No. 9 TCU (21-2, 9-1 Big 12) at No. 12 Kansas State (21-2, 9-1 Big 12)
Date: 6:303 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Feb. 5
Location: Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan.
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
- Brian Smoller, Play-by-Play
- Missy Heidrick, Analyst
88.7 KTCU FM
- Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
- TCU and Kansas State are meeting as ranked teams for the first time ever.
- The midweek trip to Manhattan represents the first top-15 conference game in TCU program history.
- Wednesday's winner will assume sole possession of first place in the Big 12 standings.
- The Horned Frogs are 9-9 vs. the Wildcats since Jeff Mittie departed Fort Worth for Kansas State.
- TCU is 4-1 vs. the AP Top 25 this season, having set a single-season record for most ranked victories.
- TCU will earn its eighth all-time win vs. an AP Top 10 opponent with a victory on Wednesday.
- The Horned Frogs have won six of their last eight Big 12 road games.
- TCU averages a league-leading 76.2 points per game away from home in conference play.
- Hailey Van Lith is averaging 19 points, 6.4 assists and five rebounds per game in Big 12 road games.
- TCU has trailed for just 13:25 combined across its five away games in Big 12 action.
- TCU tops the Big 12 and ranks second in the country in 3-pointers with 231 - one shy of the national lead.
- TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-pointers per game (6th, 10.0) and 3-point percentage (7th, .378).
- TCU notched its NCAA-leading ninth game with at least 12 three-pointers in Sunday's 82-69 win at Iowa State, converting 12-26 attempts.
- TCU has finished with 80-plus points in 14 games, tied for the fifth-most nationally.
- The Horned Frogs have eclipsed the 80-point threshold in seven of their nine Big 12 wins.
- TCU has finished with 20-or-more assists in 11 games, the third most of any team in America.
- TCU along with Kansas State and UConn, is one of three teams ranking in the top five nationally in assists (3rd, 450), assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.75) and assists per game (5th, 19.6).
- The Frogs held Iowa State to six points over the final 5:00 of the fourth quarter and 16 points total. TCU's previous four opponents averaged 25.5 points in the final frame.
- TCU had four players score in double figures for the ninth time this season at Iowa State.
- The Horned Frogs picked up a single-season record third victory over a preseason AP Top 10 team with Sunday's win.
- TCU has now at halftime in all 10 of its conference games and in 21 of 23 contests overall.
- Van Lith, Sedona Prince and Madison Conner account for 68 percent of TCU's scoring (528-777 points) in Big 12 play. They have teamed up for 60-plus points in four conference games and eight times overall.
- Van Lith and Prince are the third-highest scoring tandem in America, averaging a combined 37.1 points per game.
- Van Lith is the lone D1 player averaging at least 18.5 points, six assists and 4.5 rebounds per game.
- Including Sunday's win, Van Lith has finished with 15 points and five assists in 13 games this season. Only Kentucky's Georgia Amoore (14) has more 15-and-5 games.
- TCU is 11-0 when Van Lith converts at least 50 percent of her field goal attempts and scores in double figures. She shot 11-21 from the floor in Ames.
- Van Lith is averaging 20.6 points per game over her last seven outings.
- Prince ranks second and third, respectively among all Big 12 players in league play in scoring (20.3 ppg) and rebounding (8.4 rpg).
- Prince has scored 20-plus points in 11 of her 15 career Big 12 games and in seven of 10 this season.
- Prince has recorded a double-double eight times in Big 12 play. For her career, the Frogs are 17-1 in games in which Prince produces a double-double.
- Prince continues to lead the nation in blocks (72) and blocks per game (3.3).
- Conner continues to lead the nation in 3-pointers (83).
- Conner tops the national charts in games with at least four 3-pointers with 13.
- Conner is shooting 48 percent from distance (61-129) over TCU's last 13 games, averaging 47. three-pointers per game in that span.
- Conner has produced the Big 12's second-best assist-to-turnover ratio in league play at 2.6. She has increased her assist-per-game average in conference play to 4.4 this season from 3.0 in 2023-24.
- Van Lith was tabbed Big 12 Co-Player of the Week on Monday after netting a season-high 28 points along with eight assists and five rebounds in Sunday's win at Iowa State.
- Van Lith and Conner were named finalists for the Lieberman Award and Drysdale Award, respectively.
- Van Lith and Prince were two of 50 players chosen to the Ann Meyers-Drysdale National Player of the Year watch list on Monday by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
- Mark the first time TCU has ever held the outright lead in the Big 12 standings.
- Tie for the fifth-highest ranked win in program history.
- Be the second-highest ranked Big 12 victory TCU has earned.
- Count as the Horned Frogs' 15th all-time win over an AP Top 15 team and fourth in Big 12 play. TCU last downed a top 15 conference foe on Jan. 13, 2018, in a 76-74 overtime win at No. 15 West Virginia.
- Give TCU four wins over teams that have spent multiple weeks in the top 10 of The Associated Press poll in 2024-25.
- Signify the second time TCU has notched five-or-more Big 12 road victories in 13 seasons of conference membership. TCU last did so in 2019-20, the year of its best finish in Big 12 play.
- Make TCU 6-2 opposite teams featured in the top 40 of the NCAA NET rankings.
- Send TCU to its 14th conference victory in its last 16 Big 12 outings.
- Wednesday's game is the symbolic intersection of TCU's past and future. Kansas State head coach Jeff Mittie is the winningest coach in TCU women's basketball history, having guided the Horned Frogs to all nine of their NCAA Tournament berths and accumulated 303-176 (.633) overall record over his 15-year stay in Fort Worth. Mark Campbell won more games than any first-year TCU head coach in 2023-24 and boasts the best career winning percentage (.750) of anyone who has helmed the program. Campbell is on track to join Mittie as one of two coaches to lead the Horned Frogs to an NCAA Tournament berth.
- TCU associate head coach Xavier Lopez got his start in the industry in Manhattan. He served as a graduate assistant on Deb Patterson's staff from 2013-14 before receiving an opportunity to join Oregon's coaching staff the following season, where he and Campbell first crossed paths.
- TCU outscored Kansas State 46-34 in the second half in its 75-62 victory over the Wildcats in 2023.
- The Horned Frogs erased a 12-point second half deficit in their most recent win in Manhattan, a 54-52 victory on Feb. 19, 2020.
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