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2/7/2025 12:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
No. 9 TCU rematches Lady Raiders looking for 16th straight home win
FORT WORTH – No. 9 TCU returns home with a chance to tack another milestone onto its 2024-25 team honor roll on Saturday.
The Horned Frogs host Texas Tech with a chance to notch the longest single-season home winning streak at 16 games. TCU is 15-0 at Schollmaier Arena. Nearly a full calendar year has passed since the Frogs have suffered a defeat in the venue. TCU has won 18 straight home games dating back to Feb. 24.
TCU will play four of its next six games at home beginning with Saturday's bout vs. the Lady Raiders.
The Game
Teams: No. 9 TCU (21-3, 9-2 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (14-11, 3-9 Big 12)
Date: 4 p.m. CT on Saturday, Feb. 8
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+
88.7 KTCU FM
The Horned Frogs host Texas Tech with a chance to notch the longest single-season home winning streak at 16 games. TCU is 15-0 at Schollmaier Arena. Nearly a full calendar year has passed since the Frogs have suffered a defeat in the venue. TCU has won 18 straight home games dating back to Feb. 24.
TCU will play four of its next six games at home beginning with Saturday's bout vs. the Lady Raiders.
The Game
Teams: No. 9 TCU (21-3, 9-2 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (14-11, 3-9 Big 12)
Date: 4 p.m. CT on Saturday, Feb. 8
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 is averaging 84.3 points per game inside Schollmaier Arena. The Frogs have scored 80-plus in their last four conference games.
- The Horned Frogs are 31-4 at home over the last two seasons.
- Sedona Prince, Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner account for 70 percent of TCU's scoring output (279-395 points) at home in conference play. For the year, the trio is averaging 54.1 combined points per game in Funky Town.
- The Frogs have claimed three of their last four meetings with the Lady Raiders in Fort Worth.
- TCU held Texas Tech to season-lows in points, field goals (13), field goal percentage (.228), 3-point percentage (.118) and assists (four) in its 69-43 victory over the Lady Raiders on Jan. 11 in Lubbock.
- TCU ranks second in the country in 3-ppiners (238).
- TCU is one of three teams ranking in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-pointers per game (6th, 9.9) and 3-point percentage (8th, .377).
- The Horned Frogs have knocked down the fifth-most 3-pointers of any team in the country over the last two seasons (550) and are one of three teams the Power Conference level with at least 500 makes from distance in that span.
- 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 ninth most of any team in America.
- TCU along with Kansas State and UConn, is one of three teams ranking in the top 10 nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3rd, 1.67) assists (7th, 460) and assists per game (8th, 19.2).
- TCU has led at halftime in all 11 of its conference games and in 22 of 24 contests overall.
- Van Lith, Conner and Prince combined for 64 points in TCU's last home game, an 80-75 defeat of No. 25 Baylor. They have netted 60-plus together eight times this season.
- 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-five 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 TCU's 82-69 win at Iowa State on Sunday.
- Van Lith is averaging 19.3 points per game over her last eight starts.
- Van Lith's 140 assists are the seventh-most of any player in America.
- Van Lith is one of six D1 players with a 2-1 assist-to-turnover ratio and at least 130 assists to her name.
- Conner continues to lead the nation in 3-pointers (86) and ranks second in 3-pointers per game (3.6).
- Conner tops the national charts in games with at least four 3-pointers with 12.
- Conner is connecting at a 47 percent clip (64-136) from deep over TCU's last 14 games.
- Conner averages 4.4 three-pointers per game at home. She has drilled four-or-more 3-pointers in 19 of her 30 outings (63 percent) inside Schollmaier Arena.
- TCU is 13-0 this season and 23-2 overall when Conner drills at least four 3-pointers.
- Prince recorded her conference-leading 11th double-double vs. No. 12 Kansas State, finishing with 14 points and 11 rebounds. She is tied for 15th across the D1 ranks in double-doubles.
- TCU lost for only the third time when the 6-7 produces a double-double on Wednesday. The Horned Frogs are 21-3 with a Prince double-double on a game's final box score.
- Prince has scored 20-plus points in 11 of her 16 career Big 12 games and in seven of 11 this season.
- TCU is 17-2 when Prince scores at least 20 points.
- Prince continues to lead the nation in blocks (72) and is the only player in America averaging at least 18 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game.
- TCU is the only team in the Big 12 with three finalists for Naismith Starting 5 Awards in Van Lith (Lieberman Award), Conner (Drysdale Award) and Prince (Leslie Award).
- Aaliyah Roberson converted 3-4 three-point attempts on Wednesday. The 6-2 junior is shooting 55 percent from the field (24-44) over her last 14 games.
- Roberson leads all Big 12 posts and ranks fourth nationally at her position in effective field goal percentage (.671).
- Agnes Emma-Nnopu leads all Big 12 guards and ranks 21st nationally among players 5-11-or-shorter in offensive rebounds (51).
- Surpass the 15-0 record the 2008-09 TCU women's basketball team pitched inside Daniel eyer Coliseum for the longest home winning streak in program history.
- Tie for the second-most home wins in a season, matching the 2023-24 squad's 16 victories inside Schollmaier Arena.
- Extend TCU's home winning streak to 18 games, dating back to a 59-49 takedown of Houston on Feb. 24.
- Mark the third time TCU has notched a winning streak of at least three games vs. Texas Tech.
- Send the Horned Frogs to their fifth season sweep of Texas Tech and first since 2018-19.
- Make TCU 3-0 this season in games following a loss.
- Guarantee the Horned Frogs their third winning record in Big 12 play since joining the
- conference in 2012-13.
- Maintain TCU's current positioning for the No. 2 seed in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
- TCU has notched its two largest margins of victory against Texas Tech in its last pair of wins over the Lady Raiders.
- TCU set a program record for fewest points allowed in a Big 12 road game in January's 69-43 win in Lubbock. The Horned Frogs also finished with 10 blocks vs. the Lady Raiders, their second-most ever in a Big 12 game.
- Texas Tech scored four points in the fourth quarter of the programs' meeting last month, which were the fewest surrendered in any quarter by a TCU team in a Big 12 game.
- The Frogs have held Texas Tech to 26 percent shooting (31-119) from the field in the teams' last two encounters.
- Sedona Prince is averaging 24.5 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks per game at the expense of Texas Tech for her career.
- The Horned Frogs' 73-52 win against Texas Tech on Feb. 28, 2024, is the largest margin of victory by a Mark Campbell-led TCU team in a Big 12 home game.
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