Horned Frogs Roar Past Louisville and into Sweet 16

Sunday, March 23

Fort Worth, Texas

5 PM

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Horned Frogs Roar Past Louisville and into Sweet 16

3/23/2025 10:42:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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TCU sets all-time attendance record for women's sporting event in 85-70 win

FORT WORTH – TCU made history twofold on Sunday.

The No. 2 seed Horned Frogs roared past No. 7 Louisville, 85-70, and into the third round of the NCAA Tournament before 7,494 fans at Schollmaier Arena.

TCU (33-3, 16-2 Big 12) advanced to its first Sweet 16 in school history and did so before the largest home crowd to ever attend a TCU women's sporting event. The Frogs also set a TCU women's basketball student attendance record (969 fans) in their 21^st and final home victory in 2024-25.

With the win, TCU will rematch No. 3 Notre Dame on Saturday from Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala. TCU rallied from 14 points down to defeat the Fighting Irish 76-68 on Nov. 29 in the Cayman Islands Classic.

Agnes Emma-Nnopu tallied 16 of her team and season-high 23 points in the first half as TCU took a 47-26 lead into the locker room. The Horned Frogs shot 70 percent (19-27) from the floor and 9-13 behind the arc.

Emma-Nnopu and Donovyn Hunter single-handedly outscored the Cardinals (22-11, 13-5 ACC) over the game's opening 20 minutes. Hunter scored 11 of TCU's first 26 points and finished with a season-best 18.

TCU dismantled Louisville's half-court trap and Emma-Nnopu and Hunter were the beneficiaries in the early going. The duo buried 7-8 combined attempts from downtown, with Emma-Nnopu knocking down 4-5.

Hailey Van Lith assisted on seven of TCU's first half makes. Van Lith, who starred at Louisville from 2020-23, turned in a 16-point, 10-assist double-double vs. her former team in her final game at Schollmaier Arena.

TCU outscored the Cardinals 27-9 over the course of the second quarter.

The Horned Frogs maintained a double-digit lead for almost the entirety of the second half despite 41 points from Louisville's Jayda Curry.

Curry scored 15 points over the game's first seven minutes to stake the Cardinals to an early 17-13 edge. TCU bridged a 17-0 run between the first and second quarters and was never seriously threatened from there. Hunter's trio of 3-pointers, including back-to-back to begin the second quarter, accounted for nine of TCU's points.

Consecutive 3-pointers from Madison Conner (nine points) and Emma-Nnopu punctuated the first half.

Van Lith and Sedona Prince combined for 21 second half points.

Louisville twice trimmed TCU's advantage down to nine in the fourth. Prince countered with layups on the Frogs' ensuing offensive possession both times.

Van Lith set up Hunter for a transition three from the right baseline with 1:16 to go to deliver the dagger.

Prince gave TCU four double-digit scorers, tallying 19 points and three blocks.

TCU finished the game 63 percent (29-46) from the field, the second-highest field goal percentage allowed by Louisville over the last 18 years.

The Horned Frogs' starting five accounted for the entirety of their points scored.

Team Notes

TCU's 33 wins are tied for the sixth-most in a season by a Big 12 team.
The Frogs increased fan attendance from the previous season by exactly 28,666 spectators. Exactly 72,444 fans (66,644) visited Schollmaier Arena in 2024-25 compared to 44,806 in 2023-24, good for a 69 percent increase.
TCU will carry a 24-game home winning streak into the 2025-26 season.
The Frogs are now 37-4 inside Schollmaier Arena in the Mark Campbell era.
TCU has trailed for just 72 seconds in the second half over its last 12 games dating back to Feb. 5.
The Frogs' 70.4 percent first half field goal percentage was its highest in a half all season.
TCU shot 78.6 percent (11-14) from the field in the second frame, good for its highest field goal percentage in a quarter all season.
TCU set program NCAA Tournament records for total points, most points scored in a half, field goal percentage, 3-pointers (11) and assists (20).
The Frogs' field goal percentage was the fourth-highest clip ever recorded by a Big 12 team in an NCAA Tournament game.
TCU has had four players score in double figures now in four straight games and 15 times this season. The Frogs have yet to lose when four Frogs finish with 10-plus.
TCU eclipsed the 80-point threshold for the 18^th time this season.
TCU is now tied for fifth nationally in games with at least 20 assists (16).
The Frogs reached double figures in 3-pointes for the 18^th time this season, tied for the second-most of any team in the country.
TCU increased its season 3-pointers tally to 345, putting the Frogs 13 threes shy of breaking Iowa State's 2021-22 Big 12 single season record.
Louisville became the 29^th team TCU has prevented from meeting or exceeding its season scoring average.
TCU held Louisville to its third-lowest field goal percentage (.338) in a game this season.
TCU has now led at halftime in 26 straight games and an NCAA-leading 34-of-36 this season.
TCU won its 12^th game vs. an NCAA Tournament team.
TCU improved to 5-2 all-time vs. the Cardinals.
The Horned Frogs are now 3-0 vs. the ACC and own victories over three of the top five teams in the league's final standings.

Individual Notes

Van Lith recorded the seventh double-double of her career and her second with 10 assists.
Van Lith's 10 assists were the most ever in an NCAA Tournament game by a TCU player.
Van Lith finished with at least 15 points and five assists for the 16^th game this season, the most of any player still competing in the postseason.
Van Lith is two assists away of reaching 200 for the season.
Van Lith (637 points) needs 21 points to break TCU's single-season record.
Van Lith has reached the Sweet 16 in all five of her collegiate seasons.
Emma-Nnopu's 23 points were her second-most in a game.
Emma-Nnopu has scored in double figures in back-to-back games for the first time all season.
Emma-Nnopu tied Conner for the second-most points scored by a Frog in an NCAA Tournament affair.
Emma-Nnopu finished 8-12 from the field.
Hunter's 18 points were her second-most in a game.
Hunter finished 6-6 from the field.
Prince eclipsed 600 points for the season. In doing so, she made TCU one of just two teams alongside Vanderbilt with two 600-point scorers.
Prince has scored in double figures in four of her five career NCAA Tournament games.
Conner (125 threes) is six 3-pointers shy of matching the Big 12 single-season record.
Combined with Van Lith, half of TCU's roster has now advanced to multiple Sweet 16's. Emma-Nnopu earned her third Sweet 16 cap. Conner, Hunter, Prince, Taylor Bigby and Maddie Scherr have now all reached the third round of the NCAA Tournament twice.
Mark Campbell has now reached the Sweet 16 five times in his coaching career.