Monday, March 31
Birmingham, Ala.
6 PM
TCU
34-4,16-2Big 12
47
vs
58
Texas
35-3,15-1SEC
1
2
3
4
F
TCU
9
12
12
14
47
Texas
13
10
19
16
58
Storybook Season Comes to an End in Elite Eight
3/31/2025 10:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball
TCU falls to Texas 58-47 in NCAA Birmingham Regional final
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The greatest basketball season by every measure that TCU has seen reached its final stop in the Elite Eight.
The No. 2 seed Horned Frogs fell 58-47 to top-seeded Texas on Monday in the NCAA Birmingham Regional final at Legacy Arena.
TCU (34-4, 16-2 Big 12) came one game short of reaching the Final Four after commencing the 2024-25 campaign unranked. The Horned Frogs set a school record for total wins and became the first basketball team in university history to reach the Elite Eight.
Texas harassed TCU into a season-high 21 turnovers and held the Horned Frogs to just 12 field goals. The Frogs rallied to get within a point of the SEC co-champion Longhorns (35-3) at 32-31 with just over four minutes remaining in the third. Texas closed the frame on a 10-2 run and stretched the lead to 14 at the 5:42 mark of the fourth.
Hailey Van Lith scored a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds in her 172nd and final college basketball game. Van Lith netted eight points in the second quarter, helping TCU cut a 23-14 Longhorns lead down to a single basket entering the half.
Van Lith and Sedona Prince were named to the NCAA Birmingham Regional all-tournament team.
Prince finished with nine rebounds and a season-low four points. The 6-7 center fouled out with more than six minutes remaining.
TCU briefly tied the game at 29 with 5:07 left in the third but was held to just four field goals the rest of the way.
The Horned Frogs used an 8-0 run sparked by four points from Deasia Merrill to crawl within six, 53-47.
Merrill scored TCU's final basket of the season, a layup with 2:42 remaining. She nabbed her 1,000th career point in the process, joining Van Lith, Prince and Madison Conner as one of four 1,000-point scorers on TCU's roster.
Madison Booker tallied 14 of her game-high 18 points in the second half to pace the Longhorns.
TCU converted 19-21 attempts at the foul line to stay within arm's reach of Texas. The Frogs limited Texas to its third-fewest points in a game all season and became one of only two teams alongside No. 1 seed South Carolina to hold the Longhorns below 60 points.
The Horned Frogs finished with a 38-34 advantage on the glass. Prince's nine rebounds were a game high. Agnes Emma-Nnopu matched Van Lith with eight rebounds, six of which came on the offensive glass. Emma-Nnopu's half-dozen offensive boards are the second-most by a guard 5-11-or-shorter in an NCAA Tournament game this season.
Six Horned Frogs concluded their college careers; Van Lith, Prince, Conner, Emma-Nnopu, Merrill and Una Jovanovic.
The No. 2 seed Horned Frogs fell 58-47 to top-seeded Texas on Monday in the NCAA Birmingham Regional final at Legacy Arena.
TCU (34-4, 16-2 Big 12) came one game short of reaching the Final Four after commencing the 2024-25 campaign unranked. The Horned Frogs set a school record for total wins and became the first basketball team in university history to reach the Elite Eight.
Texas harassed TCU into a season-high 21 turnovers and held the Horned Frogs to just 12 field goals. The Frogs rallied to get within a point of the SEC co-champion Longhorns (35-3) at 32-31 with just over four minutes remaining in the third. Texas closed the frame on a 10-2 run and stretched the lead to 14 at the 5:42 mark of the fourth.
Hailey Van Lith scored a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds in her 172nd and final college basketball game. Van Lith netted eight points in the second quarter, helping TCU cut a 23-14 Longhorns lead down to a single basket entering the half.
Van Lith and Sedona Prince were named to the NCAA Birmingham Regional all-tournament team.
Prince finished with nine rebounds and a season-low four points. The 6-7 center fouled out with more than six minutes remaining.
TCU briefly tied the game at 29 with 5:07 left in the third but was held to just four field goals the rest of the way.
The Horned Frogs used an 8-0 run sparked by four points from Deasia Merrill to crawl within six, 53-47.
Merrill scored TCU's final basket of the season, a layup with 2:42 remaining. She nabbed her 1,000th career point in the process, joining Van Lith, Prince and Madison Conner as one of four 1,000-point scorers on TCU's roster.
Madison Booker tallied 14 of her game-high 18 points in the second half to pace the Longhorns.
TCU converted 19-21 attempts at the foul line to stay within arm's reach of Texas. The Frogs limited Texas to its third-fewest points in a game all season and became one of only two teams alongside No. 1 seed South Carolina to hold the Longhorns below 60 points.
The Horned Frogs finished with a 38-34 advantage on the glass. Prince's nine rebounds were a game high. Agnes Emma-Nnopu matched Van Lith with eight rebounds, six of which came on the offensive glass. Emma-Nnopu's half-dozen offensive boards are the second-most by a guard 5-11-or-shorter in an NCAA Tournament game this season.
Six Horned Frogs concluded their college careers; Van Lith, Prince, Conner, Emma-Nnopu, Merrill and Una Jovanovic.
Team Stats
TCU
TX
FG%
.267
.393
3FG%
.200
.667
FT%
.905
.727
RB
38
34
TO
21
8
STL
1
9
Game Leaders
Pts
17
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
10
Pts
9
FGM
4
3FGM
1
FTM
0
Pts
5
FGM
1
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Pts
5
FGM
1
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
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