TCU
Utah
Preview: at Utah
1/15/2026 5:08:00 PM | Men's Basketball
TCU will face Utah at 1 p.m. CT Saturday
SALT LAKE CITY – TCU (11-6, 1-3) will play on the road for the third time in four games when it faces Utah (8-9, 0-4) Saturday at 1 p.m. CT at Huntsman Center. The game will air on TNT.
NOTES
- TCU is 3-2 away from home this season with losses to No. 22 Kansas and No. 11 BYU.
- Xavier Edmonds, who played the past two years at Salt Lake CC, is averaging 10.9 points and 4.4 rebounds.
- Junior Tanner Toolson grew up in Provo and played at BYU in the 2022-23 season.
- Toolson scored 11 at Utah in the 2023-24 season while playing for Utah Valley.
- Sophomore David Punch leads the team in points (13.9) and rebounds (7.8).
- Punch is one of three players nationally averaging at least 13 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
- Punch's 2.4 blocks per game ranks second in the Big 12 and 15th nationally.
- Punch ranks 10th in the Big 12 with 7.8 rebounds per game.
- Punch's free throw percentage has improved from 52.9 percent last season to 64.0 percent this season.
- Senior Jayden Pierre is at 961 career points, 39 away from 1,000.
- Pierre is TCU's top 3-point threat shooting 42.3 percent from three. He has made a three in all but one game.
- Harding ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 23rd nationally with 6.2 assists per game.
- Harding ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 1.9 steals per game.
- Harding is one of two players in the Big 12 averaging at least 8 points, 6 assists and 1 steal.
- Harding had 12 points and four assists at Utah when his Iowa team lost 91-82 in the second round of the 2024 NIT.
- Sophomore Micah Robinson has come off the bench in every game and averages 10.1 points.
- Junior Liutauras Lelevicius is 24-of-24 from the free throw line, tied for the most in the nation without a miss.
- TCU ranks 22nd nationally in KenPom's defensive efficiency rating at 97.7.
- TCU ranks fourth in the Big 12 with 14.4 turnovers forced per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 46th nationally in turnover margin at +3.1.
- TCU had just nine turnovers at BYU on Wednesday, the sixth time this season the Frogs had less than 10.
- TCU ranks fifth in the Big 12 with 7.6 steals per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 34th nationally with 15.9 fastbreak points per game.
- TCU ranks second in the Big 12 and 13th nationally with 5.6 blocks per game.
- It is Jamie Dixon's 10th season with the Horned Frogs. His 515 career wins ranks 20th among active coaches.
- Dixon was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in August.
- Dixon is one of just 11 active head coaches who have made at least 15 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
- Utah is 8-9 overall and 0-4 in the Big 12. The Runnin' Utes have lost five-straight games following an 88-74 loss at No. 15 Texas Tech Wednesday.
- Utah is led in scoring by Terrence Brown, who ranks third in the Big 12 with 21.4 points per game. Don McHenry also ranks in the top 10 at No. 8 with 18.6 points per game.
- Keanu Davis ranks fourth in the Big 12 with 8.8 rebounds per game.
SERIES HISTORY
- Utah leads the all-time series 17-6.
- The Runnin' Utes lead the series 9-2 in games played in the Huntsman Center and have won the last four in the building. TCU's last win in the Huntsman Center was a 71-68 victory on Jan. 6, 2007.
- Utah won last year's meeting, 73-65, in Fort Worth. Micah Robinson scored 10 points.
- Prior to Utah joining the Big 12, the two teams met in consecutive seasons at designated neutral sites in their respective cities. TCU won the games held at Dickies Arena in 2021 and Delta Center in 2022.
LAST TIME OUT
- For the second-straight road game against a Top 25 team, TCU could not hold onto a second-half lead in a 76-70 loss at No. 11 BYU Wednesday at Marriott Center. The Frogs led by as many as nine points early in the second half. It was also a tie game, 63-63, with four-minutes remaining.
- Xavier Edmonds led the team in scoring with 19 points and rebounding with eight.
- TCU held BYU to 20.8 percent (5-24) from 3-point range. It was the lowest by a TCU opponent this season.
UP NEXT
- TCU will host Oklahoma State on Tuesday at 7 p.m. on ESPN+.
