TCU will play its final road game of the season against No. 10 Texas Tech on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Horned Frogs currently hold a 19-10 overall record and are 9-7 in Big 12 Conference play. The game will be broadcast on FS1.
The team has won six of its last seven games, marking its most Big 12 wins over a seven-game stretch. TCU has also outrebounded opponents in each of those games, with an average margin of +6.6 rebounds per contest. Away from Schollmaier Arena, TCU is 6-5 this season, including a 4-5 record in true road games.
Against top-10 ranked teams this year, TCU holds a 2-3 record with victories over then-No. 5 Iowa State and then-No. 10 Florida. In recent seasons, TCU has defeated a ranked Texas Tech squad four times within the past six years.
Six of TCU’s losses have been by six points or fewer, and four defeats came against teams currently ranked among the nation’s top five. The Horned Frogs have swept three Big 12 opponents for just the second time in program history and have secured nine conference wins for the fourth consecutive season—a program-best streak.
Sophomore David Punch leads the team with averages of 13.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game and ranks third in the Big 12 with 2.1 blocks per contest (24th nationally). “Punch is one of two players averaging at least 13.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.0 assist, 1.0 steal and 2.0 blocks,” according to team statistics.
Micah Robinson has contributed significantly since joining the starting lineup; he is averaging a team-high of 14 points over his last six starts while maintaining a season average of 10.6 points per game.
Xavier Edmonds stands seventh in conference play with an average of 8.3 rebounds per game and has posted nine double-doubles—tied for most in Big 12 action this season.
Liutauras Lelevicius is shooting a team-best from beyond the arc at over forty percent overall and nearly forty-seven percent during conference play.
Brock Harding ranks third in assists (5.9 per game) within the Big 12 and fifth in steals (1.75), making him one of only seven players in the league to average at least eight points, five assists, and one steal per contest.
Defensively, TCU ranks twenty-third nationally for efficiency according to KenPom metrics while forcing nearly fourteen turnovers per game—second-best mark in their conference—and ranking third both in turnover margin (+2.9) and steals (7.1).
Jamie Dixon is leading TCU through his tenth season as head coach; his career win total stands at five hundred twenty-three which places him twentieth among active coaches nationwide: “Dixon is one of just eleven active head coaches who have made at least fifteen appearances in the NCAA Tournament.”
Texas Tech enters Tuesday’s matchup with a record of twenty-two wins and seven losses overall (12-4 Big 12), tied for second place with Houston after winning three straight games—including an eighty-two to seventy-three victory over No.4 Iowa State last Saturday.
The Red Raiders are ninth nationally in offensive efficiency (126.6) and fifth nationally with eleven-and-a-half three-pointers made per game despite losing preseason player-of-the-year JT Toppin to injury earlier this year; Christian Anderson now leads Texas Tech with averages of nineteen point four points scored along with seven point seven assists—the latter ranking third nationwide.
Historically, Texas Tech leads the all-time series versus TCU eighty-eight wins to fifty-seven—including fifty-two wins out of sixty-nine matchups played at home—but TCU has taken five out of their last seven meetings overall.
In their previous outing on Saturday, TCU closed strong against Kansas State with a ten-to-three run that resulted in a seventy-seven to sixty-eight victory; Xavier Edmonds led all scorers for TCU with fifteen points alongside thirteen rebounds as they limited themselves to eight turnovers while forcing Kansas State into eighteen mistakes.
TCU will finish its regular season schedule at home against Cincinnati on Saturday; that matchup will be televised on TNT.
