Tcu Women's Basketball Keeps Rolling At Home

TCU women’s hoops utilized a third-quarter scoring burst to unafraid different Big 12 Conference triumph astatine location and return down Arizona, 78-62. 

The No.10-ranked Horned Frogs (18-1 overall, 6-1 Big 12) person won 37 consecutive games astatine home, tied pinch No. 4 Texas for nan champion agelong successful Division I. Arizona (10-7, 1-5) dropped its 2nd consecutive crippled arsenic starring scorer defender Mickayla Perdue remains retired pinch a wrist injury. 

“The 2nd half, we woke up, played pinch a awesome power and effort,” TCU caput coach Mark Campbell said. “We sewage into a bully rhythm. I deliberation we ended up scoring 50 successful nan 2nd half. Defensively, we were great.”

TCU Guard Olivia Miles scored a team-high 16 points and dished retired 7 assists while halfway Clara Silva posted a double-double consisting of 15 points and 11 rebounds. Guard Donovyn Hunter and guardant Marta Suarez cracked double-digits pinch 12 and 10 points, respectively. 

Perhaps nan astir captious scoring outputs came from guards Veronica Sheffey and Taylor Bigby. Sheffey scored a season-high 11 points, and Bigby had 9 points disconnected nan bench.

“I deliberation Taylor and Roni were a immense logic why we scored 50 successful nan 2nd half and played pinch conscionable a tremendous spirit,” Campbell said. “And we request that.”

Sheffey arrived astatine TCU this twelvemonth aft spending past play arsenic nan starting constituent defender and starring scorer astatine San Diego State. She has embraced a very different domiciled this play while remaining fresh for her infinitesimal successful nan spotlight whenever it comes. 

“I conscionable don't deliberation nan mindset ever changes,” Sheffey said. “It has to enactment nan aforesaid sloppy of what position you're in. So conscionable trying to support that mentality arsenic nan play goes connected and conscionable staying fresh for nan moment, knowing that it will travel eventually. "

Both Sheffey and Bigby played complete 20 minutes arsenic TCU adjusted to a lineup without starting defender Maddie Scherr. Scherr near nan crippled early successful nan 2nd 4th pinch an injury. Scherr, who missed past play pinch a backmost injury, deed nan level aft getting bumped by a screen, held her backmost while sitting connected nan level and was yet carried disconnected to nan locker room. Scherr watched nan game’s last minutes from nan bench. 

Arizona defender Sumayah Sugapong posted a game-high 17 points, defender Noel Cornfield had 11 points, and guardant Achol Magot added 12 points successful a season-high 16 minutes. The Wildcats became conscionable nan 3rd squad this play to sprout 40% aliases amended against TCU (26-of-61, 42.6%).  

“TCU is simply a awesome team, good coached,” Arizona first-year caput coach Becky Burke said. “We respected them astatine nan highest level coming into this game. But we didn't travel successful present for illustration we were readying connected losing. And I was really proud of our team's effort for that and our conflict and nan business that we're successful this year.” 

TCU trailed 30-28 astatine halftime but, arsenic they person done galore times this season, pulled distant from its force successful nan 3rd quarter. The Horned Frogs outscored nan Wildcats 27-18 and changeable 57% (8-of-14) from nan field. An 11-2 scoring tally midway done nan 3rd quarter, highlighted by 5 points from Miles, including a step-back 3-pointer, helped TCU get rolling. 

The 4th fourth became an hold of nan 3rd 4th arsenic nan Horned Frogs ballooned nan lead to 19 points and went connected aggregate agelong scoring runs. 

“Today we weren't very proud of our capacity successful nan first half, truthful we request to do a amended occupation of conscionable having a amended commencement each game, because that's what sets nan reside for nan full game,” Sheffey said. “But, successful nan 3rd quarter, that's different chance to get it right. So, erstwhile we regroup successful nan locker room, travel backmost retired and make judge we do it right.”

TCU Head Coach Mark Campbell & Guard Veronica Sheffey

TCU started slow offensively successful nan first half and trailed by arsenic galore arsenic 7 points successful nan 2nd 4th aft Arizona went connected an 11-2 scoring run. Sheffey past nailed TCU’s only 3-pointer of nan 4th astatine nan 1:13 mark, and Bigby added a layup to trim Arizona’s lead to 30-28 astatine halftime. 

The Horned Frogs did brushwood foul problem during nan 3rd quarter, arsenic Silva and Miles picked up their 3rd fouls and halfway Kennedy Basham fouled retired pinch 1:10 near successful nan quarter. Arizona matched TCU’s physicality and had 2 players foul out, Cornfield and guardant Bless Adebanojo. Cornfield and Sugapong besides picked up method fouls during nan last frame. 

“The physicality, I loved really we responded,” Campbell said. “We sewage to nan [free throw] statement 21 times. Up astatine West Virginia, I deliberation we sewage to nan statement six times. And truthful we're learning, we're growing.”

One holdover from nan West Virginia crippled connected Wednesday that Campbell hopes to spot continued betterment connected is turnovers. The Horned Frogs racked up 11 turnovers successful nan first half against nan Wildcats and vanished pinch 17. It’s nan 4th consecutive crippled TCU has had astatine slightest 16 giveaways. 

The Horned Frogs committed a season-high 24 turnovers astatine West Virginia, but snuck retired pinch a 51-50 win. 

“Right now immoderate things are getting exposed,” Campbell said. “That's not a bad thing. It's only a bad point if we don't study from it and get better.”

Arizona Head Coach Becky Burke & Guard Sumayah Sugapong

Up Next

TCU will play its 3rd crippled successful six days, walking to Newark, New Jersey, to look No. 14 Ohio State successful nan Coretta Scott King Classic. The Classic takes spot connected Martin Luther King Jr. Day and is successful its 2nd year. It honors nan values and bequest of Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife, and nan King family, while besides celebrating leadership, equality, education, and empowerment done sport. 

“It's an unthinkable grant that we get to beryllium a portion of it,” Campbell said. “I deliberation it's Michigan and Vanderbilt sewage to beryllium a portion of it and america and Ohio State. So this agelong is brutal, but astatine nan extremity of nan day, winning's hard. Trying to triumph a convention title is hard. And it's what we each signed up for. You want to play astatine nan highest level and compete against nan best, and we get a chance to do that.”

TCU and Ohio State will extremity disconnected astatine 11 a.m. and nan crippled will beryllium televised connected FOX. 

Big 12 Champions Honored

Before nan Arizona game, TCU received its Big 12 Championship rings for nan 2024-25 season. The Horned Frogs won some nan regular play and tourney titles earlier making an Elite Eight tally successful nan NCAA Tournament - each these milestones were firsts successful programme history. 

Current players and nan coaching unit were honored individually. 

Players successful attendance were Donovyn Hunter, Taylor Bigby, Aaliyah Roberson, Natalie Mazurek, Maddie Scherr, Emily Hunter, and erstwhile subordinate Ella Hamlin. 

The coaching unit members honored included caput coach Mark Campbell, subordinate caput coach Xavier Lopez, adjunct coaches Minyon Moore, Nia Jackson, Nolan Wilson, adjunct coach/assistant AD for operations Jessie Craig, and head of recruiting operations and student-athlete improvement Adeola Akomolafe. 

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