Preview: Tennessee State – TCU Athletics

FORT WORTH – No. 17 TCU seems to carve out one other slice of historical past when it concludes its season-opening three-game homestand at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in opposition to Tennessee State.
 
The Horned Frogs will tie the report for the longest residence successful streak in TCU basketball historical past (27 video games) with a win over the Tigers. TCU girls’s basketball received 27 straight at residence throughout three seasons from 2008-10. The streak started on Jan. 17, 2008, and concluded on Dec. 22, 2010.
 
Wednesday’s bout is TCU’s ultimate tune-up earlier than its first check of the 2025-26 marketing campaign. The Horned Frogs subsequent task is a go to to Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday to face No. 10 NC State. 
 
The Game
Teams: #17 TCU (2-0) vs. Tennessee State (0-2)
Date: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
 
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN+

• Josh Sours, Play-by-Play
• Jada Curtis, Analyst

Radio
88.7 KTCU FM

• Chris Blake, Play-by-Play

Opening Tip

• TCU’s 26-game residence successful streak is the third-longest nationwide.
• TCU has received its final 24 residence nonconference video games
• TCU is undefeated at residence at 27-0 in nonleague affairs within the Mark Campbell period when together with postseason contests.
• The Frogs improved to 27-1 in nonconference play within the Campbell period with Sunday’s win.
• The Horned Frogs common margin of victory at residence underneath Campbell is 22.2 factors.
• TCU’s final eight residence wins have all been by at the least 15 factors.
• TCU and Tennessee State are squaring off for the primary time. 

Frog Focus

• TCU’s backcourt trio of Olivia Miles, Maddie Scherr and Donovyn Hunter have produced a mixed 1.82 assist-to-turnover ratio by way of two video games.
• Scherr and Hunter sport respective assist-to-turnover ratios of 4.0 and three.5. Together, they make TCU one in all solely three groups alongside No. 3 Texas and South Alabama with two gamers possessing assist-to-turnover ratios of three.5-or-better.
• The Horned Frogs produced the nation’s eighth-best help per sport common (24.5) throughout the opening week of the 2025-26 season.
• TCU dropped 25 dimes on Sunday vs. Sam Houston, marking the twenty eighth time the Frogs have recorded 20-plus assists since 2023. The Frogs’ 28 twenty-assist video games are the ninth-most of any staff in faculty basketball.
• The Horned Frogs prime the Big 12 and rank third nationally in blocks per sport with 9.5. TCU averaged the fourth-most blocks per sport (5.8) in faculty basketball in 2024-25.
• TCU leads all Big 12 groups and ranks fourth amongst all D1 packages in complete blocks (227) during the last three seasons.
• The Horned Frogs are the one staff rating within the top-10 nationwide in 3-point area objectives (2nd, 687), 3-point area objectives per sport (4th, 9.4) and 3-point proportion (fifth, .372) because the 2023-24 marketing campaign.
• TCU has drained 10-or-more threes in 5 of its final seven residence video games courting again to February. The Frogs have reached double figures in deep balls 36 occasions within the Campbell period. TCU shot 10-22 (46 %) from downtown vs. the Bearkats.
• TCU had two gamers rating 20-plus in Sunday’s win over Sam Houston in Miles (22 factors) and Hunter (20 factors). TCU is 17-0 underneath Campbell when two gamers tally 20 factors.
• TCU recorded its third-highest single-game area objective proportion (.583, 35-60) within the Campbell period on Sunday vs. Sam Houston.
• TCU has led at halftime in 36 of its final 40 video games.
• TCU is thrashing groups by a median of 39.9 factors at residence in nonconference play since 2024-25. Seven of their final 11 wins have been by at the least 40 factors.
• TCU is the oldest staff in faculty basketball. The Frogs’ common age is 21 years and one month. Six of TCU’s 14 gamers are 22.5 years or older. 
• The Horned Frogs are additionally the tallest staff nationwide. TCU’s common peak is 6’2 1/2″ (74.5 inches). The Frogs are the one staff with 4 gamers 6-7-or-taller. Eight TCU gamers are at the least 6-2.
• For the third consecutive 12 months, TCU is the one staff throughout the Power Conference ranks whose major beginning lineup is comprised solely of first or second-year transfers 

Individual Notables
Olivia Miles

• Miles tallied 22 factors and 9 assists in Sunday’s win over Sam Houston, marking the 14th time in her profession she has completed with at the least 20 factors and 5 assists. Among energetic gamers, solely Hannah Hidalgo (28) and Virginia’s Kymora Johnson (16) have extra “20-and-5” video games.
• Miles notched her twenty fifth profession 15-5-5 sport on Thursday in her TCU debut vs. North Carolina A&T. She leads all D1 guards within the class.
• Miles is the energetic D1 chief in profession assists per sport common (6.5) and triple doubles (six). She can be the lone D1 participant with at the least 25 profession double-doubles and 5 triple-doubles. 
• Miles’ 669 profession assists are the second-most of any participant nationwide.
• Miles has dished out five-or-more assists in 71 % (73-103) of her profession video games performed.
• After one week of play, Miles is the one participant within the Big 12 rating within the top-10 in assists per sport (third, 7.5) area objective proportion (4th, .684) and factors per sport (seventh, 19.0) throughout the league’s statistical rankings.
• Miles was tabbed to each nationwide participant of the 12 months award preseason watch record. She and Audi Crooks (Iowa State) have been the lone Big 12 gamers tabbed to each the Naismith and Wade Trophy watch lists.
• Miles was named Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year and to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
• Miles is contending to develop into the fourth switch level guard in 5 seasons to win a convention participant of the 12 months accolade underneath Campbell.

Donovyn Hunter

• Hunter set profession highs for factors (20) and 3-pointers in opposition to Sam Houston. She shot 7-11 from the ground and 5-8 from downtown.
• Hunter is averaging 15 factors per sport at residence over her final 4 begins in Schollmaier Arena.
• Hunter completed with a 4-1 assist-to-turnover ratio vs. North Carolina A&T, marking the 18th time she has completed so and sixth in a TCU uniform.
• Hunter’s affinity for Walsh Family Court is obvious in her taking pictures percentages. At residence, she is connecting at a 51.4 % clip from the sector (73-142) and 44 % behind the arc (30-68). 
• Hunter has elevated her scoring common to 9.3 factors per sport over her final 13 outings. Prior to completely to TCU’s beginning lineup on Feb. 19, Hunter was averaging 5.2 factors per evening
• Hunter’s eight 3-pointers throughout  TCU’s pair of season-opening wins have been her most ever in a two-game stretch and the 18th-most of any participant nationwide throughout week one of many 2025-26 season.

Clara Silva

• Silva’s area objective proportion (.769) is the Fifteenth-highest of any D1 participant.
• Silva paired 9 factors with a career-high 9 rebounds on Sunday. 
• She completed with 13 factors, eight rebounds and three blocks in TCU’s season-opening win, marking the sixth time she recorded three-or-more blocks in a sport. 
• Silva was one in all solely three first-year gamers in 2024-25 to complete with five-or-more blocks in at the least two video games.
• The 6-7 heart was named Best Defensive Player and was one in all 5 gamers tabbed to the All-Tournament staff on the FIBA U19 World Cup in July. Silva averaged a close to double-double of 23 factors, 9.7 rebounds and a pair of.9 blocks per sport.

Marta Suarez

• Suarez scored her 1,000th profession level within the third quarter of Sunday’s victory.
• Suarez is the one males’s or girls’s participant who has competed in 4 Power Conferences when together with the Pac-12. She performed in each the Pac-12 and ACC at Cal and spent two years within the SEC with Tennessee.
• The Spaniard scored in double figures for the forty ninth time in her profession in her TCU debut vs. North Carolina A&T, main all gamers with 19 factors. She has reached double digits in 35-40 video games since 2024-25.
• Suarez began each sport throughout two seasons at Cal from 2023-25, averaging 12.9 factors, 7.2 
• rebounds and a pair of.4 assists per sport as a senior final 12 months.

Maddie Scherr

• Scherr scored her first factors since March 3, 2024 in Sunday’s win. She completed with eight factors on the energy of a pair of 3-pointers
• Scherr has completed with three-plus steals on 23 events. She tallied 11 three-steal video games as a junior at Kentucky in 2022-23.
• Scherr ranks third amongst all energetic gamers in profession three-steal video games.
• Scherr is one in all solely three energetic gamers alongside Rori Harmon (Texas) and Charlisse Leger-Walker (UCLA) with at the least 350 profession assists and 170 profession steals. 
• The Kentucky native has tallied 10-or-more factors and five-plus assists in 20 profession video games.

Taylor Bigby

• Bigby earned he beginning nod in 24 of TCU’s first 26 video games in her first 12 months in Fort Worth in 2024-25.
• Bigby tallied 10 factors in 17 minutes off the bench in Thursday’s season-opener.
• TCU is 13-0 when Bigby scores in double figures.
• Bigby averaged a career-high 8.2 factors per sport throughout nonconference play final season.

Kennedy Basham

• The 6-7 heart ranks second within the Big 12 and fifth nationally in blocks per sport (4.0).
• Basham led all gamers with six blocks and got here one shy of matching her profession excessive in Thursday’s win in opposition to North Carolina A&T.
• Basham has despatched again four-or-more pictures eight occasions over the course of her profession. Seven of her four-block efforts have come during the last two seasons.

Veronica Sheffey

• Sheffey led San Diego State in assists in 26-of-31 video games and scored in double figures 21 occasions in 2024-25.

Clara Bielefeld

• Bielefeld turned the youngest participant to ever compete for the German Senior National Team in June at age-17. She competed on the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket Championship in June.
• Bielefeld snagged six rebounds in 11 minutes off the bench on Sunday.

Taliyah Parker

• Parker the No. 6 total recruit in Texas within the class of 2024, gave TCU 4 factors in six second-half minutes on Sunday. 

Series Notes: Tennessee State

• Not solely is Wednesday’s ballgame the first-ever assembly between TCU and Tennessee State, it signifies simply the second time the Horned Frogs have battled a staff from the Ohio Valley Conference. TCU’s first-and-only encounter with an OVC foe happened 37 years in the past, when the Frogs fell 89-56 to Murray State on Dec. 16, 1988 in a sport that happened in Tulsa, Okla. as part of the Midwest Roundball Tournament. 
• Additionally, the midweek matchup marks solely the second time a TCU basketball staff has confronted Tennessee State. The TCU males downed the Tigers 60-40 on Dec. 29, 2014 in Fort Worth.
• TCU final confronted a staff from the state of Tennessee on Nov. 7, 2022 in its 2022-23 season-opener vs. Lipscomb. The Frogs received the sport 69-62.
• TCU holds a 7-6 all-time report vs. groups from Tennessee. Eight of the Horned Frogs encounters with D1 establishments within the Volunteer State have come reverse Memphis or Tennessee. TCU is 4-0 vs. the Tigers and 0-4 vs. the Volunteers.
• Among groups from Tennessee, TCU holds victories over Lipscomb, Memphis, Middle Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
• Freshman heart Emily Hunter is a local of Nolensville, Tenn., which is a suburb about 25 miles south Nashville, the place Tennessee State’s campus is situated.

A Win over the Tigers Would…

• Extend TCU’s residence successful streak to 17 video games.
• Position the Horned Frogs to set a TCU basketball report for consecutive residence wins (28) with a victory over Tarleton State on Nov. 20.
• Mark TCU’s nineteenth consecutive win within the month of November.
• Augment TCU’s nonconference report within the Mark Campbell period to 28-1
• Give Campbell his 97th profession head teaching victory.
• Make TCU 40-4 at residence within the Campbell period.
• Improve the Horned Frogs’ report as a ranked staff to 87-39.
• Boost TCU’s report at residence when ranked to 52-8.
• Stake TCU to its twentieth straight residence win as a ranked staff.
• Count because the Horned Frogs 454th all-time residence win.
• Be the 710th victory in TCU girls’s basketball historical past.