FORT WORTH \u2013 TCU (13-9, 3-6) will host Kansas State (10-12, 1-9) on Saturday at 1 p.m. on TNT as well as TruTV and HBO Max.<\/p>\n
TCU will recognize the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Southwest Conference Championship at halftime. The game will also be a white out, as fans are encouraged to wear white, and a retro game to showcase 1986. The Horned Frogs will wear uniforms with the same design worn in 1986 with the words Texas Christian across the front.<\/p>\n
NOTES ABOUT THE OPPONENT SERIES HISTORY
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU is 9-5 at home this season.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Of TCU’s nine losses, six were by six points or less.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 According to ESPN’s Power Index, TCU has the easiest remaining schedule among Big 12 teams.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Sophomore David Punch<\/a> leads the team in points (14.3) and rebounds (7.2).
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Punch is the only player averaging at least 14 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.0 assist, 1.0 steal and 2.0 blocks.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Punch’s 2.2 blocks per game ranks second in the Big 12 and 19th nationally.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Punch ranks 11th in the Big 12 with 7.2 rebounds per game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Liutauras Lelevicius<\/a> is TCU’s top 3-point shooter at 40.8 percent. He is shooting 53.6 percent in Big 12 play.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Brock Harding<\/a> ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 21st nationally with 6.1 assists per game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Harding has had five or more assists in all but one (at CU) Big 12 game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Harding has had five or more assists in 16 games this season, which is tied for most in the Big 12 (Fulks, UCF)
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Harding ranks eighth in the Big 12 with 1.8 steals per game.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harding is one of three players in the Big 12 averaging at least 8.0 points, 6.0 assists and 1.0 steal.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Xavier Edmonds<\/a> has recorded four-straight double-doubles, the first TCU player since 2017 to do so.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Edmonds is averaging 18.0 points and 10.5 rebounds in the last four games.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Edmonds ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 54.2 percent shooting in conference games.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Tanner Toolson<\/a> is leading the Big 12 in free throw percentage in Big 12 play at 92.0 percent.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Toolson is 62 points away from 1,000 for his career.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks 29th nationally in KenPom’s defensive efficiency rating at 99.2
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks third in the Big 12 with 14.0 turnovers forced per game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks third in the Big 12 in turnover margin at +2.8.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU has had less than 10 turnovers in a game seven times this season.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 7.3 steals per game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 33rd nationally with 15.1 fastbreak points per game.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU ranks second in the Big 12 and 19th nationally with 5.0 blocks per game.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is Jamie Dixon<\/a>‘s 10th season with the Horned Frogs. His 517 career wins ranks 20th among active coaches.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Under Jamie Dixon<\/a> in Schollmaier Arena, TCU is 125-46 overall and 48-37 in Big 12 games.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dixon was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in August.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dixon is one of just 11 active head coaches who have made at least 15 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas State is 10-12 overall and 1-8 in the Big 12 and has lost its last three games, most recently to Iowa State on Saturday.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 The Wildcats are led by guard PJ Haggerty who ranks second in the Big 12 and fourth in the country with 23.0 points per game. The Crosby, Texas native began his career at TCU and played six games in the 2022-23 season.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 KSU makes an average of 10.1 3-pointers per game, which ranks second in the Big 12 and make 36.9 percent of them, which ranks fourth.<\/p>\n
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 Kansas State leads 21-14 overall and 8-5 in Fort Worth.\u00a0\u00a0
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 TCU has won five of the past seven meetings, including three straight.
\n– \u00a0\u00a0 The Frogs have won the past two in Fort Worth. Last season’s meeting was a 63-62 win on Jan. 4. In last season’s meeting, a Noah Reynolds<\/a> layup with 12.8 seconds remaining gave TCU a 63-62 win on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n