Feb. 22, 2007

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Game #26 • Sat., Feb. 24, 2007 • TCU (10-15, 2-11) vs. #14/13 Air Force (23-5, 10-4)
1 p.m. (CT) • Daniel-Meyer Coliseum • Fort Worth, Texas

Game Day Information
Television: MountainWest Sports Network (the mtn.) James Bates (play-by-play) and Blaine Fowler (analyst) will describe the action.
Satellite Coordinates: SBS 6, Transponder K 9 lower (digital)
Radio: ESPN FM 103.3 and KTCU 88.7 FM in Fort Worth/Dallas
Brian Estridge (play-by-play) and John Denton (analyst) will call the game on the TCU/ISP Sports Network. The game can also be heard online at www.GoFrogs.com.
Next on the Schedule: TCU closes out its home season against Wyoming on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. It is Senior Night for TCU, as the program will honor a trio of four-year lettermen - Blake Adams, Neil P. Dougherty and Femi Ibikunle - in a pregame ceremony.

A TCU Win Would...
• Give the Horned Frogs their third league victory of the season, surpassing last year's total.
• Snap the Frogs' 11-game losing streak and five-game home losing skid.
• Be the first win over a ranked foe since Feb. 17, 2004, when TCU defeated Louisville, 71-46.
• Be just the 12th victory over a nationally-ranked team in school history. This is the 100th time that the Horned Frogs are facing a top-25 team.

A Needed Rest and a Needed Home Game
• TCU enjoyed a mid-week break thanks to their second and final bye of the conference slate. The Frogs' other bye came in mid-January, following their third game of the MWC season.
• The Horned Frogs are playing their first home game since Feb. 10, a span of two weeks.

A Mountain of a League
• Last year, the Mountain West sent two teams to the NCAA Tournament, as regular-season and tournament champion San Diego State grabbed a No. 11 seed, while Air Force received an at-large bid at No. 13.
• This year, however, the league is projected to receive at least three bids. In the most recent Bracketology projections on ESPN.com, Joe Lunardi has Air Force as a No. 4 seed, BYU as a No. 6 and UNLV at No. 6.
• The current RPIs of the three projected NCAA teams are: No. 10 UNLV, No. 14 Air Force and No. 23 BYU.
• The conference is currently ranked eighth out of the 31 leagues in RPI.

The Horned Frogs Against the Falcons
• TCU is 1-4 all time against Air Force and has lost four straight games.
• The Frogs are 1-1 all time vs. the Falcons in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
• Air Force has held TCU under 50 points in three straight meetings, as TCU has scored just 44.3 points per game over that stretch.
• The lone close game in the series was an 81-78 victory by Air Force on Feb. 20, 1999 in Colorado Springs.
• The average margin of victory in the other four games is 26.0.

The Earlier Meeting Between TCU and Air Force
• Air Force limited TCU to just 15 first-half points and 39 total points in a 72-39 win on Jan. 23.
• The Falcons shot better than 60 percent from the field, while TCU was under 33 percent.
• No Frog reached double figures in the contest.

Former Falcon
• TCU assistant coach Jeff Luster is a native of Littleton, Colo., and his first Division I job was as the Director of Basketball Operations at Air Force during the 1999-2000 season.
• An original member of Dougherty's staff at TCU, Luster spent one year at the Academy.

Rank and File
• TCU is 11-88 (.111) all time against nationally-ranked teams and has lost seven straight and 16 of its last 17 meetings against top-25 teams.
• The Horned Frogs own a 6-19 (.240) all-time record against ranked teams at home.
• TCU's most recent home win over a ranked team came on Feb. 17, 2004, when the Horned Frogs drubbed No. 10 Louisville by a 71-46 final.
• On Jan. 23, Air Force was the first top-25 team TCU clashed with since a road tilt with Syracuse on Dec. 3, 2005, a span of 42 games.
• The Falcons are the first ranked team to visit Fort Worth since No. 24 Cincinnati on Feb. 26, 2005. The Bearcats won that game, 89-74.

Willing to Play the Best
• This is the 17th top-25 opponent that TCU has faced in Neil Dougherty's 149th game at the helm of the program (1 per every 8.8 games).
• TCU competed against just 19 ranked teams during the entire decade of the 1990s, a span of 303 games (1 per every 15.9 games).