Feb. 27, 2007
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Game Day Information
Television: MountainWest Sports Network (the mtn.)
Rich Cellini (play-by-play) and Dave Bollwinkel (analyst) will describe the action.
Satellite Coordinates: SBS 6, Transponder K 16 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 the 2006-07 regular season Saturday when the Horned Frogs visit San Diego State. The game will tip off at 5 p.m. (CT)/3 p.m. (PT). Following that, TCU will compete in the Mountain West Conference Tournament, which begins Tuesday, March 6.
A TCU Win Would...
• Give the Horned Frogs their second two-game winning streak in Mountain West Conference play and double their MWC win total from last year.
• Be the Frogs' 10th home victory of the season. It would be the 10th time in the past 13 years that TCU has accomplished that feat.
• Mark the eighth straight season that TCU has won its Senior Night game (home finale).
• Give TCU seniors Blake Adams, Neil P. Dougherty and Femi Ibikunle their 51st win during their Horned Frog careers.
The Horned Frogs Against the Cowboys
• Wyoming leads the all-time series 5 games to 3 and has won three straight meetings.
• Five of the eight contests have been decided by five points or less.
• TCU is 2-1 in Fort Worth vs. the Cowboys all time, with the lone loss coming last year by a 68-64 final.
Former Frog at the Helm
• Wyoming head coach Steve McClain served as an assistant coach at TCU for four seasons (1994-95 through 1997-98) under Billy Tubbs.
• The 1997-98 team he helped mentor is the last Horned Frog club to advance to the NCAA Tournament.
• He is the second former Frog assistant to return to TCU as a head coach at another school this season, joining Rob Flaska (Centenary).
May the Force Be With Us
• With Saturday's upset win over No. 14/13 Air Force, TCU earned just the school's 12th victory over a nationally-ranked team in 100 attempts.
• It was the second straight time that a foe ranked in the top 15 left Daniel-Meyer Coliseum with a loss. Previously, TCU defeated 10th-ranked Louisville, 71-46, on Feb. 17, 2004.
Grounding the Falcons
• TCU shot a season-best 55.6 percent from the floor, including 75.0 percent in the second half.
• The Horned Frogs led for 34 of the 40 minutes, and did not trail over the final 16 minutes.
• The TCU bench outscored the Air Force bench 32-9, while the Horned Frogs enjoyed a 32-18 advantage in the paint.
• Ryan Wall scored a game-high 19 points, his second-highest output ever, on 4-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc.
Rank and File
• TCU is now 12-88 (.120) all time against nationally-ranked teams, which includes a 7-19 (.269) mark at home.
• Prior to Saturday, TCU had lost seven straight and 16 of its previous 17 meetings against top-25 teams.
Willing to Play the Best
• Air Force was the 17th top-25 opponent that TCU has faced in Neil Dougherty's 149 games leading 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).
Beating the Best
• Neil Dougherty has two top-15 victories in his five seasons as head coach, which already ties him for the second-most in school history.
• The only coach in TCU history with more top-15 wins than Dougherty is Jim Killingsworth, who took down four top-15s in eight years.
• Dougherty is tied with Buster Brannon, who coached the Horned Frogs for 20 seasons, for second place.
• With two, he is tied for third in most top-25 wins by a TCU head coach, behind only Jim Killingsworth (4) and Billy Tubbs (3).
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 UNLV as a No. 4 seed, Air Force as a No. 5 and BYU as a No. 7. In addition, San Diego State is listed on his "Last Four Out" list.
• The current RPIs of the three projected NCAA teams are: No. 12 UNLV, No. 19 Air Force and No. 23 BYU.
• The conference is currently ranked eighth out of the 31 leagues in RPI.
