Dec. 6, 2005
TCU at Tulane Game Notes
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FT. WORTH, Texas -- For the second time in less than a week, the Horned Frogs will be featured on national television (CSTV) when they head to College Station, Texas. TCU men's basketball will meet up with Tulane University, which relocated to Texas A&M due to the aftermatch of Hurricane Katrina in September, on Wednesday with tip-off set for 7 p.m. CST.
It will be an all-time 14th meeting between the two teams with it being only the second time in the series a contest was played at another site other than their respective homecourts.
GAME 7: TCU (1-5) at Tulane (1-4)
TIPOFF: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005 at 7 p.m. (CT)
SITE: Reed Arena (12,500) in College Station, Texas
TELEVISION: CSTV
Tom Hart and Pete Gillen will serve as the play-by-play and analyst for the game.
RADIO: ESPN 103.3 in FortWorth/Dallas and KTCU 88.7 FM
Brian Estridge (play-by-play) and John Denton (color analyst) will call the game on the TCU/ESPN Regional Sports Network.
ONLINE: Live Radio Broadcast and Gametracker on www.GoFrogs.com
ABOUT THE GAME
• TCU and Tulane will battle on the hardwood for the 14th time with the Horned Frogs owning a 7-6 edge over the Green Wave.
• Having played Tulane in home-and-home series the past four years while a member of Conference USA, TCU will meet the Green Wave only once in 2004-05.
• Wednesday's matchup between the two teams will be the third televised game, but showcased nationally for the second time within a week for the Horned Frogs.
• Texas A&M University has been a second home to six Tulane athletic programs, including the men's basketball team, since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in September.
• It will be the first time ever TCU steps foot in College Station to play a team other Texas A&M. The last time the Frogs came to College Station was back in 1995-96, the last year of the Southwest Conference. TCU is 31-43 all-time in Aggieland.
• TCU is the third of four home games for Tulane being played at A&M's Reed Arena this year. The Green Wave will return to New Orleans prior to Christmas after they wrap up final home game against St. Edwards in College Station on Dec. 19.
• The Frogs are 5-3 against their former conference foe the Green Wave in the last four seasons. It will also be the second game in the series played at a site other than Fort Worth or New Orleans. The two teams met on the court in Albuquerque, N.M., where Tulane slipped past TCU 82-80 on Dec. 29, 1965.
• A former member of Conference USA, the Horned Frogs trail 222-277 against current members of the league. The last meeting with a C-USA team occurred Mar. 5, 2005, when TCU dropped a 66-64 decision to Southern Miss in Hattiesburg.
• Green Wave head coach Dave Dickerson is in his first season at the helm of the Tulane program. He is one of three new head coaches in Conference USA this year, which also includes Ricky Stokes at East Carolina and Tulsa's Doug Wojcik.
• TCU's Neil Dougherty and Dave Dickerson of Tulane will face each other for the third time. Most recently, the two met in last year's NIT quarterfinals where the Horned Frogs fell at Maryland. Prior to that meeting, the two were assistant coaches with Dougherty at Kansas for eight years (1995-2002) and Dickerson for nine (19996-2005)at Maryland.
• During Dougherty and Dickerson's respective tenures as assistants, Kansas and Maryland played only twice with the Terrapins winning both contests - an 86-83 win on Dec. 7, 1997 in Washington, D.C., and a 97-88 victory in the 2002 NCAA Final Four in Atlanta, Ga., to advance to the national title game.
GAME 6 RECAP: at No. 24 Syracuse 80, TCU 64
• Nile Murry led all players in scoring for the fourth time this season as he posted 25 points in the hard-fought loss to Syracuse. He went 5-of-8 (.625) from long range and shot 75 percent (6-of-8) from the foul line. Murry also grabbed five rebounds, dished out a pair of assists and made three steals.
• Judson Stubbs also scored in double figures for the fifth time in 2005-06. The senior collected 12 points and came within two shy of a double-double as he snatched eight boards for the second-best mark on the night.
• For the first time this season, TCU recorded a 70.6 shooting percentage from the charity stripe. The Horned Frogs nailed 12 3-pointers on 17 attempts with 10 of those shots coming in the second half.
• Blake Adams finished one point shy of a double-figure performance in 22 minutes of action as the junior guard tallied nine.
• Blake Adams finished one point shy of a double-figure performance in 22 minutes of action as the junior guard tallied nine.
• Freshman walk-on Rob Staky made his first appearance for TCU. The 6-foot-2 guard, who hails from Englewood, Colo., joined the Horned Frog lineup earlier on this season but had to wait for clearance from the NCAA.
