TCU-San Diego State Game Notes

RV/RV TCU vs San Diego State
Date: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007
Time: 2:00 p.m. CT
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Arena: Daniel-Meyer Coliseum (7,200)
TV: None
Radio: 88.7 KTCU, gofrogs.com
Live Stats: gofrogs.com
Video Streaming: gofrogs.com

Jan. 26, 2006

FORT WORTH, Texas - Coming off a 67-43 win over New Mexico on Wednesday, the TCU women,s basketball team will look to extend its school-record home winning streak of 16 games on Sunday when San Diego State visits Daniel Meyer Coliseum for a 2 p.m. tip.

RV/RV TCU (14-6, 4-2 Mountain West Conference) is 11-0 at home this season, where they are defeating opponents by an average of 19.45 points per game. In three conference home games, the Lady Frogs have won by an average margin of 33.0 points.

San Diego State (9-8, 2-4 MWC) enters Sunday,s game following a 54-49 loss to BYU at home on Thursday. The Aztecs have conference wins over Air Force (60-51) and Colorado State (75-66). San Diego State enters the game with a 1-5 record on the road with its only victory coming at Southern Utah (55-52) on Nov. 24.

Sunday,s game can be heard on 88.7 KTCU and www.gofrogs.com with Jeff Williams (play-by-play) and Marcy Girton (analyst) on the call. The game will also be video streamed for free on TCU All-Access at www.gofrogs.com. Live stats from the game are also available on www.gofrogs.com.

After losing two straight road matches at Utah (72-61) and Wyoming (66-51), TCU ended its skid with a convincing 67-43 win over New Mexico on Wednesday and is now bidding to win its fourth straight meeting with the Aztecs.

TCU leads the all-time series 4-2 over the Aztecs and hold a 3-0 advantage in Fort Worth. San Diego State hasn,t defeated the Lady Frogs since a 63-51 win in San Diego on Jan. 1, 2000.

SCOUTING SAN DIEGO STATE
San Diego State enters Sunday,s game following a 54-49 loss to BYU on Thursday. The Aztecs own a 9-8 record and 2-4 mark in the Mountain West Conference. The Aztecs have rotated wins and losses over their last five games and hope to continue the trend vs. TCU. TCU and SDSU have each faced one common non-conference foe - George Washington. TCU fell 82-77 to GW in the BTI Classic (Nov. 18), while SDSU lost 76-42 on Dec. 30. Prior to losing to GW, the Aztecs had strung together six straight wins.

San Diego State is led by junior Jennifer Layton, who leads the team with 10.4 points per game and is second on the team in rebounding at 5.9. Layton is also tied for the team lead with 23 blocks. Senior center Desiree Johnson leads the team in rebounding with a 6.0 average.

San Diego State is coached by Beth Burns, who is in the second year of her second stint as head coach at San Diego State. She is in her 10th season overall at SDSU after leading the Aztecs for eight seasons from 1989-1997. She has an overall head coaching record of 244-180 in 15 years and she owns a 163-115 mark in 10 seasons at SDSU.

The Aztecs were picked to finish seventh in the Mountain West Conference, just ahead of Air Force and Colorado State. SDSU is currently tied for sixth in the conference with New Mexico.

A CAREER NIGHT
TCU,s 67-43 win over New Mexico was a special night for junior guard Adrianne Ross, who recorded her first career double-double with 16 points and a career-best 11 rebounds in addition to becoming just the ninth player in TCU history to record 1,000 career points. A native of Hobbs, N.M., Ross entered the game with New Mexico just five points shy of 1,000. Hobbs officially joined the 1,000 point club with a jumper in the paint with 7:50 to go in the first. The double-double was the first by a Lady Frog since Lorie Butler-Rayford had 11 points and 10 boards against SMU on Dec. 1. Ross also matched a career high with eight assists. Ross is the second TCU player to reach 1,000 points this season after Ashley Davis became the eighth player in school history to reach 1,000 points against Georgia on Dec. 17.

TCU'S ALL-TIME LEADING SCORERS

Rank    No.        Player              Years
1.      1,892   Sandora Irvin           2001-05
2.      1,448   Janice Dzuik            1986-90
3.      1,300   Jill Sutton             1997-01
4.      1,178   Tricia (Payne) Porter   1998-03
5.      1,166   Amy (Sutton) Porter     1997-01
6.      1,156   Ebony Shaw              2000-04
7.      1,152   Ashley Davis            2003-current
8.      1,151   Leah Garcia             1994-98
9.      1,011   Adrianne Ross           2003-current
10.     998     Tiffany Evans           2000-04

A STREAK UNMATCHED
Daniel-Meyer Coliseum is supposed to be a friendly place to play for the Lady Frogs, but it has been especially friendly over the last two seasons. TCU currently has a 16-game home winning streak - the longest in school history - and is off to the best home start in program history with 11 straight wins. TCU hasn,t lost at home since a 67-64 setback to BYU on Jan. 25, 2006. The longest previous streak was 12 straight during the 2000-01 season. TCU,s 16-game winning streak is the 10th-longest in NCAA Division I.

Rk.             School         Next Game Date  Streak
1               LSU             1/28/2007       41
2               Bowling Green   2/04/2007       26
3               Ohio St.        2/04/2007       25
4               Charlotte       2/08/2007       21
5               James Madison   1/28/2007       21
                Maryland        1/28/2007       20
7               Louisville      2/03/2007       18
                Marist          1/26/2007       18
                North Carolina  2/08/2007       18
10              TCU             1/28/2007       16

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD(S)
Junior forward Lorie Butler-Rayford permanently etched her name into the record book against New Mexico by tying the third-highest rebound total in TCU history with 19. Butler-Rayford topped her previous career high of 14 against Arizona by grabbing seven offensive and 12 defensive rebounds. Butler-Rayford was just three rebounds shy of tying the school record of 22 set by Michelle Bailey in 1983.

THE SERIES
TCU leads the all-time series 4-2 and has won the last three meetings between the two programs. TCU is 3-0 all-time in Fort Worth against the Aztecs.

Date            Site           W/L      Score
Jan. 25, 1998   Fort Worth      W       83-68
Feb. 14, 1998   San Diego       L       66-72
Jan. 1, 2000    San Diego       L       51-63
Dec. 2, 2001    Fort Worth      W       75-49
Jan. 18, 2006   San Diego       W       77-60
Feb. 18, 2006   Fort Worth      W       80-49

GOING STREAKING
Over the course of the last two seasons, Ashley Davis, has pieced together a streak of 39 straight games with at least one three-pointer. The streak is currently the second longest in the nation and dates back to a 76-66 win over No. 18/18 New Mexico on Jan. 11, 2006. The last game Davis did not make a three-pointer was on Jan. 7, 2006 at Wyoming, where she finished 0-for-4 from beyond the arc.

The NCAA record for most consecutive games with a three-pointer is 60 by Kim MacMillan of Long Island.

Rk.      Name                                  Streak
1       Jackie Closser, Butler                  47
2       Ashley Davis, TCU                       39
3       Rashida Suber, Coppin State             36
4       Lori Bjork, Illinois                    26
5       Ivory Latta, North Carolina             24
6       Yolanda Lavender, Wake Forest           21
7       T.J. Jordan, Old Dominion               21
8       Mel Thomas, Connecticut                 19
        Carrie Myers, Valparaiso                19
10      Debbie Burris, Southern Illinois        18

DEFENSIVE FORCE
TCU has limited four opponents to less than 50 points this season. Against New Mexico, TCU held the Lobos to their lowest point total of the season in a 67-43 win. UNM,s output was the second-lowest by a TCU foe this year (Colorado State-36).