Oct. 28, 2003
FORT WORTH, Texas
The TCU Lady Frog basketball team is listed among two more preseason polls, coming in at No. 20 in Basketball News and 22nd in Women's Basketball News Service. TCU has now been listed among the top-25 by five major authories on basketball, which in addition to the aforementioned publications, includes Lindy's College Basketball, Athlon Sports and WomensCollegeHoops.com. The No. 20 ranking by Basketball News is the highest of the five.
The excerpt from Basketball News on the Lady Frogs reads as follows:
"TCU is the only Conference USA school to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament three years in a row. Now the trick is for the Horned Frogs to leap-frog past that point. And they're pretty sure they have the tools to do it. Four starters return from coach Jeff Mittie's 20-14 team that lost to Connecticut in the second round. Junior forward Sandora Irvin is back after scoring 12.0 points per game last year. She also pulled down a Conference USA-best 9.7 rebounds per game. Her 3.9 blocks per game also ranked as tops in the league. In fact, TCU averaged a league-best 6.6 blocked shots. Also back are seniors Ebony Shaw and Tiffany Evans. Both averaged around 9 points and both paced the team with 33 three-pointers made apiece."
TCU is set to open the 2003-04 campaign at home Nov. 21 when Texas State travels to Cowtown for a 7 p.m. match-up at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. Two exhibitions Nov. 7 and 17 at 7 p.m. precede the season opener.
BASKETBALL NEWS PRESEASON POLL
1. Connecticut
2. Duke
3. Texas
4. LSU
5. Stanford
6. Tennessee
7. Penn State
8. Kansas State
9. Purdue
10. Texas Tech
11. Georgia
12. Utah
13. Louisiana Tech
14. Notre Dame
15. Virginia
16. Boston College
17. North Carolina
18. Minnesota
19. Washington
20. TCU
21. Arizona
22. UC-Santa Barbara
23. Rutgers
24. Virginia Tech
25. Ohio State
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NEWS SERVICE PRESEASON POLL
1. Connecticut
2. Duke
3. Texas
4. Texas Tech
5. Purdue
6. Kansas State
7. Tennessee
8. LSU
9. Minnesota
10. UC-Santa Barbara
11. Georgia
12. Ohio State
13. Stanford
14. Rutgers
15. Penn State
16. Boston College
17. Notre Dame
18. George Washington
19. Louisiana Tech
20. Arizona
21. North Carolina
22. TCU
23. Cincinnati
24. Vanderbilt
25. Utah
