BEVO BEAT Women's Basketball
Women’s preview: Texas vs. TCU
Posted January 2nd, 2020
Texas vs. TCU
When: 6 p.m. Friday
Where: Erwin Center
TV/radio: Longhorn Network/105.3 FM The Bat
About the series: Texas leads 44-3
| No. 25 Texas (8-4, 0-0 Big 12) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Pos. | Player | Class | Ht. | PPG | RPG |
| 1 | G | Sug Sutton | Sr. | 5-8 | 10.3 | 3.7* |
| 0 | G | Celeste Taylor | Fr. | 5-11 | 9.1 | 4.2 |
| 12 | G | Jada Underwood | Sr. | 6-0 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 24 | F | Joyner Holmes | Sr. | 6-3 | 14.8 | 9.2 |
| 35 | F | Charli Collier | Soph. | 6-5 | 15.0 | 11.4 |
| Coach: Karen Aston (173-76, 8th year at Texas; 274-139, 13th year overall) | ||||||
| *-indicates assists per game. | ||||||
About the Longhorns: Texas has won its last four games. … Texas went 3-0 against TCU during the 2018-19 season. Two of the games were decided by a total of eight points. … Collier has recorded nine double-doubles this season. Nationally, that ranks behind only Auburn’s Unique Thompson (11) and Oklahoma State’s Natasha Mack (10). … Texas has won the rebounding battle in nine of its 12 games. … Five different players (Collier, Holmes, Sutton, Taylor and senior guard Lashann Higgs) have led Texas in scoring at least once this season.
| TCU (9-2, 0-0 Big 12) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Pos. | Player | Class | Ht. | PPG | RPG |
| 10 | G | Jaycee Bradley | Sr. | 5-10 | 10.1 | 1.9 |
| 15 | G | Jayde Woods | Sr. | 6-1 | 9.5 | 4.5 |
| 20 | G | Lauren Heard | Jr. | 5-9 | 15.6 | 5.3 |
| 25 | G | Kianna Ray | Sr. | 6-1 | 11.3 | 3.1* |
| 33 | F | Adeola Akomalafe | Sr. | 6-1 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| Coach: Raegan Pebley (104-73, 6th year at TCU; 260-248, 17th year overall) | ||||||
| *-indicates assists per game. | ||||||
About the Horned Frogs: Ray, who graduated from Austin’s Bowie High, ranks sixth in TCU’s history with her 354 career assists. She is 75 points away from becoming the 20th member of TCU’s 1,000-point club. … Sophomore forward Yummy Morris scored a career-high 16 points in a 82-70 loss at Middle Tennessee on Sunday. … While at South Dakota during the 2017-18 season, Bradley ranked third in the Summit League with her 77 three-pointers. … Two of TCU’s all-time wins over Texas have come under Pebley.
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