{"id":354487,"date":"2025-11-04T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354487\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:34:11","slug":"tcu-mens-basketball-suffers-opening-night-upset-loss-to-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354487\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU men\u2019s basketball suffers opening night upset loss to New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT WORTH \u2014 Coleton Benson scored 24 points to help New Orleans hold off TCU<\/a> 78-74 in a season opener Monday night.<\/p>\n

Benson had 12 points and Kendrick Osby scored 10 to help New Orleans jump out to a 37-17 lead in the first 13 minutes and a 44-28 advantage at halftime.<\/p>\n

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TCU used a 12-0 run to cut the deficit to 70-62 with 4:01 left to play.<\/p>\n

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Jakevion Buckley made two free throws to end the run, but Jayden Pierre scored four in an 8-0 spurt and the Horned Frogs trailed 72-70 with 2:01 remaining. Tavaj Cope scored for New Orleans, but Brock Harding hit a jumper to keep it a two-point game.<\/p>\n

Pierre and Tanner Toolson missed 3-pointers following a Privateers turnover and Benson grabbed the rebound, was fouled and hit two foul shots for a two-possession lead as New Orleans prevailed.<\/p>\n

Buckley filled up the stat sheet with 11 points, nine assists, four steals and a block. He also had 10 of the Privateers\u2019 19 turnovers. MJ Thomas scored 10 on 5-for-5 shooting off the bench.<\/p>\n

David Punch topped the Frogs with 19 points and eight rebounds. Micah Robinson had 14 points and Pierre and Xavier Edmonds both scored 11.<\/p>\n

The home loss to a nonconference opponent was TCU\u2019s first since 2022.<\/p>\n

TCU, the only team in the Big 12 Conference that failed to make 200 3-pointers last season, made 3 of 27 (11%) to begin this one.<\/p>\n

Find more TCU coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2014 Coleton Benson scored 24 points to help New Orleans hold off TCU 78-74 in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":354488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,10857,7371,7372,62,22503,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-354487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115490276431392835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}