{"id":487423,"date":"2026-01-02T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487423\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:05:15","slug":"game-thread-nnaji-expected-to-debut-as-baylor-basketball-opens-big-12-play-at-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487423\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread: Nnaji Expected to Debut as Baylor Basketball Opens Big 12 play at TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013 <\/strong>Baylor men&#8217;s basketball (10-2) travels to TCU (10-3) to open up Big 12 conference play on Saturday, Jan. 3, at 1 p.m., CT. The game will be televised on TNT. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Computer Models<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Torvik:\u00a0<\/strong>Baylor (41), TCU (50)\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prediction:<\/b>TCU 81, Baylor 78<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>KenPom:<\/strong>\u00a0Baylor (30), TCU (54)\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: <\/strong>TCU 79, Baylor 78<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haslametrics:<\/strong> Baylor (32), TCU (60)\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: <\/strong>Baylor 79, TCU 78<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evan Miyakawa:<\/strong> Baylor (36), TCU (41)\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: <\/strong>TCU 81, Baylor 77<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Massey:<\/strong> Baylor (23), TCU (49)\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: <\/strong>Baylor 74, TCU 72<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Projected Lineups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baylor Starters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Guard:\u00a0Obi Agbim (5Sr.)<\/strong> 6-3, 185 (12 ppg; 4 asst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guard:\u00a0Tounde Yessoufou (Fr.) <\/strong>6-5, 215 (19 ppg; 6 reb; 2 steals)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward:\u00a0Cameron Carr (RSo.) <\/strong>6-5, 175 (21 ppg; 6 reb; 2 blks)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward:\u00a0Dan Skillings\u00a0(Sr.)<\/strong> 6-7, 200 (12 ppg; 7 reb; 3 asst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward:\u00a0Michael Rataj (Sr.)<\/strong> 6-8, 230 (10 ppg; 7 reb; 3 asst)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Baylor Bench<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Center:\u00a0Caden Powell (Sr.)<\/strong> 6-9, 225 (7 ppg; 9 reb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guard:\u00a0Isaac Williams IV (So.)<\/strong> 6-1, 190 (12 ppg; 3 asst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Center: James Nnaji (Fr.)<\/strong>\u00a07-0 250 (31st pick in 2023 NBA draft)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Projected Lineups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TCU Starters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Guard: Brock Harding (Sr.)\u00a0<\/b>6-0, 160 (9 ppg; 6 asst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guard: Jayden Pierre (Sr.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-0, 180 (11 ppg; 2 asst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward: Liutaurus Lelevicius (Jr.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-7, 225 (8 ppg; 4 reb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward: David Punch (So.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-7, 245 (14 ppg; 8 reb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forward: Xavier Edmonds (Jr.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-8, 245 (11 ppg; 4 reb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TCU Bench<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Guard: Micah Robinson (So.)\u00a0<\/b>6-6, 230 (10 ppg; 5 reb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guard: Tanner Tolson (Jr.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-5, 195 (7 ppg; 3 reb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guard: Jace Posey (So.)\u00a0<\/strong>6-5, 220 (6 ppg; 3 reb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013 Baylor men&#8217;s basketball (10-2) travels to TCU (10-3) to open up Big 12 conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[220076,1444,5229,220077,1339,26106,220075,7371,7372,220074,10077,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-487423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-1-3-2026","9":"tag-1444","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-ashley-hodge","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-baylor","14":"tag-baylor-at-tcu-basketball","15":"tag-fort-worth","16":"tag-fortworth","17":"tag-sicem365","18":"tag-tcu","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115826362066693484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487423","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=487423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}