{"id":490021,"date":"2026-01-03T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:46:29","slug":"punch-leads-tcu-against-baylor-after-20-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490021\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch leads TCU against Baylor after 20-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor Bears (10-2) at TCU Horned Frogs (10-3)<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth, Texas; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Horned Frogs -1.5; over\/under is 153.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: TCU plays Baylor after David Punch scored 20 points in TCU\u2019s 115-64 win over the Jackson State Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs are 7-3 in home games. TCU ranks ninth in the Big 12 with 9.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Xavier Edmonds averaging 2.1.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears are 0-1 on the road. Baylor averages 10.8 turnovers per game and is 8-0 when turning the ball over less than opponents.<\/p>\n<p>TCU makes 46.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.5 percentage points higher than Baylor has allowed to its opponents (42.3%). Baylor averages 8.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 7.3 per game TCU allows.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs and Bears face off Saturday for the first time in Big 12 play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Brock Harding is averaging 8.9 points, six assists and 2.1 steals for the Horned Frogs. Punch is averaging 14.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Carr is scoring 21.3 points per game with 5.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists for the Bears. Tounde Yessoufou is averaging 19.5 points and 5.9 rebounds while shooting 51.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Horned Frogs: 8-2, averaging 78.8 points, 32.1 rebounds, 16.9 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Bears: 8-2, averaging 97.3 points, 39.7 rebounds, 19.6 assists, 7.5 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 52.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.9 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baylor Bears (10-2) at TCU Horned Frogs (10-3) Fort Worth, Texas; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,3917,219987,219988,1369,2076,221033,192792,7371,7372,1385,62,358,107841,177948,3187,5028,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,200875],"class_list":{"0":"post-490021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baylor-bears","10":"tag-baylor-bears-mens-basketball","11":"tag-cameron-carr","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-college-basketball","14":"tag-data-skrive","15":"tag-david-punch","16":"tag-fort-worth","17":"tag-fortworth","18":"tag-mens-college-basketball","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-texas-christian-horned-frogs","22":"tag-texas-christian-horned-frogs-mens-basketball","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-tx-state-wire","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-xavier-edmonds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832657413716419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490021","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=490021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}