FORT WORTH<\/b> \u2013 TCU fell behind early and was unable to take a lead against the top-ranked team in the nation Saturday afternoon in an 86-73 loss to No. 1 Arizona.<\/p>\n
It took the Wildcats (16-0, 3-0) just over 11 minutes to amass a 20-point lead. Arizona’s defense held the Horned Frogs (11-5, 1-2) to 32.1 percent shooting in the first half, which the Wildcats led 43-27.<\/p>\n
TCU improved its shooting in the second half to 51.6 percent and scored the first seven points of the period to cut it to 43-34 with 17:43 to play. Following a called timeout, Arizona responded by scoring the next seven points.<\/p>\n
The Wildcat lead reached 20 two minutes later, 56-36. TCU then went on a 17-7 run in which eight of the points came from Tanner Toolson<\/a>. The Frogs trailed 63-53 with 9:08 to play following a Toolson put-back jumper. \u00a0<\/p>\n Toolson sank one of his three 3-pointers to cut it to 65-58 with 6:56 remaining. TCU did not get any closer as Arizona responded by making seven of its final 10 shot attempts.<\/p>\n Toolson scored 17 of his game-high tying 20 points in the second half.<\/p>\n Brock Harding<\/a> and Jayden Pierre<\/a> each scored 11 points. David Punch<\/a> scored 10 to go with a team-high eight rebounds.<\/p>\n Arizona’s Koa Peat tied Toolson in points with 20 on 10-of-17 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n Going against one of the top rebounding and largest teams in the country, TCU was outrebounded by just six, 38-32.<\/p>\n The Horned Frogs will return to action on Wednesday at No. 9 BYU. The game will start at 10 p.m. CT and air on ESPN2.<\/p>\n TEAM NOTES<\/b> INDIVIDUAL NOTES<\/b>
\n– Arizona leads the all-time series 3-2.
\n– TCU moved to 8-4 at home this season. The loss snaps a five-game win streak in Schollmaier Arena.
\n– TCU moved to 1-3 against AP Top 25 teams this season. \u00a0
\n– TCU moved to 1-11 all-time against No. 1 ranked teams.
\n– TCU trailed 43-27 at halftime. The 16-point deficit tied its largest deficit at the half this season (New Orleans).
\n– TCU’s largest deficit of 21 points with 6:30 to play tied its largest of the season (New Orleans).
\n– TCU had six blocks against the much taller Wildcats. Arizona had two blocks. \u00a0
\n– The 13-point margin was the closest any team has been to Arizona in 11 games. UConn lost to Arizona, 71-67, on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n
\n– David Punch<\/a> scored in double-figures for the 11th-straight game with 10.
\n– Punch had two blocked shots. He has at least one block in all 16 games this season.
\n– Punch led TCU in rebounding for the 12th time this season with eight boards.
\n– Tanner Toolson<\/a> scored a team-high 20 points. It was the second time this season and the 11th time in his career he scored 20 or more points.
\n– Toolson scored 17 of his points in the second half.
\n– Brock Harding<\/a> led TCU in assists for the 13th time this season with six.
\n– Harding scored in double-figures for the sixth time this season and the first time in six games with 10 points.
\n– Jayden Pierre<\/a> was 1-of-3 from 3-point range. It was his seventh-straight game with a made three.
\n– Xavier Edmonds<\/a> was 1-of-3 from 3-point range. It was his fifth-straight game with a made three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2013 TCU fell behind early and was unable to take a lead against the top-ranked team…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":508730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-508729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115877063369342101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508729","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=508729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}