TCU-Florida Gulf Coast Postgame Notes
11/11/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 11, 2011
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POSTGAME NOTES
TCU 73, Florida Gulf Coast 72
Fort Worth, Texas (Daniel-Meyer Coliseum)
Nov. 11, 2011
Attendance: 4,158
- TCU won its sixth consecutive season opener and its fifth in a row at home. The Frogs have now opened their season with a victory 11 of the last 12 seasons.
- Jim Christian is now 8-2 in home openers in his career as a head coach.
- J.R. Cadot led TCU in scoring with 16 points. It marked the eighth time in the last nine games dating back to last season that he has reached double figures.
- Cadot shot 7-of-9 from the field (77.8 percent). He led TCU last season in field-goal percentage at 65.9 percent, the second-best single-season figure in Horned Frog history. Cadot shot 75.3 perfect at home last season.
- Hank Thorns totaled five assists, the 25th time in his 33-game TCU career he has had five or more helpers.
- TCU made 11 of first 12 free throws before finishing the game 15-of-21 at the line. The two teams combined for 31 free-throw attempts in the first half and only nine after intermission.
- TCU forced 29 turnovers, including 19 in the first half. The most any Frog opponent had in any game last season was 19.
- The 29 FGCU turnovers marked the most forced by TCU in Jim Christian's four-year tenure as head coach and the most overall since Grambling State committed 30 against the Frogs on Nov. 24, 2006.
- The turnovers led to a 30-18 TCU scoring advantage in points off turnovers.
- Ten Frogs saw action Friday, including five newcomers: Kyan Anderson, Nate Butler, Connell Crossland, Adrick McKinney and Craig Williams.
- Butler and McKinney earned starts in their first career games as Frogs.
