TCU
Iowa State
Preview: No. 5 Iowa State
2/9/2026 3:41:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Horned Frogs host their fourth top 10 team Tuesday at 8 p.m.
FORT WORTH – TCU (14-9, 4-6) will host No. 5 Iowa State (21-2, 8-2) on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in a game that will air on FS1.
NOTES
- The Horned Frogs will host a top 10 team for the fourth time this season, which is the most in program history.
- TCU is 10-5 at home this season.
- TCU is 1-5 against the AP Top 25 and 0-3 against the top 10 this season. The win came against No. 10 Florida.
- TCU is 10-10 against AP Top 25 teams at home since the 2021-22 season.
- The Frogs have won six of the last 11 games against top 10 opponents at home.
- It would be TCU's highest ranked win since a 68-67 home win against No. 2 Houston on Jan. 13, 2024.
- Of TCU's nine losses this season, six were by six points or less.
- Sophomore David Punch leads the team in points (14.3) and rebounds (7.2).
- Punch is one of three players averaging at least 14 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.0 assist, 1.0 steal and 2.0 blocks.
- Punch's 2.1 blocks per game ranks second in the Big 12 and 19th nationally.
- Punch ranks 11th in the Big 12 with 7.2 rebounds per game.
- Xavier Edmonds earned his second Big 12 Starting Five recognition on Monday.
- Edmonds has a streak of five-straight double-doubles, the most by a TCU player since 2017.
- Edmonds is averaging 19.6 points and 10.4 rebounds in the last five games.
- Edmonds ranks second in the Big 12 with 58.1 percent shooting in conference games.
- Liutauras Lelevicius is TCU's top 3-point threat at 40.5 percent. He is shooting 51.6 percent in Big 12 play.
- Brock Harding ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 25th nationally with 6.1 assists per game.
- Harding has had five or more assists in all but one (at CU) Big 12 game.
- Harding ranks eighth in the Big 12 with 1.7 steals per game.
- Harding is one of three players in the Big 12 averaging at least 8.0 points, 6.0 assists and 1.0 steal.
- Tanner Toolson is 56 points away from 1,000 for his career.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 with 13.9 turnovers forced per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 in turnover margin at +2.6.
- TCU has had less than 10 turnovers in a game seven times this season.
- TCU ranks sixth in the Big 12 with 7.3 steals per game.
- TCU ranks third in the Big 12 and 26th nationally with 15.1 fastbreak points per game.
- TCU ranks second in the Big 12 and 27th nationally with 4.8 blocks per game.
- It is Jamie Dixon's 10th season with the Horned Frogs. His 518 career wins ranks 20th among active coaches.
- Under Dixon in Schollmaier Arena, TCU is 126-46 overall and 49-37 in Big 12 games.
- Dixon was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in August.
- Dixon is one of just 11 active head coaches who have made at least 15 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
- Iowa State is 21-2 overall and 8-2 in the Big 12 following its fifth-straight win, a 72-69 victory over Baylor on Saturday.
- Milan Momcilovic ranks eighth in the Big 12 with a team-leading scoring average of 18.7 points per game. Joshua Jefferson is right behind him at 17.2 points.
- The Cyclones have one of the best point guards in the country in Tamin Lipsey who ranks second in the nation in assist/turnover radio at 4.50. He also leads the conference with 2.35 steals per game.
- Iowa State ranks eighth in defensive efficiency and 11th in offensive efficiency. The Cyclones' 3-point percentage of 40.7 ranks fourth in the nation and their 51.3 percent shooting from the field ranks eighth.
SERIES HISTORY
- Iowa State leads the all-time series 18-14. The series is tied 7-7 in games played in Fort Worth.
- The Cyclones have won the past six meetings in the series. Prior to that the Frogs had won eight of nine.
- The last win by TCU in the series came on Jan. 22, 2022 in Ames. The last win by TCU at home was on Feb. 9, 2021.
- TCU guard Brock Harding is 0-2 all-time against Iowa State having faced the Cyclones twice while playing for Iowa. He had 10 points and eight assists last season and five points and three assists as a freshman in 2023.
LAST TIME OUT
- TCU erased an 18-point deficit to beat Kansas State, 84-82, on Saturday.
- Xavier Edmonds led TCU with a career-high 26 points on 9-of-10 shooting from the field and added 10 rebounds.
UP NEXT
- TCU will play at Oklahoma State on Saturday at 11 a.m. on ESPN2.
