Women's Basketball Faces Tough Road Test at TCU
12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 1, 2010
GAME #5 • HOUSTON (4-0) at TCU (3-3)
GAME NOTES - HOUSTON
GAME DAY INFORMATION
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. CT | Fort Worth, Texas | Daniel-Meyer Coliseum (7,201)
Radio: Houston ISP Sports Network online broadcast powered by Stretch Internet
Jeremy Branham (play-by-play)
Internet: Listen Live
Series Record: Houston leads, 22-11 | Last Meeting: Dec. 31, 2009 (L, 66-61)
HOUSTON - The University of Houston women's basketball team looks to remain unbeaten against TCU at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth. The Cougars have won three-consecutive road contests to improve to 4-0, marking the best start since the 2004-05 season.
Houston survived a furious Oral Roberts' rally to top the Golden Eagles by a score of 93-89 in its last action on Saturday. The Cougars posted a 12-2 run to lead by as many as 10 points in the second half, but ORU evened the contest at 85-85 with just over four minutes to play.
Brittney Scott broke the deadlock with a trey from the corner with 2:56 remaining, and followed with two made free-throws to give the Cougars a four-point lead with a 1:50 left to play.
After ORU cut the lead back down to one point with under 20 seconds remaining, Scott converted two more free-throws to give the Cougars a 92-89 edge. Landry then wrestled away the ensuing inbounds pass and made one of the two free-throws to put the contest out of reach.
ABOUT TCU
The Lady Frogs return four starters from last season's team that went 22-9 and claimed the regular-season Mountain West Conference title en route to the NCAA Tournament.
TCU extended its home-winning streak to 23 games with wins over Houston Baptist and SMU to kick off the season. After defeating UTSA on the road, the Lady Frogs dropped all three contests at the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands to No. 10 West Virginia, No. 17 Iowa State and Viriginia.
Seniors Emily Carter and Helena Sverrisdottir lead the Lady Frogs with 22.7 and 14.7 points per game, respectively. Starr Crawford paces the team in rebounds with 9.8 per contest, while adding 11.0 points per game.
SERIES HISTORY
The Cougars and Lady Frogs have met 33 times since the 1982-83 season, with Houston holding a 22-11 advantage. The two teams last met on Dec. 31, 2009, at Hofheinz Pavilion, as TCU escaped with a 66-61 victory. Porsche Landry led the Cougars with 19 points, while Courtney Taylor missed the contest with an injury. TCU's Helena Sverrisdottir paced the Lady Frogs with 26 points.
In 19 meetings at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth, the Cougars have come out on top on 11 occasions. The two teams have a long history, playing against each other as members of both the Southwest Conference and Conference USA. From 1983-96, the Cougars posted a 23-4 record against the Lady Frogs in SWC play, while edging TCU by a 5-4 margin in C-USA action from 2002-05.
LANDRY EARNS C-USA PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS
Junior guard Porsche Landry was tabbed the Conference USA Player of the Week after averaging 25.5 points, 4.0 assists and 3.0 steals per game to lead the Cougars to thrilling road victories over Louisiana Tech and Oral Roberts.
Landry tallied a team-high 20 points at Louisiana Tech, highlighted by a 3-of-4 effort from 3-point range. With Houston trailing by 12 points with 9:04 remaining, Landry sparked a 9-0 run with back-to-back 3-pointers as the Cougars charged back to steal the victory.
The Houston native followed up with a career-high 31 points to go with five assists in the Cougars' victory over Oral Roberts on Saturday. Landry was 10-of-14 from the field, 3-of-4 from 3-point range and 8-of-9 from the charity stripe against the Golden Eagles.
UP NEXT
The Cougars return home after four-consecutive road contests to host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Houston follows with a home contest against UTSA on Tuesday before traveling to the Dual in the Desert Tournament in Las Vegas from Dec. 18-20.
