University of Houston
0-7
TCU
3-4
Women's Basketball Falls to TCU on Thursday
12/1/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 1, 2011
HOUSTON - The University of Houston women's basketball team couldn't find a rhythm against TCU's defense Thursday evening, falling to the Horned Frogs by a score of 80-35 at Hofheinz Pavilion.
Houston jumped out to a 6-1 lead over the first three minutes of the contest and held an 8-7 advantage at the 14:39 mark of the opening half before TCU mounted a 19-2 run over a seven-minute period en route to a 35-18 lead at the break.
The Cougars couldn't claw back into the contest to open the final 20 minutes of play as TCU scored the first seven points and held Houston without its first field goal of the second half until the 7:58 mark.
For the seventh-straight game, senior guard Roxana Button scored in double digits with 10 points despite struggling to find an open shot the entire night.
Freshman guard Danielle Parks tallied eight points and drained two more 3-pointers, while sophomore center Mae Woods added six points.
Voché Martin, a freshman center, led the Cougars with a career-best 11 rebounds to go with four points in 24 minutes, while Terran Alford pulled down eight boards.
For the fourth-straight game, the short-handed Cougars played with only seven student-athletes as TCU outscored Houston by a 47-10 margin from the bench.
Houston managed to shoot only 19 percent (9-of-47) from the field while the Horned Frogs shot 49 percent (32-of-66) from the field after a blazing 58-percent clip in the second half.
The Cougars couldn't solve TCU's stingy defense, turning the ball over 22 times compared to only 11 Frog miscues.
Houston will take to the road for only the second time this year to face UTSA at 2 p.m., Sunday afternoon in San Antonio.
