Improving to 3-0 in Mountain West Conference play this season, the Lady Frogs reversed a 0-3 start of the season to top the conference standings.En route to breaking into the NCAA top 25 ranks, they have won 13 of their last 14 games, six of them by 20 points or more, according to espn.com.
In their Mountain West Conference opener Jan. 3 at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum against the UNLV Rebels, the Lady Frogs had a 63.9 percent shooting average in the first half, and an 18 point lead at the intermission. The women finished out the game beating the Rebels by 25 points.
Senior forward Hanna Biernacka, a transfer from LSU, led the team in scoring with 26 points. Senior guard Ashley Davis, junior forward Lorie Butler-Rayford and junior guard Adrianne Ross also reached double digit points in the opener to round out the Lady Frogs’ effort.
The Lady Frogs faced the Colorado State Rams on Jan. 6 at the coliseum for their second conference game of the season, and they made their place in the TCU record books. The team toppled the Rams with an 86-36 win, the largest win margin in history of any TCU women’s basketball team in a conference game, according to gofrogs.com.
Ross reached a new career milestone with 26 points, was 8-13 shooting from the floor, made 60 percent of her 3-pointers and was 7-8 from the free-throw line. On defense, she had three rebounds and three steals. The game kept the Lady Frogs home winning streak intact as they have not lost a game in the coliseum since Jan. 25, 2005, against the BYU Cougars, according to espn.com.
The team continued to overpower their opponents in their conference contest against the Air Force Falcons in Colorado Springs on Jan. 11 with an 87-61 victory.
Junior point guard Helen Roden, Ross, Davis and Biernacka all scored double figures, while Roden and Biernacka both had nine rebounds a piece. The game brought the Lady Frogs winning streak to seven games and their record to 13-4 this season.
Davis and Ross are leading the team in scoring, averaging 16.5 and 17.8 points per game, respectively.
The Lady Frogs are on a weeklong break, before they return to action for their matchup Thursday at Utah.
