Men's Basketball Travels To TCU For Big 12-BIG EAST Battle Matchup

Thursday, December 5

Fort Worth, Texas

8 p.m. ET

Xavier University

TCU

Men's Basketball Travels To TCU For Big 12-BIG EAST Battle Matchup

12.03.24 | Men's Basketball

GAME NOTES AT TCU

Musketeers play three of their next four games on the road.

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers, 7-1, visit the TCU Horned Frogs, 4-3, on Thursday night in Fort Worth, Texas, in a Big 12-BIG EAST Battle matchup. This game begins a stretch of three of four games on the road for the Musketeers.

Xavier is 4-1 in the Big 12-BIG EAST Battle games, including wins over Oklahoma, at Oklahoma State, at TCU and vs. West Virginia. XU, which fell to then-No. 6 Houston 66-60 last season, won 67-59 at TCU in the 2019-20 season.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STATS INFORMATION

TV/Stream: ESPN+ with Pete Sousa and Bryndon Manzer.
Xavier Radio: 700 WLW with play-by-play from Xavier Hall of Famer Joe Sunderman ('79) and analysis from XU all-time leading scorer and Hall of Famer Byron Larkin ('88). XU broadcast is also available on the Varsity Network and on Sirius XM.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.

X FACTORS

• Xavier, 7-1, is coming off a 71-68 win over South Carolina State on Sunday.
• Xavier's game at TCU begins a stretch of three of four games on the road. XU plays at TCU on Dec. 5, hosts Morgan State on Dec. 10, is at No. 14 Cincinnati on Dec. 14 and plays its BIG EAST opener at No. 25 and two-time defending National Champion UConn on Dec. 18. After that stretch XU hosts No. 5 Marquette in its BIG EAST home opener on Dec. 21.
• Xavier leads the BIG EAST in fastbreak points (fourth in the nation in at 20.6 ppg.). Xavier is third in the BIG EAST in assists per game (25th in the nation at 18.0 apg.), free-throw percentage (33rd in the nation at .776), 3-point percentage (30th in the nation at .387) and steals at 9.3 spg. (42nd in the nation).
• Xavier has had nine different players score in double figures in at least one game this season.
• Xavier graduate student Zach Freemantle, preseason Second Team All-BIG EAST, is second on the team in scoring (10th in the BIG EAST at 15.6 ppg.) and leads the team in rebounding (fourth in BIG EAST at 7.8 rpg.). He leads the league in defensive rebounding at 6.4 drpg.
• Xavier's Zach Freemantle has been named to this week's BIG EAST Honor Roll. Freemantle averaged 15.7 points, 8.7 boards and 1.7 steals in three games. He made the All-Tournament Team at the Ft. Myers Tip-Off.
• Xavier junior newcomer Ryan Conwell, a preseason Third Team All-BIG EAST selection, leads the team in scoring at 16.5 ppg. (sixth in the BIG EAST), while leading the BIG EAST and ranking ninth in the nation at 3.8 3-point field goals made per game.
• Xavier graduate student Dayvion McKnight, a preseason Second Team All-BIG EAST selection, has averaged 11.4 ppg. and a team-high 4.5 apg. (tied for seventh in the BIG EAST).
• Xavier graduate student Jerome Hunter has scored in double figures in two of the last three games, including 10 points on 5-6 shooting in a season-high 27 minutes vs. South Carolina St.
• Xavier sophomore Dailyn Swain contributed 14 points, six rebounds and a career-high five steals vs. South Carolina. Swain is tied for fifth in the BIG EAST in steals at 2.0 spg. and is 11th in the BIG EAST in defensive rebounding at 4.6 drpg.