TCU Beats West Virginia, 81-65

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TCU forced 19 West Virginia turnovers in a 81-65 win over the Mountaineers Monday at Schollmaier Arena.     The Horned Frogs (17-7, 6-5) turned up the defense in the second half, holding the Mountaineers (8-16, 3-8) to 30 percent shooting after allowing 50 percent in the first half.     TCU never trailed after the opening five minutes of play. The lead was pushed to double-figures on one of four 3-pointers by Trevian Tennyson with 1:43 to go in the first. The Frogs eased into a 47-35 halftime lead thanks to 55.2 percent shooting from the field.     On a ferocious Chuck O'Bannon Jr. dunk, the Horned Frogs reached their largest lead of the game, 77-55, with 5:02 to play.     Tennyson tied Emanuel Miller and Jameer Nelson Jr. for the team lead with 14 points. Nelson added three steals and a career-high four blocked shots.     Micah Peavy finished with nine points, a team-high seven rebounds and five assists.     Raequan Battle led WVU with 21 points and five rebounds.

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00:00 The TCU Horned Frogs and the West Virginia Mountaineers went head to head here tonight

00:08 at Shulmai Arena and the Frogs were able to come away with a much needed win with a final

00:12 score of 81-65.

00:14 The team was led by Jameer Nelson with 14 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 assists.

00:19 The Horned Frogs went into the half up by 12 and credit to their defense for forcing

00:23 11 turnovers.

00:24 TCU came out and continued to extend that lead leaving the Mountaineers 16 points behind.

00:29 Jacoby Cole says this was a much needed win after two consecutive losses against Texas

00:33 and Iowa State.

00:34 Every game is a must win, but this one especially just because coming off two losses is pretty

00:39 tough and that bounce back game is tough to deal with.

00:43 I think we had to practice good, I think we had to walk throughs, I thought we were a

00:47 lot more focused coming into the game.

00:49 I thought we stuck more to the game plan.

00:51 The TCU Horned Frogs, now 17-7, will head back on the road to face the 15-9 Kansas State

00:56 Wildcats on Saturday.

00:58 Tip off is at 11am.

00:59 For all things TCU basketball, tune into Spectrum Cable Channel 15 every Wednesday and Thursday

01:04 night.

01:05 I'm Delaina Zepeda and you've just been Connected.

01:07 Thanks for watching.

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