TCU women face Kansas in basketball regular-season finale

TCU will host Kansas on Monday in the first of two games between the Horned Frogs and the Jayhawks, now that each team’s Big 12 tournament positioning has been decided.

The next matchup, no matter the outcome of the regular-season finale, will come on a neutral floor in the opening round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament on Friday in Oklahoma City.

The Frogs (15-13, 7-10 Big 12) will be the conference’s No. 7 seed, and Kansas (5-23, 0-17) will remain the 10th seed, even if it is able to get its first Big 12 win of the season at Schollmaier Arena.

With 15 points in Saturday’s 71-58 loss at No. 8 Texas, guard Zahna Medley sits just three points shy of breaking Sandora Irvin’s all-time TCU career points record, 1,892, going into her last game at Schollmaier Arena.

Medley already owns TCU records for career 3-pointers (304) and career points per game at over 15, and is second in career assists (485).

Medley is one of two players in Big 12 history to score 1,500 points, hit 250 3-point field goals, dish out 400 assists and get 125 or more steals in their career. The other player to achieve the feat is current Dallas Wings star and former Baylor guard Odyssey Sims.

TCU is taking on a team to close the regular season that it will face in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament for the third time in four seasons. TCU was swept in the two games by Kansas in 2012-13 and by Texas in 2014-15.

The Horned Frogs will again be without Veja Hamilton, who had averaged 10 points a game, and Destynee Hives-McCray, both seniors, after the two were suspended indefinitely before the loss at Texas for an unspecified violation of team rules.

Hamilton played more than 28 minutes per game, and Hives-McCray averaged just under 15.

This story was originally published February 28, 2016 at 5:17 PM with the headline "TCU women face Kansas in basketball regular-season finale."