Arkansas Basketball at TCU (Charity Exhibition)

8:40 -TCU wins the tip and we’re on our way to Dickies Arena. Big Z sinks Arkansas’ first bucket with a three-point splash off an assist from Boogie Fland. (3-2, Arkansas)

6:17 – Arkansas forward Adou Thiero hits a finger roll and one layup to push the Hogs’ lead to five points. (7-2, Arkansas)

5:13 – Freshman Boogie Fland is sent to the free throw line for a shooting foul. He surrenders both freebies and guard Johnell Davis replaces Karter Knox. (9-5, Arkansas)

4:13 – The Horned Frogs lead for the first time after a layup by David Punch. (10-9, TCU)

2:35 – Adou Thiero ends a scoring drought and brings Arkansas within two points. Theiro then blocks a David Punch layup out of bounds at the other end and we have a media timeout. (13-11, TCU)

1:02 – The man on fire is Adou Theiro, who has 11 points after a three-pointer in the corner. He is a perfect 5-for-5 on shot attempts. (17-16, TCU)

0:00 – TCU ends the first quarter with a three-point shot from Brendan Wenzel to give itself the lead. (20-19, TCU)

9:00 am -Both teams trade missed three-point jumps to start the second quarter, but a David Punch foul on Trevon Brazile sends him to the charity stripe. Brazile sinks one shot. (20-20)

7:03 – Freshman wing Billy Richmond III gets his first points of the game with a perfect cut at the rim, Adou Thiero is credited with the assist. The Horned Frogs respond with back-to-back field goals. (25-22, TCU)

6:10 – AND-ONE ADOU THIERO! He sinks the free throw and the Hogs lead again. (26-25, Arkansas)

Comments

– Arkansas center Jonas Aidoo will not play tonight, Chuck Barrett said on pregame radio. However, it is expected that he will play next week.

-Guard Jaden Karuletwa and guard Melo Sanchez were also not spotted during the early warm-ups, according to Anthony Kristensen of WholeHogSports.

WHO: No. 16 Arkansas Razorbacks vs. TCU Horned Frogs

What: Exhibition game for charity. The Horned Frogs will support the Cook Children’s Health Foundation and the Razorbacks’ charity is the Arkansas Children’s Foundation.

When: Friday, November 1 at 7pm CT

Where: Fort Worth, Texas — Dickies Arena (13,500)

TV/stream: No

Radio: Learfield Razorback Sports Network (Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman)

Sirius/XM: No

Fresh off an 85-69 charity exhibition win over No. 1 Kansas last Friday, the No. 16 Arkansas Razorbacks are set for another charity exhibition game against TCU on Friday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

The game against the Horned Frogs will not be televised, but there will be radio coverage on the Learfield Razorback Sports Network, with Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman on the call.

“We understand how important it is that we go to Dallas,” Arkansas head coach Chin Coleman said Wednesday. “A lot of our alumni live in Dallas to give them a chance to see the team, and we took the team to Pine Bluff, we took the team to Hot Springs, and now we’re taking the team to an area where we have a huge alumni. But for us, as far as basketball goes, it’s a road game. So our routine as a road game, we’re going to follow our routine.

“So they’re going to understand what it looks like and what we do. What are our routines? What are our habits, right? So they can understand it the next time we come back to Dallas, on the road when we play Baylor, we have a routine You know what time we eat You know what time it is So we use it as an experience for roadkill is what we like to call it: roadkill.

Despite last week’s win, first-year head coach John Calipari said his team still has a lot of work to do before the start of the regular season, such as rebounding and ball security, but he likes where his team is.

“I look at this differently than maybe everyone else,” Calipari said after the game. “I’m happy we played like that. Did we look organized? Did it look like we were really trying to play hard and defend? We’ve only been together for a short time, so I’m happy because I wanted people to do that too. ” go away and say, ‘That was fun to watch.'”

TCU is led by Jamie Dixon, who is heading into his ninth season with the program. Like the Hogs, the Frogs have a team full of new faces. TCU returns just three players from last year’s team in 2024-25, and the Horned Frogs lost their top seven scorers.

“A brand new team,” Coleman said. “First of all, they have a brand new team, just like we have a brand new team. They’re probably only bringing back one player, and that’s who they are. I hope I don’t mess up his name, but he was a transfer from Kansas and everyone else.” is quite new for that team.

“Last year they had five fifth-year seniors that went to the NCAA Tournament. So they’re new, but again, we’re not taking anything for granted in terms of how they performed in that first game, right?” We’ll be better in their game against us because it’s their second game, and you’re right, they watched us on film.”

One name on TCU’s roster that won’t be new to Arkansas fans in Trazarien White. The Mansfield, Texas native played last season for North Carolina-Wilmington, which visited Bud Walton Arena on December 30.

In that game, which Arkansas won 106-90, White dropped 28 points on 9-for-20 shooting and pulled down five rebounds. He led UNC-Wilmington in scoring that day, but former Razorback Keyon Menifield Jr. surpassed him by 32 points.

Arkansas and TCU last met in January 2020 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge, a game the Razorbacks won 78-67 under former head coach Eric Musselman at Bud Walton Arena. That game marked the first time the two teams had met in 28 years. Arkansas hasn’t lost to TCU since February 1990.

The Hogs hold a 105-38 lead over the Frogs throughout, including a 46-21 record against games played at TCU.

The Horned Frogs have appeared in the NCAA tournaments each of the past three years, but have not advanced beyond the Round of 32 in any of those seasons.

Friday’s game will mark only the 14th time Arkansas has played an exhibition game outside of Fayetteville and the third time the Razorbacks have played out of state for an exhibition game. Proceeds from the game will be donated to the Cook Children’s Health Foundation in Fort Worth.