Opportunity awaits TCU when it hosts No. 5 Iowa State in a Big 12 Conference contest on Tuesday at Fort Worth, Texas.

TCU (14-9, 4-6 Big 12) picked up an 84-82 home win over Kansas State on Saturday behind a career-high 26 points from Xavier Edmonds. The Horned Frogs overcame a five-point deficit in the final minute. The junior made 9 of 10 field-goal attempts, shot 7 of 10 from the free throw line and pulled down 10 rebounds. He has posted a double-double in five straight games.

Without a weekday game last week, the Horned Frogs picked up some rest and had enough in the tank to rally from an 18-point deficit for the victory. But the wait was long after consecutive defeats.

“That was terrible, Micah (Robinson) and I talked about that,” Edmonds said about the weekday bye. “We said we have a long week of break. We have to make sure we take care of business and feel good going into the break, or it would feel like a month off. It felt like it was about two months.”

Iowa State (21-1, 8-2) built a sizable second-half lead and shook off determined Baylor 72-69 on Saturday. The Cyclones struggled to close the door on the Bears, who ripped off the final 11 points of the game before time expired.

Cyclones guard Tamin Lipsey had his usual stat-sheet stuffing performance. He scored 14 points, pulled down nine rebounds, handed out three assists and had two steals. Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger noted that the veteran point guard sets a high standard for the entire team.

When Lipsey turned up his defensive effort on the perimeter in the second half, Baylor went from shooting 42.9% from 3-point range to just 29.4% after the break.

“Tamin just lays it on the line,” Otzelberger said. “It felt like there were two of him out there on some possessions against Baylor. The plays that he is making, the steals that he is getting, the rebounds he is chasing down … there’s a physicality about how he does everything. He lays it all on the line and he’s done that for the program for four years. His 33 minutes (against Baylor) might be like 50 minutes for someone else because of how hard he plays.”

Because they have a resume littered with dubious losses, most recently an 87-61 blowout loss at Colorado on Feb. 1, TCU coach Jamie Dixon said the Horned Frogs have to make the most of their chance to pick off a top-ranked opponent when they face the Cyclones.

The Horned Frogs are No. 53 in the NCAA NET and 3-6 in Quad 1 games.

“We have to get ready for Iowa State,” Dixon said. “We know we are on the bubble. A loss against Kansas State would have killed us. We are still there. We have to do some things to get better, play better and I know we can.”

–Field Level Media

Indiana Pacers forward Johnny Furphy is expected to miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, multiple outlets reported Monday.

Furphy injured his right knee on an awkward landing following a dunk in the third quarter of Sunday’s 122-104 loss to the host Toronto Raptors. He was helped off the court before he went to the locker room in a wheelchair.

The native Australian reportedly underwent MRI testing Monday which revealed the extent of his injury. The typical timeline for recovery from a torn ACL is 6-12 months, meaning Furphy’s absence could extend into next season.

In his second year in the league after being drafted by the Pacers in the second round in 2024, Furphy started 21 of his 35 regular-season appearances.

He averaged 5.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 18.4 minutes per game this season after he averaged 2.1 points per game last season in 50 games off the bench.

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Caroline Harvey and Joy Dunne each collected a goal and two assists and Gwyneth Philips made 20 saves, fueling the United States to a 5-0 victory over Switzerland on Monday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Alex Carpenter scored for the third time in as many games and added an assist for the Americans (3-0-0), who have outscored the Group A competition by a 15-1 margin in the preliminary round.

The U.S. will look for revenge against Canada on Tuesday in a rematch of the gold-medal game from the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Haley Winn and Hannah Bilka each scored a goal and team captain Hilary Knight notched two assists to boost her Olympic total to 31 points, one shy of tying Jenny Potter as the all-time U.S. leader.

Ava McNaughton relieved Philips late in the third period and made one save.

Andrea Braendli turned aside 45 shots for Switzerland (1-2-0), which has dropped two straight following a 4-3 shootout win over Czechia on Friday.

Braendli denied Taylor Heise on a breakaway early in the first period before the Americans solved her at 6:04 of the session.

Harvey skated in from the left-wing wall and wired a centering feed that Winn directed home from the doorstep.

Dunne doubled the advantage with 5:52 remaining in the second period after a brilliant individual effort.

Dunne forechecked a Swiss defender off the puck in the corner before backhanding a shot that caromed off a skate and into the net for an unassisted goal.

Bilka accepted a feed from Heise in front of the net and swept the puck past Braendli to give the Americans a 3-0 lead at 1:17 of the third period.

Carpenter converted a breakaway before Harvey used a brilliant deke on Braendli to cap the scoring.

–Field Level Media