Senior guard Greg Hill scored a game-high 18 points Wednesday to lead TCU to a 70-61 victory over eighth-seeded Wyoming in the opening round of the 2011 Conoco Mountain West Conference Championship at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The victory, the Horned Frogs’ first since a Jan. 12 home win over the Cowboys, snapped a 13-game losing streak. The squad improved to 11-21 overall this season, while Wyoming dropped to 10-21.
TCU, the bracket’s No. 9 seed, built a double-digit first-half lead that turned into a one-point Wyoming edge midway through the second half. A layup by Cowboy guard Joe Hudson following a Frog turnover gave the squad a 42-41 lead with 13:26 remaining, but the Frogs responded with a 9-0 run and never looked back. Hill hit one of his three second-half 3-pointers to put TCU back on top for good.
Hill’s 18 points came on a 6-of-11 showing from the floor, including 4-of-5 from 3-point range. His performance came on the heels of a career-high 23-point effort in the regular-season finale at Air Force.
Junior guard Hank Thorns, who played all 40 minutes for the seventh time in 10 games, totaled
