11/12/2026 7:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Indiana State transfer is eligible to play at TCU
FORT WORTH – TCU head coach Jamie Dixon announced the signing of Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, Robbie Avila to this year's team.
The 6-10 center, who played his first two seasons at Indiana State and the last two seasons at Saint Louis, is immediately eligible to play this season.
In his four years of college basketball, Avila has totaled 1,990 points, 473 assists and 214 3-pointers. He is one of three centers in NCAA history with 200 or more 3-pointers. Over the past two seasons, Avila has led all NCAA Division I centers in assists and 3-pointers per game.
Last season, Avila led the Billikens to a school-record 29 wins, an Atlantic 10 regular season co-championship and the second round of the NCAA Championship. He averaged 12.8 points and 4.5 rebounds, but the most impressive was his 4.1 assists per game and 1.9 made 3-pointers per game. Avila was a candidate for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, the Naismith Trophy, the Oscar Robertson Trophy and the Wooden Award. Â
As a junior at Saint Louis, Avila averaged 17.3 points, 6.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.8 made 3-pointers per game to earn second team all-conference honors. He finished fifth in the A-10 in scoring, eighth in assists per game and fifth in field goal percentage at 49.2 percent. Avila was one of five players in NCAA DI with at least 17.3 points, 6.9 rebounds and 4.0 assists. He was a top 10 candidate for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year and was on the Watch Lists for the Naismith Trophy, Wooden Award and Lute Olson Award.
While at Indiana State, Avila was named All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team and to the MVC Championship All-Tournament Team. He improved in all, but one category from his freshman year, averaging a team-best 17.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game while leading the Sycamores to a share of the regular-season MVC title. Avila's 644 points were the ninth-most in a season for Indiana State.
The sixth-best player to come out of the state of Illinois in 2022, Avila was named to the MVC All-Freshman Team in his first season at Indiana State after averaging 10.7 points per game.
