Preview: Iowa State

Sunday, February 22

Fort Worth, Texas

3 PM

TCU

Iowa State

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2/20/2026 1:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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12th-ranked TCU faces Cyclones in highly anticipated home showdown

FORT WORTH – TCU is closing in on repeating as Big 12 regular season champions but has a final test to pass in the form of Iowa State.

The Horned Frogs host the Cyclones at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Schollmaier Arena in a game that will air on ESPN.

The matchup puts the Big 12's highest ranked team – No. 12 TCU – opposite the league's top-rated team in the preseason Associated Press Poll. Iowa State began the year tabbed 14^th while both teams have ascended as high as ninth in the AP Top 25.

The Game
Teams: #12 TCU (24-4 12-3 Big 12) vs. Iowa State (21-6, 9-6 Big 12)
Date: 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 22
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas

Game Coverage
Television
ESPN

Eric Frede, Play-by-Play
Christy Thomaskutty, Analyst

Radio
KTCU 88.7 FM

Chris Blake, Play-by-Play

Opening Tip

TCU is two wins away from winning its second straight Big 12 championship.
The Horned Frogs are aiming to become the first team in league history to win back-to-back Big 12 titles within three seasons of finishing in last place.
TCU will overtake No. 4 Texas for the longest home winning streak in college basketball at 41 games with a victory on Sunday.
Across the Frogs' unbeaten run at home, 80 percent of their wins (32) have been by double digits.
TCU is allowing just 53.8 points per game at home under head coach Mark Campbell.
TCU has held nine-of-16 visiting teams to 50 points or less.
More than three years have passed since the Cyclones last visited Fort Worth. TCU and Iowa State last played inside Schollmaier Arena on Jan. 25, 2023.

Frog Focus

TCU will post back-to-back 25-win seasons for the first time in the history of TCU men's and women's basketball with its next victory.
TCU will tie for the second-most wins in a single season in program history should the Horned Frogs defeat the Cyclones.
Sunday's game is notable in that it will be Mark Campbell's 100th as the Horned Frogs' head coach. Since his hire ahead of the 2023-24 season, Campbell has tallied the sixth-most wins (79) of any head coach across the Division I ranks.
TCU ranks fifth among all D1 programs in winning percentage (.879) and total wins (58) since 2024-25.
TCU continues to be the Big 12's highest-rated team in the AP Top 25, USA Today Sports Coaches Poll (No. 11) and NCAA NET rankings (No. 11).
TCU received the No. 12 overall seed in the NCAA Selection Committee's first top 16 reveal.
The clash between the Horned Frogs and Cyclones reunites Olivia Miles and Audi Crooks, who developed a friendship while competing for USA Basketball at the FIBA AmeriCup this summer. Miles and Crooks led the United States to a gold medal.
The game also pits the leading candidates for conference player of the year honors opposite one another in Miles and Crooks. Miles, the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year, is the only player in the country averaging 20 points, six assists, six rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. Crooks, who was tabbed the league's Preseason Player of the Year, is the lone Big 12 player who has scored more points than Miles, tallying 661 to Miles' 563. Crooks and Miles rank second and 13th, respectively, in the country in total points.
Iowa State and TCU are the two most efficient offenses in the Big 12. They rank first and second, respectively, in assists per game and assist-to-turnover ratio.
TCU has limited opponents to 50 points or less in 13 games, the second-most of any team in the country. Only No. 1 UConn has prevented its opponent from eclipsing 50 points more times than TCU (14 games).
The Horned Frogs have held an NCAA-leading 13 teams below 30 percent shooting.
TCU has held 84 percent of its opponents under their season scoring average in the Campbell era, including 24-28 this season. In last season's 82-69 win at Iowa State, the Horned Frogs kept Iowa State seven points below its points per game clip.
The Frogs have limited nine opponents to their lowest scoring outputs of the season, including five in Big 12 play; BYU, Arizona State, Houston and No. 19 West Virginia (2x).
TCU and UConn are the only teams in the nation scoring at least 75 points per game while holding opponents to 55 points per game or less.
TCU again leads college basketball in field goal percentage defense (.334) after holding Houston to just 23 percent shooting (14-60) in Wednesday's road win.
TCU is one of four teams in the country alongside UConn, South Carolina and LSU ranking in the top 10 in both field goal percentage defense and field goal percentage (10th, .482).
TCU is allowing just 59.3 points per game in Big 12 action, the third-fewest among all Power Conference teams in conference affairs. Only Duke (54.6 ppg) and UCLA (58.4 ppg) have better scoring defenses than the Horned Frogs in league play.
Fort Worth is home to the Big 12's highest-scoring duo in Olivia Miles and Marta Suarez, who average a combined 36.5 points per game.
Miles (20.1 ppg), Suarez (16.4 ppg) and Donovyn Hunter (11.8 ppg) are the nation's fifth highest-scoring teammate trifecta at 48.3 points per game.
Miles and Suarez scored a combined 67 points at No. 12 Baylor on Feb. 12 - the most by a pair of teammates in a Big 12 game opposite a ranked opponent in league history.
Miles and Suarez have both tallied at least 20 points and five rebounds in the same game on seven occasions, more than any pair of teammates in college basketball.
Miles and Suarez are also one the only duo nationwide averaging at least 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and two assists per game.
Miles, Suarez and Hunter are one of just two trios in college basketball averaging at least 12 points per game while shooting better than 45 percent from the field and 75 percent at the foul line. The only other teammate threesome matching the statistical criteria is UCLA's Gabriela Jaquez, Gianna Kneepkens and Kiki Rice.
Miles, Suarez and Hunter have put at least 50 points on the board for TCU 13 times, leading TCU to an 11-2 record in those games
Either Miles or Suarez has led TCU in scoring in 23 games and in 14-of-15 in Big 12 play.
TCU has benefitted from a 20-point performance by Miles, Suarez or Hunter in 19 games.
Miles, Hunter and Suarez are one of just two teammate triads and the lone threesome at the Power Conference level who have each made 50 threes. The other is Fairfield's Meghan Andersen, Jillian Huerter, Kaety L'Amoreaux.
Bringing Taylor Bigby into the fold, TCU is one of seven teams with four players who have all made at least 35 threes. Suarez (59), Miles (56), Hunter (52) and Bigby (38) are responsible for 78 percent (202-258) of TCU's 3-point offense.
TCU has averaged 10 threes per game at home over the last three seasons. The Horned Frogs have reached double figures in deep balls in 47 percent of their home games (27-57) since 2023-24.
TCU needs 76 threes to become only the eighth program to make 1,000 over a three-season span.
TCU registered at least six blocks in a conference game for the 16th time in the last three seasons on Wednesday at Houston. The Horned Frogs have sent back at least six shots in 43 games since 2023-24, the fifth-most of any team in that span.
The Horned Frogs have recorded the third-most blocks (528) in college basketball over the last three seasons. Only South Carolina (687) and USC (596) have more.
Clara Silva (1.8 bpg) and Kennedy Basham (1.5 bpg) give TCU the luxury of being one of only three teams with two players averaging at least 1.5 blocks per game. The others are Baylor and Lipscomb.

Individual Notables
Olivia Miles

Is seven points away from tallying 2,000 for her career; will become only the sixth active D1 player to tick the box and one of only four players in NCAA history with at least 2,000 career points, 800 assists and 700 rebounds. The others are Sabrina Ionescu, Caitlin Clark and Niesa Johnson (Alabama, 1991-95).
Already ranks second and sixth, respectively, on TCU's single season records lists for assists (182) and points (563); needs only 23 assists to break Hailey Van Lith's 2024-25 program record.
Ranks third among all Big 12 players and sits 17th nationally in scoring average at 20.1 points per game; has increased her scoring average to 21.5 points per game in league play.
Has scored 20-plus in 11 of her last 15 games and led TCU in scoring in each of its first 13 Big 12 bouts.
On pace to become only the second player in NCAA history alongside Andrea Kabwasa (New Mexico State, 1991-92) to average 20 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting better than 50 percent from the floor.
Has finished with at least 15 points and five assists 21 times this season and in seven of her last 12 Big 12 games; leads all active players and ranks 13th in NCAA history with 51 career '15-and-5' games.
Ranks sixth and eighth, respectively, in all of D1 in assists (182) and assists per game (6.5).
Leads all Division I guards in career double-doubles (32) and all active Division I players in career assists per game average (6.6), triple-doubles (10) and '15-5-5' games (38).
Tabbed AP National Player of the Week, USBWA National Player of the Week and Big 12 Player of the Week on Tuesday; selected as Big 12 Player of the Week for a league-leading fourth time.
Is the only player in college basketball in 2025-26 to record multiple triple-doubles and score 40 points in a game vs. a ranked team.

Marta Suarez

Averaging 20.2 points per game over her last six starts.
Has finished with at least 15 points and five rebounds in half of her outings (14-of-28).
Posted her 10th twenty-point game of the year at Houston; led all players with 21 points and nine boards.
Has scored in double figures in eight straight games.
One of only 16 players nationwide averaging at least 16 points, 6.5 rebounds and two assists per game while connecting above a 45 percent clip from the field.
Has drained the third-most 3-pointers in a season by a Big 12 player standing at least 6-3 with 59.

Donovyn Hunter

Averaging 12.9 points per game at home.
Shooting 55 percent from the floor over her last eight games and is connecting at a 49 percent clip for the season.
Has more than doubled her scoring average from her sophomore season; averaging 11.8 points per game in 2025-26 compared to 5.8 last year.
Has posted an assist-to-turnover ratio of at least 3-1 in nine games.

Clara Silva

Has scored in double figures in 10 of her last 18 starts; led TCU with 14 points and eight rebounds vs. No. 19 West Virginia on Feb. 15.
One of only three players in college basketball and the lone underclassmen averaging at least 9.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game while shooting 55 percent from the floor.
Seventeen games with at least eight rebounds.

A Win over the Cyclones Would…

Put the Horned Frogs within one victory of clinching a share of their second straight Big 12 championship and potentially, the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Tournament, should No. 20 Texas Tech lose at either Colorado or Kansas on Saturday and Wednesday, respectively.
Guarantee TCU a top-four seed and double bye in the Big 12 Tournament.
Give TCU a chance to run the table at home in the regular season for the third time in program history when it hosts No. 16 Baylor on March 1. The 2009-10 and 2024-25 Horned Frog women's basketball teams also achieved the feat.
Tie the 2019-20 TCU women's basketball team for the second most Big 12 wins in a season.
Send TCU to its second 4-game winning streak in Big 12 play this year.
Mark only the fifth time the Horned Frogs have won 13 conference games. TCU tallied a baker's dozen wins in league play in 2007-08, 2010-11, 2019-20 and 2024-25.
Send TCU to its first win over Iowa State in Fort Worth since 2020.

Series Notes: Iowa State

TCU's largest come-from-behind victory in program history came at Iowa State's expense. The Horned Frogs erased a 24-point deficit in an 86-84 victory over the Cyclones on Jan. 7, 2015 at the TCU University Recreation Center, the Frogs' temporary home while Schollmaier Arena underwent renovations. TCU trailed 51-27 with 16:21 remaining in the second half. The Frogs also set a program record for largest halftime deficit overcome (23) and most second half points scored in a Big 12 game (65).
Hailey Van Lith scored 28 points and TCU outscored the Cyclones 45-33 in the second half of last season's 82-69 win in Ames.
ISU won the initial meeting between the two teams, an 88-60 victory over the Horned Frogs back on Dec. 30, 1986, in Ames.
TCU and ISU's only neutral court meeting came back in 2010, when the two teams faced off in the Paradise Jam. The Cyclones won the contest 64-59.