Preview: vs. Virginia

Saturday, March 28

Sacramento, Calif.

6:30 PM

TCU

Virginia

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No. 3 seed TCU takes on Cavaliers in Sacramento in NCAA Sweet 16

FORT WORTH – The third-seeded TCU Horned Frogs are set to challenge No. 10 seed Virginia in the NCAA Sweet 16 at 6:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.

TCU is in search of its second consecutive Elite Eight appearance and in school history. The Horned Frogs are again the last team standing from the Big 12 Conference. TCU arrives in the Bear Flag Republic as winners of 10 of its last 11 ballgames, most recently rallying from 10 points down for a 62-59 overtime victory over No. 6 seed Washington on Sunday.

To reach the quarterfinals of the Big Dance, the Horned Frogs will have to spoil the Cinderella story of March Madness. Virginia is the lowest-seeded team to reach the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 2022. The Cavaliers knocked off No. 2 seed Iowa in double overtime on Monday, becoming the first team to advance to the Sweet 16 after playing in the First Four.

Preceding the clash between the Frogs and Cavaliers in the Sacramento 4 Regional is an all-SEC affair between top-seeded South Carolina and No. 4 seed Oklahoma. The winners play at 6 p.m. on Monday for a ticket to the Final Four.

The Game
Teams: #14 TCU (31-5 15-3 Big 12) vs. Virginia (22-11, 11-7 ACC)
Date: 6:30 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 28
Location: Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California

Game Coverage
Television
ESPN

Courtney Lyle, Play-by-Play
Stephanie White, Analyst

Radio
KTCU 88.7 FM

Chris Blake, Play-by-Play

Westwood One Sports

Sam Niedermann, Play-by-Play
Debbie Antonelli, Analyst

Opening Tip

TCU has notched back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances after having never reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament prior to last season.
The Horned Frogs are one of 10 remaining teams that reached the Sweet 16 in both 2024-25 and 2025-26.
TCU and Virginia both are in the Sweet 16 after finishing in last place in the Big 12 and ACC, respectively, four seasons ago.
The Horned Frogs and Cavaliers are colliding on the hardwood for only the second time. TCU and Virginia first squared off on Nov. 27, 2010 in the Paradise Jam, with the Cavaliers earning a 59-55 victory.
TCU is 5-0 vs. the ACC under head coach Mark Campbell, having bounced Notre Dame and Louisville from the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Frog Focus

TCU is the only team remaining in the NCAA Tournament that finished in last place in conference play in back-to-back seasons within the last five years.
The Horned Frogs are the only repeat undisputed Power Conference regular season champions in college basketball.
Under head coach Mark Campell, TCU has quickly rebranded itself as a brand name in the sport. With its opening round victory over UC San Diego on March 20, the Horned Frogs joined 2025 NCAA Final Four participants UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina as the only Power Conference programs to post consecutive 30-win campaigns.
Behind Campbell, TCU has tallied the seventh-most victories (86) of any Division I program and notched 20 AP Top 10 rankings over the last three seasons. In the three season preceding his arrival in Funky Town, TCU competed to a 24-60 overall record and went entirely unranked.
Campbell's win-loss percentage since 2023-24 (.804) ranks ninth among all head coaches and sixth at the Power Conference level
Strictly looking at the last two seasons, TCU ranks fifth among all Division I programs in wins (65) and win-loss percentage (.878).
In his introductory press conference on March 23, 2023, Campbell made a promise to Jeremiah Donati, TCU's athletic director at the time, that he would transform TCU into the top basketball program in the Big 12 and one of the best in the country. Within two seasons of his hire, Campbell led TCU to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2010 and the university's first Big 12 basketball championships. The Horned Frogs swept the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in 2024-25 and went on to reach the Elite Eight, becoming the first TCU basketball team to win multiple games in March Madness.
Campbell has quickly developed a championship pedigree. He has won five conference titles in as many seasons as a head coach.
Though TCU will play its Sweet 16 game more than 1,700 miles from campus in Fort Worth, the Horned Frogs may well be the adopted home team in Sacramento. Campbell served as the head coach at Sacramento State for two seasons from 2021-23. Just as he did at TCU, Campbell led the institution to its first conference regular season and tournament championships and its first NCAA Tournament appearance in men's or women's basketball in his second-and-final season at the helm.
Speaking of Campbell, he is one of only five coaches in the NCAA Tournament field that has spent five years or less as a head coach and notched at least three berths in the Big Dance. The others are Kim Caldwell (Tennessee), Nicki Collen (Baylor), Shea Ralph (Vanderbilt) and Carly Thibault (Fairfield).
Playing for Campbell, especially as his starting point guard, might as well be a cheat code for claiming conference player of the year honors at this point. TCU's Olivia Miles was crowned Big 12 Player of the Year and is the fourth one-and-done transfer point guard to be named a league's top player in Campbell's five seasons as a head coach. Hailey Van Lith was tabbed the Big 12's best in 2024-25 while Sacramento State's Lianna Tillman and Kahlaijah Dean won Big Sky Player of the Year in 2022 and 2023. All four players averaged better than 17 points and five assists per game in Campbell's offense.
Miles was also a unanimous choice for Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. TCU has swept Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year in consecutive seasons. No program has won both awards in back-to-back years.
Five of TCU's eight All-Big 12 first team honorees have come under Campbell's tutelage in the last calendar year. Marta Suarez joined Miles as a unanimous choice on the all-conference first team mantle. Van Lith, Sedona Prince and Madison Conner all garnered first team accolades in 2024-25.
With Miles and Suarez's selections as All-Americans by The Associated Press, four of the seven All-Americans in program history have been recruited and developed by Campbell.
TCU and top-ranked UConn are the only teams in college basketball shooting at least 47 percent from the field and 35 percent from downtown while averaging nine 3-pointers per game.
The Horned Frogs have knocked down at least nine 3-pointers in half of their games (18-36) this season and on 40 occasions since 2024-25. TCU is 39-1 when knocking down at least nine deep balls.
TCU has averaged 10 threes per game at home (599 total) over the last three seasons.
TCU needs 11 threes to become only the eighth program to make 1,000 over a three-season span.
The Horned Frogs top the Power Conference ranks in total 3-pointers over the last three seasons (989)by a sizeable margin. The next closest Power Conference team to matching TCU's 3-point output is Utah at 934 threes. After that, it's Iowa with 901.
TCU's 323 threes this season are the sixth-most of any team.
•Since 2023-24 only Richmond (1,000) has connected from distance more times than TCU. The Horned Frogs are one of only two programs ranking in the top-10 nationally since 2023-24 in 3-point field goals (2nd, 989), 3-point field goals per game (6th, 9.3) and 3-point percentage (7th, .366).
TCU is the only team in the country with four players who have each made 55 threes in Suarez (79), Olivia Miles (69), Taylor Bigby (61) and Donovyn Hunter (59).
Those four players are responsible for 82 percent (265-323) of TCU's 3-point offense.
TCU boasts the fifth highest-scoring starting lineup in college basketball, as Miles, Suarez, Hunter, Bigby and Clara Silva average a combined 64.2 points per game. Only South Carolina (70.6 ppg), Oklahoma 68.5 ppg), UCLA (67.6 ppg) and Notre Dame (67.9 ppg) have higher-scoring starting fives.
Bigby and Silva have both scored in double figures and are averaging 35.5 combined points per game in TCU's pair of NCAA Tournament victories. In TCU's five defeats, the two players and Hunter have been limited to 21.8 points per game.
Miles (19.4 ppg) and Suarez (16.8 pg) are the country's fifth-highest scoring duo and one of only three pairs of teammates among NCAA Tournament teams averaging at least 16.5 points per game.
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 and Suarez are the only pair of teammates in college basketball with at least 600 points and 200 rebounds to their names.
Either player has finished with a double-double or a triple-double in 16 ballgames.
TCU has benefitted from a 20-point performance by Miles, Suarez or hunter in 23 instances.
The Horned Frogs continue to lead the country in field goal percentage defense (.334).
Three-quarters of the Power Conference teams TCU has faced (18-24) have shot under 40 percent from the field vs. the Frogs' defense.
TCU has limited an NCAA-leading 15 teams below 30 percent shooting.
The Frogs have held 11 opponents to their lowest scoring outputs of the season.
Washington became the 23rd opponent TCU has held under 60 points in the 2025-26 campaign in Sunday's overtime victory. The Frogs are unbeaten when their opponent fails to break the threshold.
TCU, UConn and Texas are the only teams in the nation scoring at least 75 points per game while holding opponents to 56 points per game or less.
TCU and South Carolina are the only squads in the country shooting at least 47 percent from the floor and holding opponents below a 35 percent clip.
TCU has limited opponents to 50 points or less in 15 games, the second-most of any team in the nation. Only UConn has prevented its opponent from exceeding 50 points more times than TCU (19).
TCU allowed just 60.3 points per game in Big 12 action, the third-fewest among all Power Conference teams in league affairs. Duke (56.1 ppg) and UCLA (59 ppg) were the only teams with better scoring defenses than the Horned Frogs in conference play.
The Horned Frogs' length and rim protection has given opponents fits at the defensive end all year. TCU is the tallest team in the country, with an average height of 6'2 1/2". Eight of TCU's 14 players stand 6-2 or taller while 11 are at least 6-0.
Silva (1.8 bpg) and Kennedy Basham (1.7 bpg) are arguably the top shot-blocking duo in the country. They rank second and third among all Big 12 players in blocks per game and are the only pair of teammates in college basketball who have each recorded 50 blocks this season.
Either Basham or Silva has finished with three-or-more blocks in 17 games.
TCU's 46 games with at least six blocks are the sixth-most of any D1 team over the last three seasons. Only South Carolina (66), USC (55), Kentucky (50), Virginia (48) and Duke (47) have more six-block performances in that span. The Horned Frogs have sent back at least six shots in 16 games in 2025-26.
The Frogs have recorded the third-most blocks of any team nationwide since 2023-24 with 570.
TCU has shot at least 43 percent from the floor in 25 of its wins. Conversely, only eight opposing teams have connected above a 36 percent clip from the field in any game.
Last season, TCU led at halftime in 34 games, a rate that ranked second only to eventual national champion UConn. The Horned Frogs consistently find themselves atop the scoreboard at the intermission, still, having assumed a halftime edge in 25 games in the 205-26 campaign. Recently, though, the opposite has proven true. TCU has found itself down at the half in three of its last four ballgames and six of its last 10 dating back to its 59-50 home triumph over West Virginia. Despite the unfamiliar territory, the Horned Frogs routinely rally. TCU is 6-1 this season when trailing at the break.
TCU is 4-1 this season and 13-5 overall under Campbell in neutral site affairs.

Individual Notables
Olivia Miles

Is responsible for one-quarter of all triple-doubles recorded in NCAA D1 (6-of-24) in 2025-26.
Recorded her sixth career triple-double the last time she faced Virginia om Dec. 29, 2024; finished with 14 assists, 11 points and 10 rebounds to lead Notre Dame to a 95-54 victory.
For her career, has averaged 11.5 points, 8.4 assists and 7.3 rebounds per game in the NCAA Tournament.
Has dished out eight-plus assists in five of her eight career outings in the Big Dance.
Racked up a combined 30 points, 26 rebounds and 22 assists in TCU's opening weekend wins over UC San Diego and Washington, marking the first 30-20-20 two-game run in the NCAA Tournament since Nicole Powell did so at Stanford in 2002.
Joined Powell and Sabrina Ionescu as one of only three players in NCAA history to record multiple triple-doubles in the NCAA Tournament.
Finished with 16 rebounds, 14 assists and 12 points vs. the Tritons, breaking TCU's all-time single-game assists record and NCAA Tournament single-game rebounding record.
Became the first player to put at least 14 rebounds and 14 assists on the board in an NCAA Tournament game.
Is the only player in NCAA history who has tallied at least 2,100 career points, 875 assists, 850 rebounds and 225 steals.
Enters Saturday's ballgame needing two points to reach 700 and two assists to net 240 for the season; will join Ionescu (Oregon, 2017-19), Caitlin Clark (Iowa, 2021-24), Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga, 2010-11) and Katie Dinnebier (Drake, 2024-25) as one of five players in NCAA history to post the cumulative stat line in a season.
Leads all Division I players in season and career triple-doubles (12), career 15-point, 5-assist games (54) and career assist per game average (6.5) and all Division I guards in career double-doubles (36).

Marta Suarez

Powered home a 16-point, 10-rebound double-double vs. Virginia in her most recent encounter with the Cavaliers on March 6, 2025 in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament, pacing Cal in a 75-58 win.
Is one of only 12 players in the country averaging at least 16.5 points, seven rebounds and two assists per game while shooting 45 percent or better from the field.
Averaging career-highs in points per game (16.8), rebounds per game (7.4), field goal percentage (.459) and 3-point percentage (.373).
One of 13 players alongside Miles who has recorded at least 600 points and 250 rebounds in 2025-26.
Has racked up the fifth-most points in a season by a TCU player.
Has finished with at least 15 points and five rebounds in 20 games.
Has drilled the most 3-pointers ever in a season by a Big 12 forward (79).
Ranks sixth in the country among players 6-3-or-taller in 3-point percentage
Has connected at least three times from distance in 15 contests.
Scored in double figures in 14 straight games from Feb. 1 through TCU's first round victory over UC San Diego on March 20
Has finished as TCU's leading scorer in seven of its last 10 games.
Averaging a team-leading 19.5 points per game across TCU's last 13 contests, leading the Frogs to an 11-2 record in that stretch.

Taylor Bigby

Has notched her two highest scoring outputs of the season in the Horned Frogs' pair of wins in the Big Dance; finished with a TCU NCAA Tournament single-game record 27 points vs. UC San Diego and tallied 15 against the Huskies two nights later.
Averaging a career high 11.7 points per game across her last 10 starts.
Notched her 20th career game with at least three 3-pointers in Sunday's victory; has knocked down 10 deep balls thus far in March Madness.
Shooting 55 percent from the field and 52 percent behind the arc across 11 career NCAA Tournament games.

Donovyn Hunter

Two-time All-Defensive team honoree; earned Big 12 All-Defensive team honors in March and was tabbed to the Pac-12 All-defensive team in 2024 as a freshman at Oregon State.
Has reached the Elite Eight in both of her completed seasons; was the starting point guard as a freshman for a 2024-25 Oregon State squad that advanced to the quarterfinals.
Playing a career high 33.6 minutes per game.
Has nearly doubled her scoring average from the previous season; averaging 10.6 points per night compared to 5.8 in 2024-25.
Has in double figures in 19 games this season after tallying 10-plus in 19 games combined across her freshman and sophomore campaigns.
Sports a career 2-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.

Clara Silva

Was dubbed the "MVP of the game" by head coach Mark Campbell after the Frogs' 62-59 overtime win over Washington on Sunday; twice hit the go-ahead bucket on her way to finishing with 16 points and eight rebounds.
Averaging 14.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and three blocks per game thus far in the NCAA Tournament.
One of 14 players in college basketball and one of five underclassmen averaging at least nine points, seven rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game while shooting 55 percent from the floor.
Nineteen games with at least nine rebounds.

A Win Over the Cavaliers Would…

Guarantee TCU will be one of five teams or fewer to reach the Elite Eight in both the 2025 and 2026 NCAA Tournaments.
Make TCU one of only two programs in the history of the Big 12 alongside Baylor to win at least 32 games in consecutive seasons.
Spike TCU's record vs. the ACC to 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the NCAA Tournament since 2023-24.
Count as the 25th postseason win in program history when including the WBIT and WNIT.
Boost TCU's all-time NCAA Tournament record to 11-10.
Give TCU an 8-1 record in the Big Dance as the higher-seeded team.
Send the Horned Frogs to their first victory in the Bear Flag Republic since a 72-69 win over St. Mary's on Nov. 26 in Moraga, Calif. during the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic.
Improve TCU's record under Campbell in games played following a break of at least six days to 15-1 overall and 5-0 in postseason affairs.

Series Notes: Virginia

TCU and Virginia's only meeting on the hardwood took place in the U.S. Virgin Islands during the 2010 edition of the Paradise Jam. The Horned Frogs were tabbed No. 21 in The Associated Press poll at tipoff time. The game featured 16 lead changes and 10 ties. Three Horned Frogs scored in double figures, led by 14 points from Emily Carter.
Among active TCU players, Olivia Miles and Marta Suarez have faced the Cavaliers. Miles is averaging 11.5 points, 10.5 assists and seven rebounds vs. Virginia while Suarez sports a stat line of 11.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists.
Miles became the first ACC player to post a triple-double in consecutive games with her 14-assist, 11-point and 10-rebound performance against the Cavaliers on Dec. 29, 2024.
Both TCU and Virginia reached the second round of the Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament (WBIT) in 2023-24.
The Horned Frogs and Cavaliers share a common opponent in NC State, which bowed out of the NCAA Tournament in the round of 32. TCU defeated NC State 69-59 on Nov. 16 in Raleigh while Virgina fell victim to a 78-76 overtime victory at the hands of the Wolfpack on Jan. 24 in Charlottesville.
Miles and Virginia guard Kymora Johnson are two of only three players in college basketball averaging at least 19 points, 5.5 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.