Mark Campbell - Women's Basketball
Mark Campbell
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- MARK.CAMPBELL@tcu.edu
From the moment he was hired, Mark Campbell has restored TCU women's basketball to national relevance.
Campbell was named the eighth head women’s basketball coach in TCU athletics history on March 21, 2023, and success has followed at every turn. Ahead of his fourth season at the helm, Campbell has led TCU to three Big 12 championships, including consecutive undisputed regular season titles in 2024-25 and 2025-26, back-to-back Elite Eight appearances and two straight 30-win seasons. The Horned Frogs have won the sixth-most games of any team in college basketball (87) and notched 20 AP Top 10 rankings since 2023. In the last two seasons alone, Campbell has coached five WNBA Draft picks, four All-Americans and two Big 12 Players of the Year. Six of his players have earned all-conference accolades.
The 2025 Big 12 Coach of the Year, Campbell enters the 2026-27 campaign as one of only two active head coaches to post two 30-win seasons within his or her first three seasons at the Power Conference level. His career winning percentage as TCU’s head coach (.798) is the fifth-highest of any Power Conference head coach since 2023, trailing only Dawn Staley (.932), Cori Close (.899), Vic Schaefer (.888) and Kim Mulkey (.835).
Across his two decades in the industry, Campbell has recruited and coached 18 WNBA or NBA Draft selections, a group that includes 2026 WNBA Rookie of the Year Olivia Miles and 2024 Olympian Hailey Van Lith. Of equal note, nine of Campbell's former players competed in the Paris Games, including Sabrina Ionescu and Van Lith, who respectively won gold and bronze medals for Team USA in 5-on-5 and 3x3. In five years as a head coach, four of Campbell's point guards have claimed conference player of the year honors; Van Lith Miles (TCU, 2026), (TCU, 2025), Kahlaijah Dean (Sac State, 2023) and Lianna Tillman (Sac State, 2022). Campbell has coached 11 All-American players in his career, four of whom suited up for the Horned Frogs.
Before touching down in the Lone Star State, Campbell served two seasons as head coach at Sacramento State from 2021-23, guiding the Hornets to their first-ever Big Sky regular season and tournament championships and first NCAA Tournament berth in his final year. Campbell came to northern California following a seven-year assistant coaching tenure at Oregon, where he became widely regarded as the nation’s best recruiter. While in Eugene, Campbell was responsible for the recruitment of three top-10 picks in the 2020 WNBA Draft in Ionescu (No. 1), Satou Sabally (No. 2) and current TCU assistant coach Ruthy Hebard (No. 8). He also assembled the No. 1 overall recruiting class in 2020, a group that included five players who were both consensus top-25 talents and McDonald's All-Americans.
Career Coaching Highlights
The 2024-25 season punctuated the greatest turnaround in college basketball of the 2020s. With Campbell at the helm, TCU has enjoyed the greatest turnaround in college basketball ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. Campbell facilitated a combined 26-game year-over win improvement - the largest of any program nationwide - over his first two seasons in Funky town. TCU and Campbell's run to an undisputed Big 12 regular season championship saw the program become one of only two in conference history to capture a league title within two seasons of finishing in last place. Campbell augmented TCU's year-over conference win tally by 12 games in 2024-25, good for the largest single-season increase in college basketball and largest year-over-year conference regular season win percentage improvement (.556) at the Power Conference level.
Together, Campbell and the Horned Frogs have shattered nearly every major school record in his tenure, including single-season marks for total wins (34), home wins (21), Big 12 wins (19) and ranked wins (nine) in 2024-25. A hallmark of Campbell's spread pick-n-roll offense, TCU led college basketball in 3-pointers in 2024-25, connecting 354 times from distance, and have drained an NCAA-leading 1,003 threes since 2023. TCU and Campbell will also carry the longest home winning streak in college basketball history (44 games) into the 2026-27 season.
Campbell's leadership has reinvigorated a passion for women's basketball across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. His 2024-25 Horned Frogs squad inspired a 65.5 percent increase in total fan attendance from the 2023-24 season. TCU and Campbell increased their cumulative attendance figure by 29,332 fans and drew the largest home crowd to ever attend a TCU women’s sporting event (7,494 fans) in its second round NCAA Tournament victory over Louisville.
2025-26
If 2024-25 was the year TCU women's basketball went mainstream, the 2025-26 campaign is where Campbell solidified the Horned Frogs' placement among the nation's elite. Picked first in the preseason Big 12 coaches' and media polls for the first time ever, Campbell and the Frogs more than measured up. TCU finished 15-3 in league play, becoming the only repeat undisputed Power Conference regular season champion in college basketball. The Frogs secured a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and the right to host first and second round games for the second straight year on their way to another Elite Eight appearance. TCU and Campbell again ran the table at home, finishing 20-0 inside Schollmaier Arena, and extended the program's home winning streak to an NCAA-leading 44 games.
TCU began the year tabbed No. 17 in The Associated Press poll and maintained a top-20 ranking from start to finish, as Campbell extended the program's record run of consecutive AP Top 25 rankings to 38 polls. The Horned Frogs won 12 of their last 14 games and ultimately finished a program record No. 6 in the AP Top 25 for the second straight season. Mirroring the nationwide recogniton, TCU played a program record 15 games on linear television, finishing with a 10-5 record on the big screen.
Campbell's third season saw the program reinforce its defensive identity. TCU posted the second-lowest opponent field goal percentage in the country (.336) and allowed the fewest points per game (56.3) of any Big 12 team. The Horned Frogs held 11 opponents to their lowest scoring output of the season and prevented an NCAA-best 15 teams from connecting above a 30 percent clip from the field. TCU, along with South Carolina and UConn, was one of only three teams to shoot it better than 47 percent for the year while keeping its opponents below 35 percent. On the other end of the court, TCU again topped the Big 12 with 337 threes and ranked fifth nationally in 3-point offense. TCU also finished as the only team in the country with four players who have each made 55 three
Individually, Campbell coached Olivia Miles to Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year accolades. With Campbell's guidance, Miles recorded a school record and NCAA-leading six triple-doubles and closed out her college career as the sport's first player to average at least 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 48 percent from the field. Miles became TCU's first-ever first team All-American. Miles earned unanimous All-Big 12 first team honors as did Marta Suarez, who gave Campbell his fourth TCU All-American player. Together, they were two of three Horned Frogs who heard their names called in the 2026 WNBA Draft. Miles went No. 2 overall to the Minnesota Lynx, becoming the second-highest professional draft pick TCU Athletics has ever produced in any sport and highest in the modern era. Suarez was selected with the No. 17 overall pick while Taylor Bigby came off the board at No. 37. Paired with 2025 draftees Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner, TCU's five WNBA Draft picks over the last two seasons are the fourth-most of any Division I program.
2024-25
The 2024-25 season was the greatest in TCU men's and women's basketball history by every measure. Two seasons after finishing dead last in the Big 12, Campbell guided TCU to a clean sweep of the conference regular season and tournament titles, a No. 2 seed and Elite Eight run in the NCAA Tournament and a school record 34 victories. Campbell delivered TCU its first Big 12 basketball championships, its first NCAA Tournament berth in 15 years and became the first head coach to lead a Horned Frog basketball team to the second weekend of the Big Dance. TCU attained its highest AP Top 25 ranking ever at No. 6 following its Big 12 tournament title and maintained the mark in the season's final poll. Campbell and the Horned Frogs defeated a school record nine ranked teams, highlighted by the program's highest-ranked win in a nonconference defeat of No. 3 Notre Dame and first victories over national power Baylor in 35 years. TCU finished unbeaten at home (21-0) for the first time ever and capped its showcase along Stadium Dr by hosting NCAA Tournament games for the first time ever.
TCU again led the Power Conference ranks in year-over win improvement differential (+13) and topped the charts in conference percentage increase (+556). Campbell's squad led the nation in 3-pointers (354) and finished as the only team nationwide ranked in the top-10 in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage (6th,.380) and 3-pointers per game (9th, 9.5). The Horned Frogs' 34 victories were tied for the fourth-most of any D1 program. TCU also earned the distinction of being the sole team at the Power Conference level to win both an undisputed regular season league title and conference tournament championship.
Campbell vaulted TCU into the limelight well before the season even began with the recruitment of eventual Big 12 Player of the Year Hailey Van Lith. The transfer guard was named to the 2024 USA Basketball 3x3 Women's National Team just weeks after pledging to Campbell and went on to lead the Americans to a bronze medal at the Paris Games, becoming TCU's first Olympics medalist in 24 years. Van Lith became Campbell's eighth of nine All-Americans at season's end, as she earned accolades from every major publication, including third team honors by the Associated Press and U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Together, Campbell and Van Lith were the architects of college basketball's most captivating story and their contributions were reflected in the year-end awards roundup. Campbell was crowned Big 12 Coach of the Year and was honored as one of four finalists for the Naismith Coach of the Year award. He became the first coach in the history of the Big 12 to garner Conference Coach of the Year honors withintwo seasons of joining the league and was the only Naismith Coach of the Year finalist who has spent less than five seasons in a head coaching capacity. Campbell coached Van Lith to a sweep of Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year honors. Van Lith was one of three All-Big 12 first team players Campbell mentored alongside Sedona Prince and Madison Conner. All three players were Naismith Starting Five Awards finalists at their respective positions. Van Lith broke TCU's single-season records for points scored (683) and assists (204) and was one of only three players in the country in 2024-25 to record 600 points and 200 assists. Conner drilled an NCAA-leading 128 threes en route to becoming a Drysdale Award finalist for the first time in her career. Prince closed out her college career with a trio of honorable mention All-American citations from the Associated Press, USBWA and WBCA was tabbed as a Lisa Leslie Award top-five finalist.
2023-24
Campbell facilitated a 13-game year-over-year win improvement – the largest of any Power Six conference program – in his first year in Fort Worth. TCU finished with a 21-12 overall record and earned its first postseason berth in five years, advancing to the second round of the WBIT. Behind Campbell, TCU enjoyed the largest year-over-year win improvement and win percentage increase (.399) of all Power Six conference programs, leading the country in both metrics among teams with a first-year head coach. The Horned Frogs ranked third and fourth, respectively, across the national ranks in winning percentage differential and year-over win total. Campbell was one of only four head coaches to more than double his team’s overall win tally from 2022-23. TCU finished as one of only two teams in the country ranked in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage and 3-point percentage differential. Campbell also led TCU to its earliest AP top-25 ranking in 13 years and ascended the Horned Frogs as high as 22nd in the NCAA NET Rankings.
Known for facilitating rapid rebuilds, Campbell more than lived up to his reputation. Campbell led TCU to its first postseason berth in five years, as the Horned Frogs received a No. 3 seed in the WBIT and advanced to the second round of the inaugural event. Campbell sparked the program renaissance by leading TCU to its best start to a season in school history. TCU won 14 straight games to begin the year, running the table in nonconference play for the second time ever and setting a program record for consecutive victories. Along the way, Campbell became the first TCU head men’s or women’s basketball coach to break into The Associated Press poll in year one on the job. TCU cracked the AP top-25 on Dec. 18, 2023 – its earliest appearance in 13 years – and attained a season-high ranking of 23rd the following week. Campbell also guided TCU to its best-ever NCAA Net Ranking, as the Horned Frogs ascended as high as 22nd in the tables after ending the 2022-23 season tabbed No. 131.
TCU broke six school records in 2023-24, setting new all-time marks for 3-pointers (312), season assist average (16.7), season rebounding defense (34.2), 3-point attempts (862) and consecutive wins (14). The Horned Frogs also notched the second-most assists (551) in a season in program history. Individually, Madison Conner knocked down a school record 100 threes in Campbell’s spread pick-and-roll offense. Conner became the fifth Big 12 player to reach triple figures in threes in a season while TCU produced the third-highest 3-pointer per game average (9.5) in conference history.
Under Campbell, Conner and Sedona Prince became the top-two scorers in the Big 12 and the nation’s highest-scoring tandem as the only duo in the country to average 20 points per game apiece. Both players garnered postseason all-conference accolades despite missing significant time due to injury, with Conner tabbed to the All-Big 12 second team. Prince was one of 10 centers named a Lisa Leslie Award finalist – the first TCU player to achieve the milestone – and was selected to the Wooden Award Midseason Top-25 Watch List.
Ticket demands and community interest in TCU women’s basketball bloomed amidst the Frogs’ record-setting first year under Campbell. A total of 44,806 fans packed the purple bleachers over 20 home games, constituting a 55 percent increase in total fan attendance from the previous season. Campbell’s squad also helped inspire a 102 percent increase in student attendance.
Campbell couped the nation’s No. 11 overall and the Big 12’s top-rated transfer class in the 2023 recruiting cycle according to the On3’s Team Transfer Portal Index. TCU signed three players featured in World Exposure Report’s expanded top-100 player rankings in Prince (No. 25), Conner (No. 66) and No. 92 Agnes Emma-Nnopu. Campbell’s six-player transfer class included a pair of consensus five-star talents in Prince, who was graded the No. 8 overall prospect in the class of 2018 by ESPN.com, and Jaden Owens, the nation’s 13th-best talent and No. 3 point guard prospect in 2019, along with four-star guards Conner and Emma-Nnopu.
Sacramento State (2021-23)
After inheriting a 3-22 team, it took Campbell just two seasons to take the Hornets to the NCAA Tournament. Campbell led Sacramento State to a school record 25 wins and its first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history in 2022-23. The Hornets won a share of their first Big Sky regular season championship and first Big Sky Tournament title. The 25 victories marked the first 20-win season in program history and were also the most ever by a Sacramento State men's or women's basketball team.
Campbell facilitated an 11-game year-over-year win improvement in each of his two seasons at the helm. Sacramento State's 14 wins in its first season under Campbell were tied for the nation's seventh-best turnaround.
During his two years with Sacramento State, in which he produced a 39-24 record, Campbell coached four players to All-Big Sky honors. Included in that total were Conference Most Valuable Players Lianna Tillman in 2021-22, the first Hornet to win the honor in the program's history, and Kahlaijah Dean in 2022-23. The Hornets also had the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year recipient in each of the last two seasons in Isnelle Natabou in 2021-22 and Dean in 2022-23.
Oregon (2014-21)
Campbell spent seven seasons at Oregon with the last six as associate head coach. Campbell helped lead Oregon to three straight Pac-12 regular-season titles, two Pac-12 Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2019. He worked with Oregon's guards, created the Ducks' defensive game plan and was the team's lead recruiter.
Campbell was responsible for recruiting Ionescu, one of the most decorated players in the sport's history. Ionescu was joined in the top 10 of the 2020 WNBA Draft by teammates Satou Sabally (No. 2) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8), both of whom Campbell also played a huge role in bringing to the Ducks.
Regarded as the one of the nation's elite recruiters, Campbell brought high level talent each year to Oregon. Campbell was the lead recruiter in the hunt for Ionescu, who was the top-ranked guard in the country and No. 4 overall recruit. It helped Oregon net the nation's No. 3 ranked class in 2016. Campbell was then instrumental in Oregon landing its first-ever No. 1 ranked recruiting class in 2020, bringing in five players who were consensus top-25 recruits and McDonalds All-Americans. Campbell was also key in signing top international players, including Berlin, Germany, native Satou Sabally, considered the top international forward in the 2017 recruiting class, and her younger sister, star power forward Nyara Sabally, in the 2018 class.
Campbell and the Ducks advanced to the program's first-ever NCAA Final Four in 2019 while repeating as Pac-12 regular-season champions and totaling a school-record 33 wins for the second year in a row. For the first time in his career, Campbell tutored a player to national player of the year honors as Ionescu was named both the Wooden Award and Wade Trophy winner.
In 2018, Campbell helped guide the Ducks to a second straight Elite Eight appearance and the program's first Pac-12 regular-season championship since 2000. The Ducks also captured their first Pac-12 Tournament title in program history behind a championship game record 36 points from Ionescu in a 20-point win over Stanford. Ionescu earned her first of three straight Pac-12 Player of the Year awards and became the Oregon's first first-team All-American since 1982.
Oregon's rise to prominence began with the 2016-17 season, when Ionescu and Hebard burst onto the scene as true freshmen and helped Oregon secure its first NCAA Tournament bid since 2005. A No. 11 seed, Oregon beat No. 2 seed Duke on its home floor in the second round. The Ducks kept their magical run going with another upset over No. 3 seed Maryland to reach the first Elite Eight in program history. Ionescu went on to earn ESPNW and USBWA national Freshman of the Year honors.
Prior to Oregon (2005-10)
Prior to joining Oregon, Campbell served on the staff at Oregon State. Beginning as an assistant coach, he was promoted to associate head coach for the 2013-14 season. Campbell proved instrumental in the recruiting efforts of the Beavers. He was an integral part of turning around a program that went from 9-21 in 2010-11 to an NCAA Second Round appearance in 2014.
Before heading to Corvallis, Campbell spent two seasons with the men's program at Saint Mary's. He was the team's director of operations before becoming an assistant coach under Randy Bennett. Preceding his stint at Saint Mary's, Campbell spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach for the Pepperdine men's program under Vance Walberg.
From 2005-07, Campbell coached at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Ore., helping the Cougars to the 2007 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship.
Playing Career (2000-04)
Campbell played at Cal Poly and Clackamas CC before transferring to Hawai`i for his final two seasons. He guided the Warriors to an NCAA Tournament bid in 2002 and NIT appearance in 2003. Starting all but one game, he is the winningest two-year player in Hawai`i's history and led the team to a school-record 27 victories in 2001-02. He was a WAC all-defensive team pick as a senior and was a two-time WAC all-academic selection. In June 2016, Campbell was inducted into the Clackamas Hall of Fame. In 2012 and 2013, Campbell was selected to attend Nike's renowned Villa 7 Consortium, which brings together university athletics directors and the country's elite assistant coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball head coaches.
Personal
Campbell earned a degree in liberal studies from Hawai`i in 2004 and obtained a master's degree in education from George Fox in 2006. He is a native of Mt. Vernon, Wash. Campbell and his wife, Ashley, who played basketball at Vanderbilt, have two daughters, Maley and Makay.
Campbell was named the eighth head women’s basketball coach in TCU athletics history on March 21, 2023, and success has followed at every turn. Ahead of his fourth season at the helm, Campbell has led TCU to three Big 12 championships, including consecutive undisputed regular season titles in 2024-25 and 2025-26, back-to-back Elite Eight appearances and two straight 30-win seasons. The Horned Frogs have won the sixth-most games of any team in college basketball (87) and notched 20 AP Top 10 rankings since 2023. In the last two seasons alone, Campbell has coached five WNBA Draft picks, four All-Americans and two Big 12 Players of the Year. Six of his players have earned all-conference accolades.
The 2025 Big 12 Coach of the Year, Campbell enters the 2026-27 campaign as one of only two active head coaches to post two 30-win seasons within his or her first three seasons at the Power Conference level. His career winning percentage as TCU’s head coach (.798) is the fifth-highest of any Power Conference head coach since 2023, trailing only Dawn Staley (.932), Cori Close (.899), Vic Schaefer (.888) and Kim Mulkey (.835).
Across his two decades in the industry, Campbell has recruited and coached 18 WNBA or NBA Draft selections, a group that includes 2026 WNBA Rookie of the Year Olivia Miles and 2024 Olympian Hailey Van Lith. Of equal note, nine of Campbell's former players competed in the Paris Games, including Sabrina Ionescu and Van Lith, who respectively won gold and bronze medals for Team USA in 5-on-5 and 3x3. In five years as a head coach, four of Campbell's point guards have claimed conference player of the year honors; Van Lith Miles (TCU, 2026), (TCU, 2025), Kahlaijah Dean (Sac State, 2023) and Lianna Tillman (Sac State, 2022). Campbell has coached 11 All-American players in his career, four of whom suited up for the Horned Frogs.
Before touching down in the Lone Star State, Campbell served two seasons as head coach at Sacramento State from 2021-23, guiding the Hornets to their first-ever Big Sky regular season and tournament championships and first NCAA Tournament berth in his final year. Campbell came to northern California following a seven-year assistant coaching tenure at Oregon, where he became widely regarded as the nation’s best recruiter. While in Eugene, Campbell was responsible for the recruitment of three top-10 picks in the 2020 WNBA Draft in Ionescu (No. 1), Satou Sabally (No. 2) and current TCU assistant coach Ruthy Hebard (No. 8). He also assembled the No. 1 overall recruiting class in 2020, a group that included five players who were both consensus top-25 talents and McDonald's All-Americans.
Career Coaching Highlights
- 2025 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2025 Naismith Coach of the Year finalist
- 2023 Big Sky Coach of the Year
- 11-time conference champion coach
- Facilitated a combined 48-game year-over-year win improvement in his first four seasons as a head coach
- 126-46 career head coaching record
- 87-22 at TCU
- Has recruited and coached 18 WNBA Draft picks, including seven first round selections; Sabrina Ionescu (No. 1, 2020), Olivia Miles (No. 2, 2026), Satou Sabally (No. 2, 2020), Nyara Sabally (No. 5, 2021), Ruthy Hebard (No. 8, 2020), Hailey Van Lith (No. 11, 2025) and Sydney Wiese (No. 11, 2017)
- Has coached six players to eight combined conference player of the year accolades
- Olivia Miles (Big 12, 2026)
- Hailey Van Lith (Big 12, 2025)
- Kahlaijah Dean (Big Sky, 2023)
- Lianna Tillman (Big Sky, 2022)
- Sabrina Ionescu (Pac-12, 2018-20)
- Jillian Alleyne (Pac-12, 2016)
- Recruited and coached two eventual WNBA Rookies of the Year
- Olivia Miles (2026)
- Sabrina Ionescu (2020)
- Coached nine 2024 Olympians
- Hailey Van Lith
- Sabrina Ionescu
- Satou Sabally
- Nyara Sabally
- Maite Cazorla
- Aina Ayuso
- Anneli Maley
- Matthew Dellavedova
- Patty Mills
- First TCU basketball coach to win a Big 12 Championship and reach the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament
- Won a TCU basketball record 34 games in 2024-25
- Five-time Elite Eight participant (2017-19, 2025-26)
- 2019 NCAA Final Four
- Pioneered Sacramento State to a school record 25 wins and the institution's first NCAA Tournament appearance in men's or women's basketball in 2022-23
- Developed Sabrina Ionescu into a two-time Wooden Award and Wade Trophy winner in 2019 and 2020
- Assembled the No. 1 and No. 3 overall recruiting classes in 2020 and 2016, respectively, at Oregon
- Guided Oregon to six consecutive NCAA Tournaments, including a trio of Elite Eight appearances from 2017-2019 and the program’s first-ever Final Four in 2019
The 2024-25 season punctuated the greatest turnaround in college basketball of the 2020s. With Campbell at the helm, TCU has enjoyed the greatest turnaround in college basketball ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. Campbell facilitated a combined 26-game year-over win improvement - the largest of any program nationwide - over his first two seasons in Funky town. TCU and Campbell's run to an undisputed Big 12 regular season championship saw the program become one of only two in conference history to capture a league title within two seasons of finishing in last place. Campbell augmented TCU's year-over conference win tally by 12 games in 2024-25, good for the largest single-season increase in college basketball and largest year-over-year conference regular season win percentage improvement (.556) at the Power Conference level.
Together, Campbell and the Horned Frogs have shattered nearly every major school record in his tenure, including single-season marks for total wins (34), home wins (21), Big 12 wins (19) and ranked wins (nine) in 2024-25. A hallmark of Campbell's spread pick-n-roll offense, TCU led college basketball in 3-pointers in 2024-25, connecting 354 times from distance, and have drained an NCAA-leading 1,003 threes since 2023. TCU and Campbell will also carry the longest home winning streak in college basketball history (44 games) into the 2026-27 season.
Campbell's leadership has reinvigorated a passion for women's basketball across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. His 2024-25 Horned Frogs squad inspired a 65.5 percent increase in total fan attendance from the 2023-24 season. TCU and Campbell increased their cumulative attendance figure by 29,332 fans and drew the largest home crowd to ever attend a TCU women’s sporting event (7,494 fans) in its second round NCAA Tournament victory over Louisville.
2025-26
If 2024-25 was the year TCU women's basketball went mainstream, the 2025-26 campaign is where Campbell solidified the Horned Frogs' placement among the nation's elite. Picked first in the preseason Big 12 coaches' and media polls for the first time ever, Campbell and the Frogs more than measured up. TCU finished 15-3 in league play, becoming the only repeat undisputed Power Conference regular season champion in college basketball. The Frogs secured a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and the right to host first and second round games for the second straight year on their way to another Elite Eight appearance. TCU and Campbell again ran the table at home, finishing 20-0 inside Schollmaier Arena, and extended the program's home winning streak to an NCAA-leading 44 games.
TCU began the year tabbed No. 17 in The Associated Press poll and maintained a top-20 ranking from start to finish, as Campbell extended the program's record run of consecutive AP Top 25 rankings to 38 polls. The Horned Frogs won 12 of their last 14 games and ultimately finished a program record No. 6 in the AP Top 25 for the second straight season. Mirroring the nationwide recogniton, TCU played a program record 15 games on linear television, finishing with a 10-5 record on the big screen.
Campbell's third season saw the program reinforce its defensive identity. TCU posted the second-lowest opponent field goal percentage in the country (.336) and allowed the fewest points per game (56.3) of any Big 12 team. The Horned Frogs held 11 opponents to their lowest scoring output of the season and prevented an NCAA-best 15 teams from connecting above a 30 percent clip from the field. TCU, along with South Carolina and UConn, was one of only three teams to shoot it better than 47 percent for the year while keeping its opponents below 35 percent. On the other end of the court, TCU again topped the Big 12 with 337 threes and ranked fifth nationally in 3-point offense. TCU also finished as the only team in the country with four players who have each made 55 three
Individually, Campbell coached Olivia Miles to Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year accolades. With Campbell's guidance, Miles recorded a school record and NCAA-leading six triple-doubles and closed out her college career as the sport's first player to average at least 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 48 percent from the field. Miles became TCU's first-ever first team All-American. Miles earned unanimous All-Big 12 first team honors as did Marta Suarez, who gave Campbell his fourth TCU All-American player. Together, they were two of three Horned Frogs who heard their names called in the 2026 WNBA Draft. Miles went No. 2 overall to the Minnesota Lynx, becoming the second-highest professional draft pick TCU Athletics has ever produced in any sport and highest in the modern era. Suarez was selected with the No. 17 overall pick while Taylor Bigby came off the board at No. 37. Paired with 2025 draftees Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner, TCU's five WNBA Draft picks over the last two seasons are the fourth-most of any Division I program.
2024-25
The 2024-25 season was the greatest in TCU men's and women's basketball history by every measure. Two seasons after finishing dead last in the Big 12, Campbell guided TCU to a clean sweep of the conference regular season and tournament titles, a No. 2 seed and Elite Eight run in the NCAA Tournament and a school record 34 victories. Campbell delivered TCU its first Big 12 basketball championships, its first NCAA Tournament berth in 15 years and became the first head coach to lead a Horned Frog basketball team to the second weekend of the Big Dance. TCU attained its highest AP Top 25 ranking ever at No. 6 following its Big 12 tournament title and maintained the mark in the season's final poll. Campbell and the Horned Frogs defeated a school record nine ranked teams, highlighted by the program's highest-ranked win in a nonconference defeat of No. 3 Notre Dame and first victories over national power Baylor in 35 years. TCU finished unbeaten at home (21-0) for the first time ever and capped its showcase along Stadium Dr by hosting NCAA Tournament games for the first time ever.
TCU again led the Power Conference ranks in year-over win improvement differential (+13) and topped the charts in conference percentage increase (+556). Campbell's squad led the nation in 3-pointers (354) and finished as the only team nationwide ranked in the top-10 in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage (6th,.380) and 3-pointers per game (9th, 9.5). The Horned Frogs' 34 victories were tied for the fourth-most of any D1 program. TCU also earned the distinction of being the sole team at the Power Conference level to win both an undisputed regular season league title and conference tournament championship.
Campbell vaulted TCU into the limelight well before the season even began with the recruitment of eventual Big 12 Player of the Year Hailey Van Lith. The transfer guard was named to the 2024 USA Basketball 3x3 Women's National Team just weeks after pledging to Campbell and went on to lead the Americans to a bronze medal at the Paris Games, becoming TCU's first Olympics medalist in 24 years. Van Lith became Campbell's eighth of nine All-Americans at season's end, as she earned accolades from every major publication, including third team honors by the Associated Press and U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Together, Campbell and Van Lith were the architects of college basketball's most captivating story and their contributions were reflected in the year-end awards roundup. Campbell was crowned Big 12 Coach of the Year and was honored as one of four finalists for the Naismith Coach of the Year award. He became the first coach in the history of the Big 12 to garner Conference Coach of the Year honors withintwo seasons of joining the league and was the only Naismith Coach of the Year finalist who has spent less than five seasons in a head coaching capacity. Campbell coached Van Lith to a sweep of Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year honors. Van Lith was one of three All-Big 12 first team players Campbell mentored alongside Sedona Prince and Madison Conner. All three players were Naismith Starting Five Awards finalists at their respective positions. Van Lith broke TCU's single-season records for points scored (683) and assists (204) and was one of only three players in the country in 2024-25 to record 600 points and 200 assists. Conner drilled an NCAA-leading 128 threes en route to becoming a Drysdale Award finalist for the first time in her career. Prince closed out her college career with a trio of honorable mention All-American citations from the Associated Press, USBWA and WBCA was tabbed as a Lisa Leslie Award top-five finalist.
2023-24
Campbell facilitated a 13-game year-over-year win improvement – the largest of any Power Six conference program – in his first year in Fort Worth. TCU finished with a 21-12 overall record and earned its first postseason berth in five years, advancing to the second round of the WBIT. Behind Campbell, TCU enjoyed the largest year-over-year win improvement and win percentage increase (.399) of all Power Six conference programs, leading the country in both metrics among teams with a first-year head coach. The Horned Frogs ranked third and fourth, respectively, across the national ranks in winning percentage differential and year-over win total. Campbell was one of only four head coaches to more than double his team’s overall win tally from 2022-23. TCU finished as one of only two teams in the country ranked in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage and 3-point percentage differential. Campbell also led TCU to its earliest AP top-25 ranking in 13 years and ascended the Horned Frogs as high as 22nd in the NCAA NET Rankings.
Known for facilitating rapid rebuilds, Campbell more than lived up to his reputation. Campbell led TCU to its first postseason berth in five years, as the Horned Frogs received a No. 3 seed in the WBIT and advanced to the second round of the inaugural event. Campbell sparked the program renaissance by leading TCU to its best start to a season in school history. TCU won 14 straight games to begin the year, running the table in nonconference play for the second time ever and setting a program record for consecutive victories. Along the way, Campbell became the first TCU head men’s or women’s basketball coach to break into The Associated Press poll in year one on the job. TCU cracked the AP top-25 on Dec. 18, 2023 – its earliest appearance in 13 years – and attained a season-high ranking of 23rd the following week. Campbell also guided TCU to its best-ever NCAA Net Ranking, as the Horned Frogs ascended as high as 22nd in the tables after ending the 2022-23 season tabbed No. 131.
TCU broke six school records in 2023-24, setting new all-time marks for 3-pointers (312), season assist average (16.7), season rebounding defense (34.2), 3-point attempts (862) and consecutive wins (14). The Horned Frogs also notched the second-most assists (551) in a season in program history. Individually, Madison Conner knocked down a school record 100 threes in Campbell’s spread pick-and-roll offense. Conner became the fifth Big 12 player to reach triple figures in threes in a season while TCU produced the third-highest 3-pointer per game average (9.5) in conference history.
Under Campbell, Conner and Sedona Prince became the top-two scorers in the Big 12 and the nation’s highest-scoring tandem as the only duo in the country to average 20 points per game apiece. Both players garnered postseason all-conference accolades despite missing significant time due to injury, with Conner tabbed to the All-Big 12 second team. Prince was one of 10 centers named a Lisa Leslie Award finalist – the first TCU player to achieve the milestone – and was selected to the Wooden Award Midseason Top-25 Watch List.
Ticket demands and community interest in TCU women’s basketball bloomed amidst the Frogs’ record-setting first year under Campbell. A total of 44,806 fans packed the purple bleachers over 20 home games, constituting a 55 percent increase in total fan attendance from the previous season. Campbell’s squad also helped inspire a 102 percent increase in student attendance.
Campbell couped the nation’s No. 11 overall and the Big 12’s top-rated transfer class in the 2023 recruiting cycle according to the On3’s Team Transfer Portal Index. TCU signed three players featured in World Exposure Report’s expanded top-100 player rankings in Prince (No. 25), Conner (No. 66) and No. 92 Agnes Emma-Nnopu. Campbell’s six-player transfer class included a pair of consensus five-star talents in Prince, who was graded the No. 8 overall prospect in the class of 2018 by ESPN.com, and Jaden Owens, the nation’s 13th-best talent and No. 3 point guard prospect in 2019, along with four-star guards Conner and Emma-Nnopu.
Sacramento State (2021-23)
After inheriting a 3-22 team, it took Campbell just two seasons to take the Hornets to the NCAA Tournament. Campbell led Sacramento State to a school record 25 wins and its first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history in 2022-23. The Hornets won a share of their first Big Sky regular season championship and first Big Sky Tournament title. The 25 victories marked the first 20-win season in program history and were also the most ever by a Sacramento State men's or women's basketball team.
Campbell facilitated an 11-game year-over-year win improvement in each of his two seasons at the helm. Sacramento State's 14 wins in its first season under Campbell were tied for the nation's seventh-best turnaround.
During his two years with Sacramento State, in which he produced a 39-24 record, Campbell coached four players to All-Big Sky honors. Included in that total were Conference Most Valuable Players Lianna Tillman in 2021-22, the first Hornet to win the honor in the program's history, and Kahlaijah Dean in 2022-23. The Hornets also had the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year recipient in each of the last two seasons in Isnelle Natabou in 2021-22 and Dean in 2022-23.
Oregon (2014-21)
Campbell spent seven seasons at Oregon with the last six as associate head coach. Campbell helped lead Oregon to three straight Pac-12 regular-season titles, two Pac-12 Tournament championships and six NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2019. He worked with Oregon's guards, created the Ducks' defensive game plan and was the team's lead recruiter.
Campbell was responsible for recruiting Ionescu, one of the most decorated players in the sport's history. Ionescu was joined in the top 10 of the 2020 WNBA Draft by teammates Satou Sabally (No. 2) and Ruthy Hebard (No. 8), both of whom Campbell also played a huge role in bringing to the Ducks.
Regarded as the one of the nation's elite recruiters, Campbell brought high level talent each year to Oregon. Campbell was the lead recruiter in the hunt for Ionescu, who was the top-ranked guard in the country and No. 4 overall recruit. It helped Oregon net the nation's No. 3 ranked class in 2016. Campbell was then instrumental in Oregon landing its first-ever No. 1 ranked recruiting class in 2020, bringing in five players who were consensus top-25 recruits and McDonalds All-Americans. Campbell was also key in signing top international players, including Berlin, Germany, native Satou Sabally, considered the top international forward in the 2017 recruiting class, and her younger sister, star power forward Nyara Sabally, in the 2018 class.
Campbell and the Ducks advanced to the program's first-ever NCAA Final Four in 2019 while repeating as Pac-12 regular-season champions and totaling a school-record 33 wins for the second year in a row. For the first time in his career, Campbell tutored a player to national player of the year honors as Ionescu was named both the Wooden Award and Wade Trophy winner.
In 2018, Campbell helped guide the Ducks to a second straight Elite Eight appearance and the program's first Pac-12 regular-season championship since 2000. The Ducks also captured their first Pac-12 Tournament title in program history behind a championship game record 36 points from Ionescu in a 20-point win over Stanford. Ionescu earned her first of three straight Pac-12 Player of the Year awards and became the Oregon's first first-team All-American since 1982.
Oregon's rise to prominence began with the 2016-17 season, when Ionescu and Hebard burst onto the scene as true freshmen and helped Oregon secure its first NCAA Tournament bid since 2005. A No. 11 seed, Oregon beat No. 2 seed Duke on its home floor in the second round. The Ducks kept their magical run going with another upset over No. 3 seed Maryland to reach the first Elite Eight in program history. Ionescu went on to earn ESPNW and USBWA national Freshman of the Year honors.
Prior to Oregon (2005-10)
Prior to joining Oregon, Campbell served on the staff at Oregon State. Beginning as an assistant coach, he was promoted to associate head coach for the 2013-14 season. Campbell proved instrumental in the recruiting efforts of the Beavers. He was an integral part of turning around a program that went from 9-21 in 2010-11 to an NCAA Second Round appearance in 2014.
Before heading to Corvallis, Campbell spent two seasons with the men's program at Saint Mary's. He was the team's director of operations before becoming an assistant coach under Randy Bennett. Preceding his stint at Saint Mary's, Campbell spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach for the Pepperdine men's program under Vance Walberg.
From 2005-07, Campbell coached at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Ore., helping the Cougars to the 2007 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship.
Playing Career (2000-04)
Campbell played at Cal Poly and Clackamas CC before transferring to Hawai`i for his final two seasons. He guided the Warriors to an NCAA Tournament bid in 2002 and NIT appearance in 2003. Starting all but one game, he is the winningest two-year player in Hawai`i's history and led the team to a school-record 27 victories in 2001-02. He was a WAC all-defensive team pick as a senior and was a two-time WAC all-academic selection. In June 2016, Campbell was inducted into the Clackamas Hall of Fame. In 2012 and 2013, Campbell was selected to attend Nike's renowned Villa 7 Consortium, which brings together university athletics directors and the country's elite assistant coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball head coaches.
Personal
Campbell earned a degree in liberal studies from Hawai`i in 2004 and obtained a master's degree in education from George Fox in 2006. He is a native of Mt. Vernon, Wash. Campbell and his wife, Ashley, who played basketball at Vanderbilt, have two daughters, Maley and Makay.
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