Women's Basketball
Xavier Lopez
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- X.LOPEZ@tcu.edu
When the 2026-27 season begins, Xavier Lopez will start his fourth year as the associate head coach of TCU women's basketball.
Lopez, who goes by Xavi (Cha-vee), is entering his 13th straight season working alongside TCU head coach Mark Campbell, including the last six in an associate head coaching role. Originally from Barcelona, Spain, Lopez served as Campbell’s associate head coach during their two-year tenure at Sacramento State from 2021-23. Prior to venturing to northern California, Lopez worked in tandem with Campbell for seven seasons at Oregon, the last four as an assistant coach.
Together, he and Campbell have won 11 conference championships, including three at TCU, led five teams to the Elite Eight and enjoyed a Final Four run at Oregon in 2019. Individually, Lopez has helped recruit and coach seven All-Americans, six conference players of the year and six WNBA first round draft picks throughout his coaching career, including eventual WNBA Rookies of the Year Olivia Miles (2026) and Sabrina Ionescu and 2024 Olympian Hailey Van Lith.
Dubbed by Campbell as "the best international recruiter in women's basketball," Lopez chairs the Horned Frogs’ international recruiting efforts and oversees the program’s offensive strategy.
"I am thrilled to have Xavi as my associate head coach," Campbell said. "With an incredible network overseas, he is the best international recruiter in women's basketball. Xavi has an incredible basketball mind that sees the offensive game in a unique way, but more importantly, he is a relationship builder. He is a great mentor to these young women."
TCU (2023-Present)
Lopez has been a lynchpin behind the greatest turnaround in college women's basketball ahead of his fourth season in Funky Town. With Lopez on the sidelines, TCU has posted an 87-22 combined overall record, won three Big 12 championships, notched two Elite Eight appearances and two No. 6 year-end national rankings. Lopez has coached five WNBA Draft picks, four All-Americans and two Big 12 Players of the Year across his tenure in Fort Worth. His deep recruiting web has resulted in TCU to routinely assemble the nation's top transfer portal classes. Lopez helped secure pledges from six former ESPN top-50 prospects in 2026 and was keenly involved in the signings of eventual Big 12 Player of the Year honorees in Olivia Miles, the 2026 WNBA Rookie of the Year, and Hailey Van Lith, who became the first player in league history to be named Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in the same season. Other TCU standouts Lopez has mentored include All-Americans Sedona Prince and Marta Suarez and Madison Conner, who led college basketball in 3-pointers (128) in 2024-25. Since Lopez ventured to the gateway to the west, TCU has notched the sixth-most wins of any Division I program.
Lopez's contributions during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 campaigns enabled TCU to boost its combined year-over win differential by an NCAA-leading 26 games in that span. Just two years removed from an 8-23 season, Lopez helped lead TCU to a 34-4 overall record in 2024-25. Lopez and Campbell won their ninth and 10th conference championships together, sweeping the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles, and notched their fourth shared Elite Eight appearance. TCU earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, marking the program's first berth in the Big Dance in 15 seasons, and became the first Horned Frog men's or women's basketball team to advance to the second weekend.
His most recent season in Cowtown saw the Horned Frogs affirm their status as a major player in the new age of college basketball. Lopez and Campbell celebrated their 11th league title together, leading TCU to a repeat undisputed Big 12 regular season championship. TCU finished with a 32-6 overall record and again advanced all the way to the NCAA quarterfinals. Three players - Miles, Suarez and Taylor Bigby - went on to hear their names called in the 2026 WNBA Draft, giving TCU and Lopez the most draft selections of any Big 12 program in the last two years.
His refined understanding of the offensive side of the sport is evident in TCU's metrics. With Lopez leading the way, TCU has drilled an NCAA-leading 1,003 threes since 2023. The Horned Frogs entered the 2026-27 campaign as the only Division I program at the Power Conference level ranking in the top-10 in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage (6th, .367) and 3-point field goals per game (7th, 9.2). The Frogs drained an NCAA-leading 354 threes in 2024-25 while their net total of 666 in Lopez's first two seasons was the most ever by a Big 12 team in a two-year period. TCU topped the Big 12 in 3-pointers for the third time in as many years in Lopez's tenure in 2025-26, connecting 337 times from distance. TCU's offensive valuations have grown exponentially under Lopez and Campbell. Synergy Basketball graded the Frogs' 2024-25 offense as the third-most efficient in all of D1. The 2024-25 season also saw TCU score 74 points per game vs. Big 12 opposition after averaging 62.2 in 2023-24. The +11.8 points per game increase in league play was the sixth-largest in all of Division I basketball.
Last season, Lopez coached the nation's most dominant one-two offensive punch in Miles and Suarez. With his oversight, Miles and Suarez became the only teammate tandem to average at least 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and two assists per game and only duo with at least 600 points and 250 rebounds to their names. He guided Miles to first team All-American accolades and top-five finalist candidacy for the Nancy Lieberman Award. Miles recorded a school record and NCAA-leading six triple-doubles in the spread pick-n-roll, 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.
Lopez and TCU shattered nearly every major program record or statistical milestone in the 2024-25 campaign. The Frogs set TCU basketball records for total wins (34), home wins (21) and ranked wins (nine) and achieved their highest AP Top 25 ranking ever, slotting in at No. 6 in the final poll. TCU broke its 2023-24 program record for 3-pointers (354) and also surpassed its previous single-season marks for assists (688), assists per game (18.6) and points scored (2,914) among countless other feats.
Across the college basketball landscape, Lopez influenced one of the nation's most lethal and multi-faceted offenses. In 2024-25, TCU finished as one of only three teams ranking in the top 10 in assists (5th, 696) assist-to-turnover ratio (6th, 1.53) and assists per game (8th, 18.6) in all of D1. The Hroned Frogs dished out at least 20 dimes in nearly half of its games (16-of-38). From behind the arc, TCU reached double figures in 3-pointers in 18 games, the second-most of any team, and was the only squad in the NCAA Tournament field boasting five players with at least 40 makes from distance.
Lopez helped coach the nation's third-highest scoring trio in 2024-25 in the form of Van Lith (17.9 ppg), Prince (17.6 ppg) and Conner (14.6 ppg), who netted a combined 50.1 points per game. He helped mentor Van Lith into the first player to win Big 12 Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year accolades in the same season, developed Prince into a Lisa Leslie Award top-five finalist and saw Conner join the duo on the All-Big 12 first team. Van Lith went on to become the fifth WNBA first round draft pick Lopez has worked with, going 11th overall to the Chicago Sky, whole Conner was taken in the third round by the Seattle Storm.
It became evident TCU landed a rising star in the profession just weeks into Lopez's first season at TCU.
Despite touching down in Fort Worth in April 2023 at the apex of recruiting season, Lopez helped assemble the top-ranked transfer class in the Big 12 and No. 11 overall class in the nation in the On3.com team transfer portal index. His recruiting efforts led to TCU landing Prince, Conner and consensus five-star point guard Jaden Owens. Following the conclusion of portal season, Lopez was named one of the nation's "50 Most Impactful High Major Assistants" by Silver Waves Media.
Lopez guided TCU to a 21-12 overall record, season-high AP top-25 ranking of 23rd and a second round appearance in the WBIT in 2023-24. With Lopez aiding the scout for all 33 opponents, TCU enjoyed a record-breaking 14-0 start to the season and produced the largest year-over-year win improvement (13 games) and winning percentage differential (.399) of any Power Six conference program. In total, 11 of the Horned Frogs' 21 victories came at the expense of top-100 teams in the NCAA NET Rankings.
He brought the spread pick-n-roll east from northern California, and the offensive formation paid immediate dividends. TCU averaged 81 points per game, led the nation in 3-point percentage differential (.170) and was third among all D1 programs in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.81) over its first 15 contests.
A rash of midseason injuries prompted open tryouts and forced Lopez to implement an entirely new offense, the 5-out motion. Despite having never previously ran the scheme, Lopez's contributions saw TCU average 10.4 threes per night and join National Champion South Carolina as one of only two teams ranking in the top-25 in 3-point percentage offense and defense over eight games. TCU went on to win five of its final seven ballgames in the regular season, slowly reinstalling the spread pick-n-roll.
With Lopez as TCU's offensive guru, TCU finished the year as one of only two teams to rank in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage and 3-point percentage differential. Lopez also aided TCU in breaking school records for 3-pointers (312) and season assist average (16.7). TCU finished with the third-best 3-pointers per game average (9.5) in Big 12 history. Game-by-game, the Horned Frogs reached double figures in threes 16 times and produced an assist rate of 75 percent-or-better in 13 outings.
Sacramento State (2021-23)
Lopez helped facilitate one of the biggest two-year turnarounds in Division I basketball in his time at Sac State. He and Campbell inherited a program that concluded the 2020-2021 campaign 3-22 overall. With Lopez serving as the Hornets’ top assistant coach, the program enjoyed an 11-game year-over win improvement the following season. Lopez then spearheaded a season of firsts for Sac State in 2022-2023, guiding the Hornets to a school record 25 wins and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
At Sac State, Lopez again oversaw the spread pick-n-roll, which was one of the nation’s most efficient offenses. Last season, the Hornets led the NCAA in pick-n-rolls and finished 10th nationally in field goal percentage (46.5) and fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (38.5).
Oregon (2015-21)
Lopez played an integral role in leading Oregon to its most successful era on the hardwood. His time on the bench saw the Ducks notch five straight NCAA Tournament appearances, capture three Pac-12 regular season championships and two conference tournament titles and advance to the Final Four in 2019 for the first time in program history.
While in Eugene, Lopez assisted with scouting and recruiting, including leading the Ducks' international recruiting efforts. Under his watch, the Ducks were able to recruit Germany's Satou Sabally, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, and Spain's Maite Cazorla, the 23rd overall pick in 2019, to the pacific northwest.
Lopez also worked directly with the Oregon guards, overseeing a squad that led the nation in 3-point shooting in 2018-19, hitting 41.5 percent of its 3-point attempts, while ranking fourth in overall shooting at 50.1 percent.
Personal
Before transitioning to the coaching world, Lopez played professionally in Spain for six years for the Bilbao Basket in the prestigious ACB Spanish League among other clubs.
Prior to his professional career, Lopez competed collegiately at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon and at Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, from which he graduated in 2007.
He and his wife, Megan, reside in Fort Worth with their two daughters, Katie and Mikayla.
Lopez, who goes by Xavi (Cha-vee), is entering his 13th straight season working alongside TCU head coach Mark Campbell, including the last six in an associate head coaching role. Originally from Barcelona, Spain, Lopez served as Campbell’s associate head coach during their two-year tenure at Sacramento State from 2021-23. Prior to venturing to northern California, Lopez worked in tandem with Campbell for seven seasons at Oregon, the last four as an assistant coach.
Together, he and Campbell have won 11 conference championships, including three at TCU, led five teams to the Elite Eight and enjoyed a Final Four run at Oregon in 2019. Individually, Lopez has helped recruit and coach seven All-Americans, six conference players of the year and six WNBA first round draft picks throughout his coaching career, including eventual WNBA Rookies of the Year Olivia Miles (2026) and Sabrina Ionescu and 2024 Olympian Hailey Van Lith.
Dubbed by Campbell as "the best international recruiter in women's basketball," Lopez chairs the Horned Frogs’ international recruiting efforts and oversees the program’s offensive strategy.
"I am thrilled to have Xavi as my associate head coach," Campbell said. "With an incredible network overseas, he is the best international recruiter in women's basketball. Xavi has an incredible basketball mind that sees the offensive game in a unique way, but more importantly, he is a relationship builder. He is a great mentor to these young women."
TCU (2023-Present)
Lopez has been a lynchpin behind the greatest turnaround in college women's basketball ahead of his fourth season in Funky Town. With Lopez on the sidelines, TCU has posted an 87-22 combined overall record, won three Big 12 championships, notched two Elite Eight appearances and two No. 6 year-end national rankings. Lopez has coached five WNBA Draft picks, four All-Americans and two Big 12 Players of the Year across his tenure in Fort Worth. His deep recruiting web has resulted in TCU to routinely assemble the nation's top transfer portal classes. Lopez helped secure pledges from six former ESPN top-50 prospects in 2026 and was keenly involved in the signings of eventual Big 12 Player of the Year honorees in Olivia Miles, the 2026 WNBA Rookie of the Year, and Hailey Van Lith, who became the first player in league history to be named Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in the same season. Other TCU standouts Lopez has mentored include All-Americans Sedona Prince and Marta Suarez and Madison Conner, who led college basketball in 3-pointers (128) in 2024-25. Since Lopez ventured to the gateway to the west, TCU has notched the sixth-most wins of any Division I program.
Lopez's contributions during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 campaigns enabled TCU to boost its combined year-over win differential by an NCAA-leading 26 games in that span. Just two years removed from an 8-23 season, Lopez helped lead TCU to a 34-4 overall record in 2024-25. Lopez and Campbell won their ninth and 10th conference championships together, sweeping the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles, and notched their fourth shared Elite Eight appearance. TCU earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, marking the program's first berth in the Big Dance in 15 seasons, and became the first Horned Frog men's or women's basketball team to advance to the second weekend.
His most recent season in Cowtown saw the Horned Frogs affirm their status as a major player in the new age of college basketball. Lopez and Campbell celebrated their 11th league title together, leading TCU to a repeat undisputed Big 12 regular season championship. TCU finished with a 32-6 overall record and again advanced all the way to the NCAA quarterfinals. Three players - Miles, Suarez and Taylor Bigby - went on to hear their names called in the 2026 WNBA Draft, giving TCU and Lopez the most draft selections of any Big 12 program in the last two years.
His refined understanding of the offensive side of the sport is evident in TCU's metrics. With Lopez leading the way, TCU has drilled an NCAA-leading 1,003 threes since 2023. The Horned Frogs entered the 2026-27 campaign as the only Division I program at the Power Conference level ranking in the top-10 in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage (6th, .367) and 3-point field goals per game (7th, 9.2). The Frogs drained an NCAA-leading 354 threes in 2024-25 while their net total of 666 in Lopez's first two seasons was the most ever by a Big 12 team in a two-year period. TCU topped the Big 12 in 3-pointers for the third time in as many years in Lopez's tenure in 2025-26, connecting 337 times from distance. TCU's offensive valuations have grown exponentially under Lopez and Campbell. Synergy Basketball graded the Frogs' 2024-25 offense as the third-most efficient in all of D1. The 2024-25 season also saw TCU score 74 points per game vs. Big 12 opposition after averaging 62.2 in 2023-24. The +11.8 points per game increase in league play was the sixth-largest in all of Division I basketball.
Last season, Lopez coached the nation's most dominant one-two offensive punch in Miles and Suarez. With his oversight, Miles and Suarez became the only teammate tandem to average at least 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and two assists per game and only duo with at least 600 points and 250 rebounds to their names. He guided Miles to first team All-American accolades and top-five finalist candidacy for the Nancy Lieberman Award. Miles recorded a school record and NCAA-leading six triple-doubles in the spread pick-n-roll, 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.
Lopez and TCU shattered nearly every major program record or statistical milestone in the 2024-25 campaign. The Frogs set TCU basketball records for total wins (34), home wins (21) and ranked wins (nine) and achieved their highest AP Top 25 ranking ever, slotting in at No. 6 in the final poll. TCU broke its 2023-24 program record for 3-pointers (354) and also surpassed its previous single-season marks for assists (688), assists per game (18.6) and points scored (2,914) among countless other feats.
Across the college basketball landscape, Lopez influenced one of the nation's most lethal and multi-faceted offenses. In 2024-25, TCU finished as one of only three teams ranking in the top 10 in assists (5th, 696) assist-to-turnover ratio (6th, 1.53) and assists per game (8th, 18.6) in all of D1. The Hroned Frogs dished out at least 20 dimes in nearly half of its games (16-of-38). From behind the arc, TCU reached double figures in 3-pointers in 18 games, the second-most of any team, and was the only squad in the NCAA Tournament field boasting five players with at least 40 makes from distance.
Lopez helped coach the nation's third-highest scoring trio in 2024-25 in the form of Van Lith (17.9 ppg), Prince (17.6 ppg) and Conner (14.6 ppg), who netted a combined 50.1 points per game. He helped mentor Van Lith into the first player to win Big 12 Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year accolades in the same season, developed Prince into a Lisa Leslie Award top-five finalist and saw Conner join the duo on the All-Big 12 first team. Van Lith went on to become the fifth WNBA first round draft pick Lopez has worked with, going 11th overall to the Chicago Sky, whole Conner was taken in the third round by the Seattle Storm.
It became evident TCU landed a rising star in the profession just weeks into Lopez's first season at TCU.
Despite touching down in Fort Worth in April 2023 at the apex of recruiting season, Lopez helped assemble the top-ranked transfer class in the Big 12 and No. 11 overall class in the nation in the On3.com team transfer portal index. His recruiting efforts led to TCU landing Prince, Conner and consensus five-star point guard Jaden Owens. Following the conclusion of portal season, Lopez was named one of the nation's "50 Most Impactful High Major Assistants" by Silver Waves Media.
Lopez guided TCU to a 21-12 overall record, season-high AP top-25 ranking of 23rd and a second round appearance in the WBIT in 2023-24. With Lopez aiding the scout for all 33 opponents, TCU enjoyed a record-breaking 14-0 start to the season and produced the largest year-over-year win improvement (13 games) and winning percentage differential (.399) of any Power Six conference program. In total, 11 of the Horned Frogs' 21 victories came at the expense of top-100 teams in the NCAA NET Rankings.
He brought the spread pick-n-roll east from northern California, and the offensive formation paid immediate dividends. TCU averaged 81 points per game, led the nation in 3-point percentage differential (.170) and was third among all D1 programs in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.81) over its first 15 contests.
A rash of midseason injuries prompted open tryouts and forced Lopez to implement an entirely new offense, the 5-out motion. Despite having never previously ran the scheme, Lopez's contributions saw TCU average 10.4 threes per night and join National Champion South Carolina as one of only two teams ranking in the top-25 in 3-point percentage offense and defense over eight games. TCU went on to win five of its final seven ballgames in the regular season, slowly reinstalling the spread pick-n-roll.
With Lopez as TCU's offensive guru, TCU finished the year as one of only two teams to rank in the top-10 nationally in 3-pointers, 3-point percentage and 3-point percentage differential. Lopez also aided TCU in breaking school records for 3-pointers (312) and season assist average (16.7). TCU finished with the third-best 3-pointers per game average (9.5) in Big 12 history. Game-by-game, the Horned Frogs reached double figures in threes 16 times and produced an assist rate of 75 percent-or-better in 13 outings.
Sacramento State (2021-23)
Lopez helped facilitate one of the biggest two-year turnarounds in Division I basketball in his time at Sac State. He and Campbell inherited a program that concluded the 2020-2021 campaign 3-22 overall. With Lopez serving as the Hornets’ top assistant coach, the program enjoyed an 11-game year-over win improvement the following season. Lopez then spearheaded a season of firsts for Sac State in 2022-2023, guiding the Hornets to a school record 25 wins and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
At Sac State, Lopez again oversaw the spread pick-n-roll, which was one of the nation’s most efficient offenses. Last season, the Hornets led the NCAA in pick-n-rolls and finished 10th nationally in field goal percentage (46.5) and fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (38.5).
Oregon (2015-21)
Lopez played an integral role in leading Oregon to its most successful era on the hardwood. His time on the bench saw the Ducks notch five straight NCAA Tournament appearances, capture three Pac-12 regular season championships and two conference tournament titles and advance to the Final Four in 2019 for the first time in program history.
While in Eugene, Lopez assisted with scouting and recruiting, including leading the Ducks' international recruiting efforts. Under his watch, the Ducks were able to recruit Germany's Satou Sabally, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, and Spain's Maite Cazorla, the 23rd overall pick in 2019, to the pacific northwest.
Lopez also worked directly with the Oregon guards, overseeing a squad that led the nation in 3-point shooting in 2018-19, hitting 41.5 percent of its 3-point attempts, while ranking fourth in overall shooting at 50.1 percent.
Personal
Before transitioning to the coaching world, Lopez played professionally in Spain for six years for the Bilbao Basket in the prestigious ACB Spanish League among other clubs.
Prior to his professional career, Lopez competed collegiately at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon and at Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, from which he graduated in 2007.
He and his wife, Megan, reside in Fort Worth with their two daughters, Katie and Mikayla.
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