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| Olivia Miles (left) and Marta Suarez |
TCU's Olivia Miles, Marta Suarez and Taylor Bigby were selected in the 2026 WNBA Draft, which was held on Monday, April 13, in New York City. This is the most players TCU has had chosen in a WNBA Draft.
Miles, who was a graduate guard for the Horned Frogs during her lone season with TCU, was selected second overall in first round of the 2026 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. Miles is the highest WNBA draft pick in TCU women's basketball history.
The Lynx are based in and play their home games in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Suarez, who was a graduate forward in her only season with the Frogs, was selected 16th overall by the Seattle Storm, with the first pick in the second round. Seattle then traded its draft rights to Suarez and its 2028 second-round pick to Golden State for Flau'jae Johnson, whom Golden State had selected eighth overall in this draft.
Golden State plays its home games in San Francisco. The team's front office and practice facility are located in Oakland.
Bigby, a senior forward who played two seasons with the Horned Frogs, was selected 37th by Portland, which traded her to the Connecticut Sun for UConn's Serah Williams, whom the Sun had selected four slots earlier at 33rd.
The Sun is based in Uncasville, Connecticut. The team is the only major league professional sports team based in Connecticut, although there are those who would argue that the University of Connecticut's men's and women's basketball teams essentially are professional teams.
The Mohegan Sun Tribe reportedly has sold the Connecticut Sun and the team is posed to relocate to Houston, Texas. The Sun will play their sunset season in Connecticut before moving to Houston in 2027, where they will revive the Comets.
The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. Despite its success, the team was folded and disbanded by the league in 2008 during the height of the Great Recession because new ownership could not be found.
Connecticut's Azzi Fudd was the 2026 draft's overall number one pick, by the Dallas Wings. It is the second consecutive year that the Wings selected a former Connecticut player with the draft's number one pick. Last year, Dallas selected Paige Bueckers with the draft's first selection.
The UCLA Bruins, who won the 2026 Women's NCAA Championship, had a record five players drafted in the the 2026 draft's first round, and a record six players overall drafted.
The 2026 draft consisted of the WNBA's 15 teams making three selections each over three rounds, for a total of 45 players drafted.
Miles played one season at TCU, helping the Horned Frogs reach the NCAA Elite 8. She played four previous seasons with Notre Dame.
Suarez, who is Spanish, played one season at TCU. She joined Miles in helping the Horned Frogs reach the 2026 NCAA Elite 8. Prior to TCU, she played one season at the University of Tennessee and two seasons at the University of California. Suarez was the third Spaniard to be selected in the draft.
In last year's WNBA Draft, TCU guard Hailey Van Lith was the 11th overall pick, in the first round, by the Chicago Sky and TCU guard Madsion Conner was drafted 28th overall, in the third round, by the Seattle Storm. Van Lith and Conner teamed to help TCU reach the 2025 Elite 8, the first in TCU women's basketball history.
Prior to her one season at TCU, Van Lith played one season at LSU and three seasons at Louisville.
Conner played two seasons at TCU, transferring to the Horned Frogs from Tucson, where she played two seasons for the University of Arizona.
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| TCU head football coach Sonny Dykes |
Read Tom Burke's On SI Midnite Madness article about TCU head football coach Sonny Dykes receiving a contract extension and how during this off-season he has surrounded himself with new staff members, to hopefully continue his success with the Horned Frogs: here
Read all of Tom Burke's On SI Midnite Madness articles: here
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| Olivia Miles (left) and Marta Suarez |
The one-season Olivia Miles-Marta Suarez era of TCU women's basketball ended with a thud in a 78-52 Elite 8 loss to South Carolina, in Sacramento, California, on Monday, March 30.
No. 3-seed TCU raced out to an early eight-point lead over the No. 1-seed Gamecocks, but South Carolina masterfully won the game with a 34-point turnaround.
The Gamecocks are headed to their sixth consecutive Final Four, joining UConn, Texas and UCLA. It's the same Final Four teams from last season's Final Four, as the four powerhouses continue their dominance of women's college basketball.
On Friday, April 3, in Phoenix, Arizona, UConn, the defending national champion, will play South Carolina in one national semifinal, at 6 pm (Central), and Texas and UCLA will play each other in the other national semifinal, at 8:30 pm (Central).
The national championship game will be played on Sunday, April 5, in Phoenix.
For the second consecutive season, TCU's March Madness run ended in the Elite 8. Last year, No. 2-seed TCU lost to No. 1-seed Texas, 58-47, in an Elite 8 game.
TCU ends its season with a 32-6 record. With a 15-3 conference record, the Frogs won a second consecutive Big 12 regular-season championship.
In her final game as a Horned Frog, Miles, who is a graduate student, led TCU against South Carolina. She scored 18 points, but converted only six-of-20 field goal attempts, including three-of-six three-point attempts.
In her final game as a Horned Frog, Suarez, who is a graduate student, scored only nine points. She converted only four-of-17 field goal attempts, including one-of-eight three-point attempts.
Senior Taylor Bigby, who played her final game as a Horned Frog, was the only other TCU player who scored in double figures. She had 10 points.
Against the Gamecocks, the Frogs converted only 21-of-63 field goal attempts, including only seven-of-21 three-point attempts.
Four South Carolina players scored in double-figures. Forward Joyce Edwards led the Gamecocks with 24 points. She added 12 rebounds to record a double-double.
Leveraging their athletic and physical superiority, South Carolina outrebounded TCU 52 to 24 and outscored the Horned Frogs 21-6 in second-chance points.
TCU and South Carolina were two of five programs to reach the Elite Eight in consecutive seasons and two of six to post 30-win campaigns in 2024-25 and 2025-26. TCU and South Carolina were the only teams at the Power Conference level to repeat as regular season conference champions.
TCU-South Carolina box score: here
TCU postgame press conference: here
No. 3-seed TCU's women's basketball team defeated No. 10-seed Virginia 79-69 on Saturday, March 28, in a 2026 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen game in Sacramento, California, to advance to a second consecutive Elite 8, for the first time in program history.
The Horned Frogs will play No. 1-seed South Carolina in a Sacramento Regional Final game at 8 pm (Central) on Monday, March 30. ESPN will broadcast the game. The winner will advance to the Final Four.
TCU is the first Big 12 team since Baylor in 2021 to reach the Elite Eight in consecutive seasons.
Against Virginia, the Horned Frogs’ All-Big 12 duo of Olivia Miles and Marta Suarez combined for 61 points and scored or assisted on every TCU basket. Suarez scored a career-high 33 points. Miles added 28 points. Suarez and Miles had 10 rebounds each.
TCU, which has won 11 of its last 12 games, is 32-5. The Frogs joined Baylor as one of only two Big 12 teams to win 32 games or more in consecutive seasons. Last season, TCU finished with a record.
South Carolina, which is 34-3, advanced to the Elite 8 with a 94-68 victory over Oklahoma on March 28 in Sacramento.
South Carolina has gone to five straight Final Fours, winning two championships, in 2022 and 2024, during that run, under head coach Dawn Staley, who has guided the Gamecocks since 2008. South Carolina also won the national title in 2017.
The Gamecocks claimed the SEC regular-season championship 10 times and SEC tournament championship nine times between the 2013-14 season to the 2025-26 season.
South Carolina defeated TCU 85-52 at Dickies Arena on December 8, 2024, during the 2024-25 regular season. It is the only time the Gamecocks and the Horned Frogs have played each other.
TCU-Virginia box score: here
TCU-Virginia postgame press conference: here
TCU Elite Eight pregame press conference: here
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| Olivia Miles celebrates TCU's victory over Washington. -- Photo by Tom C. "Midnite" Burke |
Olivia Miles recorded a double-double and the No. 3-seed TCU women's basketball team completed a dramatic comeback in overtime to secure a 62-59 victory over the No. 6-seed Washington Huskies in the second round of the NCAA Tournament inside TCU's Schollmaier Arena, in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, March 22.
The Horned Frogs (31-5) advanced to their second consecutive Sweet 16 appearance, for the first time in program history.
In the NCAA Sweet 16 on Saturday, March 28, in Sacramento, California, TCU will face No. 10-seed Virginia (22-11), which upset No. 2-seed Iowa in double overtime in a second-round game that was played on Monday, March 23, in Iowa's Carver–Hawkeye Arena, in Iowa City, Iowa.
The time of TCU's game against Virginia is 6:30 pm (Central). ESPN will televise the game. The game will be broadcast on radio by KTCU 88.7 FM.
Virginia, which is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018, will be making its first Sweet 16 appearance in 26 years. The Cavaliers are the only double-digit seed remaining in the tournament, and they are the first team to make the Sweet 16 after playing in the First Four.
To advance to the first round of the tournament, Virginia won its First Four game, 77-75, over Arizona State. In the first round, the Cavaliers defeated No. 7-seed Georgia 82-73.
TCU trailed by as many as 10 points against Washington before the Horned Frogs erased an eight-point halftime deficit, caught the Huskies with 3:50 left in the game and eventually forced overtime with the game tied at 49-49.
Miles, a graduate guard, paced TCU with 18 points and 10 rebounds. In the game, Miles also set TCU’s single-season record for points. She has 698 points in the 2025-26 season, which surpasses Hailey Van Lith’s 680 points from the 2024-25 season.
Sophomore center Clara Silva scored 16 points. She also had eight rebounds and two blocks.
Senior guard Taylor Bigby added 15 points.
Graduate forward Marta Suarez scored nine points and collected eight rebounds.
Washington had four players who scored in double-figures. Sayvia Sellers led the Huskies with 18 points. Avery Howell scored 14 points.
TCU has achieved back-to-back undefeated seasons at home. The Frogs have a 44-game home-winning streak, which is the longest in the country.
TCU now needs to put together a two-game wining streak in Sacramento to achieve the program's first Final Four.
If the Frogs defeat Virginia, they either will play No. 1 seed South Carolina or No. 4 seed Oklahoma for the right to make the Final Four in Phoenix, Arizona.
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| TCU's Micah Robinson |
TCU ended its season with an overall record of 23-12 and a Big 12 Conference record of 11-7.
With the loss to Duke, the Horned Frogs fell one win short of advancing to the program’s first Sweet 16 trip since 1968, when the tournament consisted of 23 teams.
On Thursday, March 19, in Greensboro, TCU had beaten No. 8-seed Ohio State, 66-64, in the tournament's first round, to earn the right to play Duke, which in the first round beat Siena 71-65.
Against Duke, TCU trailed at the half, 38-34. Foul trouble, poor shooting and improved execution by the Blue Devils doomed the Horned Frogs in the second half.
Sophomore Micah Robinson led TCU with 18 points. He also scored 18 points against Ohio State.
