TCU Women's Basketball Defeats Virginia, 79-69, to Advance to Elite 8 of 2026 NCAA Tournament

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 

 

 

 

 

TCU Women's Basketball Defeats Washington, 62-59, in Overtime, to Advance to Sweet 16 of 2026 NCAA Tournament

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. 

 

No. 1 Duke Eliminates TCU's Men's Basketball, 81-58, in 2026 NCAA Tournament's Second Round

 

TCU's Micah Robinson

 

No. 9-seed TCU men's basketball fell 81-58 to overall No. 1 seed Duke in the second round of the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on Saturday, March 21, in Greensboro, South Carolina.

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.  

 

 

 

TCU Men's Basketball Defeats Ohio State, 66-64, in 2026 NCAA Tournament First-Round Game

TCU men’s basketball team of the Big 12 defeated Ohio State of the Big 10, 66 to 64, in a first-round NCAA Tournament game on Thursday, March 19, at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, in Greenville, South Carolina.

The Horned Frogs (23-11, 11-7 Big 12) will face No. 1 seed Duke in a Second Round game on Saturday, March 21, at 4:15 pm (Central). The game will be broadcast on TV by CBS. The radio broadcast will be available on 1190 AM KFXR. 

The winner of the TCU-Duke game will advance to the Sweet 16, to be played in the Capital One Center in Washington, D.C., on March 26 or March 27.

The Frogs' win over Ohio State was TCU’s first NCAA Tournament win since 2023. TCU improved to 8-11 all-time in NCAA Tournament games. 

TCU and Ohio State were tied 61-61 with 1:16 to play before sophomore forward Micah Robinson’s career-best fourth 3-pointer of the game gave TCU a 64-61 lead. The Buckeyes' all-time leading scorer Bruce Thornton hit a three-point shot to tie the game at 64-64 with 32 seconds remaining.

TCU junior forward Xavier Edmonds, who finished with 16 points and eight rebounds, took the basketball in the paint on a pass from sophomore forward David Punch and scored the game-winning basket with 4.3 seconds left in the game. Ohio State missed a desperation shot at the buzzer.

Robinson scored a game-high 18 points. Punch recorded his fifth double-double of the season with 16 points and a career-high tying 13 rebounds.

Postgame press conference: here  (press conference begins at the 12:15 mark)