TCU's Van Lith, Prince and Conner Earn All-Big 12 Women's Basketball Awards

(from left to right) Sedona Prince, Hailey Van Lith and Madison Conner

After winning the Big 12 regular-season championship on Sunday, March 2, with a 51-48 victory over Baylor in Waco, the TCU women's basketball team has achieved a historic all-conference awards haul.

TCU guard Hailey Van Lith is the Big 12 Player of the Year and the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.

TCU second-year head coach Mark Campbell is Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Van Lith, who is in her first and final year at TCU, also was named to the All-Big 12 First Team, along with TCU center Sedona Prince and TCU guard Madison Conner, who are in their second and final year with TCU. Van Lith and Prince were two of four unanimous honorees.

Prince also was a unanimous pick for the All-Big 12 Defensive Team.

Awards were finalized following a vote of the league's 16 head coaches, who could not select their own players or themselves.

Van Lith is the first player in the conference's 28-year history to win Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year awards in the same season. She became TCU's first conference player of the year in any league since Helena Sverrisdóttir claimed the crown in the Mountain West in 2010. Van Lith is one of four players in program history to be named conference player of the year alongside Sandora Irvin (2005, Conference USA) Adrianne Ross (2007, Mountain West) and Sverrisdóttir.

Van Lith averaged 17.6 points, 5.4 assists and 4.2 rebounds. She was the only player in the league to finish in the top 10 in points per game (sixth), assists per game (fourth) and assist-to-turnover ratio (10th, 2.0). Ahead of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, Van Lith is one of only 11 players in the country with a 2-1 assist-to-turnover ratio and at least 165 assists to her name.

Campbell orchestrated the greatest turnaround in college basketball. Under his leadership, TCU became one of only two teams in conference history to win an undisputed Big 12 Championship within two years of finishing in last place. Campbell became the first Big 12 head coach to capture a league championship in his/her first two seasons in the conference. TCU's jump of 10 regular season conference victories from last season (six) to this season (16) is the largest in Division I basketball.

Through Campbell's leadership, TCU has notched the largest combined year-over-year win improvement of any Power Conference head coach over the last two seasons at 20 games. On March 3, Campbell's squad achieved a national No. 8 ranking, which is the highest AP Top 25 ranking in TCU basketball history. Along the way in 2024-25, TCU has set program records for total wins and Big 12 victories and finished undefeated at home (19-0) in the regular season.

Campbell is the first Big 12 head coach to be honored as Coach of the Year within two years of joining the conference. He joined TCU all-time women's basketball wins leader Jeff Mittie as one of only two coaches in program history to receive a conference coach of the year accolade.

Prince and Conner are now two-time All-Big 12 players.

Prince led the league and ranks third nationally in shot-blocking (93 blocks, 3.1 blocks-per-game). She has finished with three-plus blocks in 16 games, the third-most of any D1 player.

Prince is one of only two Division I players averaging at least 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks per game. She tallied 13 double-doubles, including a conference-leading nine in Big 12 action.

Prince became one of 10 active D1 players to record at least 1,400 career points, 700 rebounds and 200 blocks in TCU's championship-clinching victory over Baylor.

Conner has been the best shooter in college basketball. She leads the nation in 3-pointers (108) and is second in 3-pointers per game (3.5). Conner is on track to become only the third Big 12 player to finish as the D1 leader in 3-pointers at season's end.

The 5-11 guard connected at a 45 percent clip 56-124) in league play. She broke her own program record for most 3-pointers in a season and became the all-time leader for career 30-point games (five) in the history of TCU men's and women's basketball. Conner leads the nation in games with at least four 3-pointers (17).

TCU enters the Big 12 Championship Tournament in Kansas City as the No. 1 seed and in possession of a double bye into the quarterfinals. The Horned Frogs take the court at 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, and will face No. 8-seed Arizona, No. seed Colorado or No. 16-seed Houston, depending on results from the opening rounds.