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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