A Special Year For TCU Women’s Hoops
TCU women’s basketball is still being priced and talked about like a “nice story,” when the reality is they’re building a championship-level profile right in front of everyone. Yes, UConn is the clear gold standard — the best team in the country by a wide margin — but we’ve already explained why the value is no longer with the Huskies. When the market fully catches up, your edge is gone. The better question is: who can actually hang with UConn when the games get heavy in March?
For us, the answer is simple: we’ll take TCU over anyone in the country except UConn.
The Horned Frogs have been the rare team that looks both talented and mature. They’re undefeated, sitting comfortably in the top 10, and playing with a calm confidence that usually shows up only in veteran groups. And it starts with Olivia Miles, who has been flat-out elite. She’s not just filling the box score — she’s controlling games. The triple-doubles are the headline, but the real story is how effortless she makes it look: she dictates pace, she sees every rotation early, and she turns possessions into high-percentage outcomes.
Just as important: spending an entire season with Mark Campbell is exactly what her career needed. Campbell’s teams don’t just “run stuff.” They play with structure, they play with purpose, and they get better as the year goes. You can feel it in TCU’s spacing, decision-making, and composure. That’s coaching translating directly into winning possessions.
And it’s not just Miles. The talent doesn’t stop there — the first six are legitimately strong, with multiple players who can defend, rebound, and score without needing the offense to revolve around them. That matters in the tournament, because one-star teams die the second the star has an off shooting night. TCU doesn’t have that problem. They’ve got balance, size, and real physicality. Historically, these Frogs are big — and they play big. They rebound, they contest, they make opponents feel every cut and every drive.
The one question mark is depth beyond that top group. When you get into late February and March, foul trouble and fatigue can expose thin rotations. But if you’re making a list of teams that look like a Final Four team right now, TCU is on it. And when the national media finally catches up, they’re going to act surprised — like this came out of nowhere.
It didn’t. This is what an elite coach looks like when the talent matches the vision. Mark Campbell is that guy, and TCU is the proof.
