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Horned Frogs Sign USC Transfer Bigby to 2024-25 Roster - TCU Athletics
FORT WORTH – Taylor Bigby, the No. 29 overall recruit in the class of 2021, is reuniting with head coach Mark Campbell and his staff at TCU.
GoFrogs: Horned Frogs Sign USC Transfer Bigby to 2024-25 Roster
FORT WORTH – Taylor Bigby, the No. 29 overall recruit in the class of 2021, is reuniting with head coach Mark Campbell and his staff at TCU.
Bigby signed a financial aid agreement to join TCU women's basketball as a redshirt junior for the 2024-25 season.
A 6-1 guard, Bigby spent the past two seasons at USC, earning 18 starts across 65 appearances. She signed with Oregon ahead of the 2021-22 campaign. Bigby was recruited by Campbell and associate head coach Xavier Lopez during their assistant coaching tenures in Eugene.
Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, Bigby was the top reserve on a USC team that won a Pac-12 Tournament title and advanced to the Elite Eight this past season. She averaged 4.6 points over 19 minutes per game in her two-year run with the Trojans.
A multifaceted player, Bigby ran point throughout high school and morphed into a combo guard in Los Angeles. Bigby often defended the opposing team's most talented scorer.
She shot 40 percent from the field and connected at a 37 percent clip behind the arc in 2023-24. Bigby ranked in the top-20 among all Pac-12 players in both 3-point percentage (12th) and 3-pointers per 40 minutes (2.1, 18th). She knocked down multiple threes in 10 contests.
Bigby played in 34 of 35 games and earned 11 starts – five of which came in Pac-12 play – this past season. She received the starting nod in USC's final six nonconference games.
She scored in double figures three times. Bigby netted a season-high 15 points on 5-8 shooting from downtown on Dec. 18 vs. Cal State Fullerton and followed up with an 11-point effort three days later against Long Beach State. She contributed 14 points at No. 3 Colorado on Jan. 21.
Bigby again served as the Trojans' sixth player as a redshirt freshman in 2022-23. She averaged 18 minutes, 4.4 points and 1.6 rebounds per game while making seven starts. Bigby delivered three double-digit scoring performances, highlighted by a career-high 21 points in her first collegiate start vs. Merrimack. She played a career-high 39 minutes and went 3-3 from distance in the Trojans' upset win over No. 2 Stanford on Jan. 15, 2023. Bigby ranked third on the squad in 3-pointers (22).
Injuries limited Bigby to just nine appearances during her lone season at Oregon.
Bigby was a consensus four-star recruit coming out of Centennial High School. She led Centennial to a trio of state championships and repeated as Nevada Gatorade Player of the Year from 2020-21. She was also a finalist for the national Gatorade Player of the Year award in 2020 and was selected to the watch list for the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy for High School Girls' Player of the Year in 2021. As a junior in 2019-20, Bigby averaged 10.4 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.8 steals per game in leading Centennial to a sixth straight state title. She was honored as USA Today Nevada Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2018-19 while also garnering her first of three sets of first team All-State accolades.
Bigby will have two years to play two seasons at TCU.
She is the first transfer player TCU has signed this offseason. The Horned Frogs' roster stands at eight players following Bigby's addition. She joins a guard room featuring seniors Madison Conner, Agnes Emma-Nnopu and Una Jovanovic along with Knisha Godfrey, who will be a junior after redshirting the 2023-24 campaign. TCU also returns All-Big 12 center Sedona Prince and junior posts Aaliyah Roberson and DaiJa Turner.
TCU anticipates announcing additional signees over the coming weeks.
