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FORT WORTH – For the second straight year, all roads to the Big 12 title run through a regular season finale between TCU and Baylor.
Horned Frogs hunting a season sweep of Bears and outright Big 12 title
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FORT WORTH – For the second straight year, all roads to the Big 12 title run through a regular season finale between TCU and Baylor.
The 11th-ranked Horned Frogs clinched a share of the regular season championship on Wednesday. TCU will claim undisputed gold with a victory over No. 18 Baylor in a rivalry battle set for a 3 p.m. tip on Sunday at Schollmaier Arena.
The Frogs lead the Bears and No. 17 West Virginia by one game ahead of the marquee matchup. TCU defeated Baylor in Waco on Feb. 12 and swept the season series with the Mountaineers and is guaranteed the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Tournament, which runs from March 4-8 in Kansas City, Mo.
Prior to the action on the hardwood, ESPN College GameDay will broadcast live from 10-11 a.m. inside Schollmaier Arena. It marks the first time TCU men's or women's basketball has been selected to host the show and the inaugural appearance for Big 12 women's basketball.
The Game
Teams: #11 TCU (26-4 14-3 Big 12) vs. #18 Baylor (24-6, 13-4 Big 12)
Date: 3 p.m. CT on Sunday, March 1
Location: Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
Game Coverage
Television
ESPN
- Eric Frede, Play-by-Play
- Christy Thomaskutty, Analyst
KTCU 88.7 FM
- Chris Blake, Play-by-Play
- For the second straight year, TCU is engaging Baylor in the final game of the regular season with a chance to win an undisputed Big 12 regular season championship.
- Including Sunday's matchup, three of the last four battles between TCU and Baylor have levied conference championship implications. TCU beat Baylor in winner-take-all bouts for the 2025 Big 12 regular season and tournament titles.
- The balance of power in the TCU-Baylor rivalry has shifted. Baylor won 12 straight Big 12 titles from 2011-22 but TCU is now a two-time defending league champion after clinching a share of the conference championship on Wednesday in Cincinnati.
- TCU is enjoying a four-game winning streak at Baylor's expense. Prior to last season's 81-75 takedown of the Bears on Jan. 26, 2025 in Fort Worth, the Horned Frogs dropped 37 straight games to Baylor dating back to 1991.
- TCU and Baylor are facing off for the second time in the last 17 days. The Horned Frogs blew out the Bears 83-67 on Feb. 12 in Waco in the teams' first meeting. The victory ignited TCU's march to a second straight league title. TCU trailed Baylor by one game for first place in the conference standings ahead of tipoff. The wire-to-wire victory was the first in a present five-game winning streak that saw TCU take down its other closest competitor for the conference crown, No. 17 West Virginia, and a fully healthy Iowa State team in Schollmaier Arena.
- The Horned Frogs joined Baylor as one of four programs in Big 12 history to repeat as regular season champions with Wednesday's 83-70 victory at Cincinnati.
- TCU is the first team in the history of the Big 12 to win back-to-back regular season championships within three seasons of finishing in last place.
- The Horned Frogs repeated as league champions for the first time in any conference on the hardwood with Wednesday's victory.
- Picked to win the Big 12 in both the preseason coaches' and media polls, TCU has now met or exceeded its projected conference finish in 10 of its 14 seasons of Big 12 membership and all three years under head coach Mark Campbell.
- Campbell coached his 100th game at the helm of TCU hoops in last week's 80-73 win over Iowa State. Since his hire ahead of the 2023-24 season, Campbell ranks sixth among all Power Conference head coaches in wins (81) and win-loss percentage (.802).
- In his three seasons in Funky Town, Campbell has led TCU to an 81-20 record and 38 appearances in The Associated Press poll. In the three seasons preceding his hire, TCU went entirely unranked and competed to a 24-60 combined overall record.
- Looking strictly at the last two seasons, TCU ranks fifth among all D1 programs in win-loss percentage (.882) and total wins (60) since 2024-25.
- All-but-certain to earn their 11th NCAA Tournament berth, the Horned Frogs are also pulling for TCU men's basketball to make the Big Dance. TCU was included in the "Last Four Byes" section of ESPN's Joe Lunardi's latest bracketology. TCU men's and women's basketball have never competed in the NCAA Tournament in the same season.
- TCU is looking to finish undefeated at home in the regular season for the second straight year.
- The Frogs will match No. 4 Texas for the longest home winning streak in the country (42 games) with a win on Sunday.
- To be exact, 747 days will have passed since TCU last tasted defeat at Schollmaier Arena when the ball tips on Sunday. TCU's last home loss was on Feb. 13, 2024 vs. WVU.
- Across TCU's home winning streak, 32 of their 41 victories have been by double digits.
- TCU is allowing just 54.1 points per game at home in the Campbell era.
- The Horned Frogs have held 9-of-17 guests at Schollmaier Arena this season to 50 points or less.
- TCU has averaged 10 threes per game at home over the last three seasons. The Horned Frogs have reached double figures in deep balls in 46 percent of their home games (27-58) since 2023-24.
- TCU needs 59 threes to become only the eighth program to make 1,000 over a three-season span.
- The Horned Frogs top the Power Conference ranks in total 3-pointers over the last three seasons (941) by a sizeable margin. The next closest Power Conference team to matching TCU's 3-point output is Utah at 911 threes. After that, it's Iowa with 871.
- Since 2023-24, only Richmond (979) and Marshall (949) have connected from distance more times than TCU. The Horned Frogs and the Spiders are the only programs ranking in the top-10 nationally in 3-point field goals (3rd, 941), 3-point field goals per game (6th, 9.4) and 3-point percentage (8th, .368) since 2023-24.
- This season, TCU is the only team in the country with three players who have each made 55 threes in Marta Suarez (64), Olivia Miles (60) and Donovyn Hunter (55).
- Bringing Taylor Bigby into the fold, TCU is one of eight teams with four players who have all made at least 40 threes. Suarez, Miles, Hunter and Bigby (43) are responsible for 80 percent (219-275) of TCU's 3-point offense.
- Speaking of Miles, she is in the driver's seat to make TCU the first program in Big 12 history to produce the league's Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in consecutive seasons. Hailey Van Lith swept the pair of accolades in 2024-25 and Miles, the only player in college basketball averaging at least 20 points, six rebounds and six assists per game, appears poised to do the same.
- Campbell has developed a proven point guard factory. Miles is looking to join Van Lith and Sacramento State's Lianna Tillman and Kahlaijah Dean as the fourth point guard to garner conference player of the year accolades under Campbell's watch. Notably, all three of Campbell's past conference players of the year have been one-and-done transfers. Like Miles, all three players averaged better than 17 points and five assists per game in Campbell's spread pick-n-roll offense.
- Miles (20.1 ppg) and Suarez (17 ppg) are the country's fifth-highest scoring duo and one of only four pairs of teammates averaging at least 17 points per game.
- The tandem scored as many points as Baylor (67) in the Horned Frogs' 16-point win in Waco last month.
- The Baylor game was one of an NCAA-leading eight instances in which Miles and Suarez have both tallied at least 20 points and five rebounds in the same game.
- Miles and Suarez are also one the only duo nationwide averaging at least 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and two assists per game.
- TCU has benefitted from a 20-point performance by Miles, Suarez or Hunter in 21 games.
- Miles, Suarez and Hunter accounted for 63 of TCU's points on Wednesday at Cincinnati. That night and TCU's February victory over Baylor are two of five games where the three players have combined to score 60-plus. All three players have scored in double figures in 16 games.
- Either Miles or Suarez has finished with a double-double or a triple-double in 12 games.
- TCU notched its largest margin of victory in a ranked road matchup in program history in its 83-67 takedown of then-No. 12 Baylor in February.
- Miles scored 40 points in the victory, which were the most by any player in any game across the Division I landscape vs. a ranked team this season. She also became the first player in NCAA history to drill 10 threes vs. an AP Top 25 foe on the road and one of only two in NCAA history to do so vs. a ranked team in any game.
- Her joint effort with Suarez, who scored 27 points, was equally significant. Their 67 combined points were the most by a pair of teammates in a Big 12 game opposite a ranked opponent in league history. The two players became one of only two teammate tandems in college basketball to each tally 25-plus vs. a ranked team in the same game in 2025-26.
