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Miles Tabbed a Midseason Top-10 Candidate for Nancy Lieberman Award - TCU Athletics
FORT WORTH – Olivia Miles took another step toward claiming the highest honor at her position.
Miles Tabbed a Midseason Top-10 Candidate for Nancy Lieberman Award
Lone D1 player averaging 19 points, seven rebounds and seven assists per gameFORT WORTH – Olivia Miles took another step toward claiming the highest honor at her position.
The 5-10 guard was announced as a midseason top-10 candidate for the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Miles has now received midseason consideration for the award in each of her last three seasons on the court. She was a top-five finalist for the accolade in 2024-25 and cracked the top-10 midseason watch list in 2022-23.
TCU has now produced a midseason candidate for the Lieberman Award in consecutive seasons. Hailey Van Lith was tabbed to the top-10 watch list in 2024-25.
Miles was the lone Big 12 player to crack the candidates list.
The New Jersey native is on pace to become the first NCAA men's or women's player to average at least 19 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 50 percent from the floor. She ranks sixth in the country in assists per game (7.0) and total assists (161) through 23 games in the 2025-26 campaign. Miles has increased her scoring average to 19.6 points per game in Big 12 play and has led TCU in scoring in 10 of its 11 conference contests. She continues to lead the country with four triple-doubles and tops the D1 ranks in career assists per game average (6.6), triple-doubles (10) and '15-5-5' games (37).
Miles' lone season in purple and white has featured a litany of notable performances. She notched all four of her triple-doubles across a five-game span in December, joining Sabrina Ionescu as one of only two players in NCAA history to post four triple-doubles in a single month. Miles dished out her 800th career assist in the Horned Frogs' 67-50 win at UCF on Jan. 24, becoming only the sixth women's player to tally at least 1,500 career points, 800 assists and 700 rebounds. She posted her NCAA-leading 50th career 15-point, five-assist performance in TCU's victory against Kansas on Thursday.
The midseason top-10 list will be narrowed to five players in mid-March. The five finalists will be presented to Lieberman and the Basketball Hall of Fame selection committee to determine a winner ahead of the 2026 NCAA Women's Final Four in Phoenix, Arizona.
Fans are encouraged to participate in fan voting for the remaining rounds on hoophallawards.com, beginning on Feb. 6. The fan vote counts as one committee vote during the finalist selection process.
Nancy Lieberman Award Midseason Top-10 Candidates
Zoe Brooks (NC State)
Aaliyah Chavez (Oklahoma)
Rori Harmon (Texas)
Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame)
Raven Johnson (South Carolina)
Liv McGill (Florida)
Olivia Miles (TCU)
Tonie Morgan (Kentucky)
Britt Prince (Nebraska)
Kiki Rice (UCLA)
