TCU Women's Basketball Picked to Win Big 12; Miles Selected for Pair of Preseason Honors

The Horned Frogs will start the 2025-26 season on Nov. 6.

Head coach Mark Campbell 's TCU squad is the preseason favorite to win the Big 12. | Brian McLean - On Assignment Photo/KillerFrogs.com for TCU On SI

For the first time in program history, TCU women’s basketball is the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 Conference.

The Horned Frogs received 10 out of a possible 16 first-place votes and 219 total points in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Iowa State (202 points), Baylor (200 points), and Oklahoma State (186 points) each snagged two first-place votes. 

Starting this season where we finished last season ☝️

For the first time in school history, TCU has been picked first in the @Big12Conference Women's Basketball Preseason Coaches’ Poll! pic.twitter.com/Bi1LXlAXq7

— TCU Women’s Basketball (@tcuwbb) October 9, 2025

Guard Olivia Miles also received preseason honors as the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year and a unanimous Preseason All-Big 12 Team selection. 

Head coaches could not vote for their own team or players.

TCU won both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in 2024-25. If the Horned Frogs can snag the top spot again, they would become the conference’s first repeat champion within three years of finishing in last place. 

Since head coach Mark Campbell’s arrival in 2023, TCU leads college basketball with a combined year-over win differential of 26 games. The Horned Frogs finished last season with a 16-2 conference record just two years after going 1-17. 

Throughout Campbell’s four years as a head coach - dating back to his time at Sacramento State - his teams have met or outperformed their preseason conference projections. TCU was projected to finish fourth in the Big 12 last season before taking the conference crown.  

The Preseason All-Big 12 Team featured six unanimous selections. Alongside Miles in that club are Audi Crooks (Iowa State), Delaney Gibb (BYU), Stailee Heard (OSU), Darianna Littlepage-Buggs (Baylor) and S’Mya Nichols (Kansas). 

𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 pic.twitter.com/T4Z8tIuhNN

— TCU Women’s Basketball (@tcuwbb) October 9, 2025

Miles is the fifth Horned Frog to receive Preseason All-Big 12 Team recognition. Past honorees include Zahna Medley (2015), Amy Okonkwo (2018), Lauren Heard (2020) and Hailey Van Lith (2024). 

A 5-10 graduate transfer from Notre Dame, Miles is the active Division I leader in career assists per game (6.5), career assists (654) and triple doubles (six) and the only returning Division I player with at least 1,400 career points, 600 assists, 600 rebounds, 25 double-doubles and five triple-doubles. 

Transfer point guards, like Miles, have historically excelled under Campbell’s guidance. Campbell has coached three conference players of the year in four seasons as a head coach. All three players averaged better than 17 points and five assists per game in their only season with Campbell. Last season, Van Lith was named Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Year and became the first player in conference history to be named Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year in the same season.

TCU returns five players from a historic 2024-25 team. That team won a school-record 34 games, notched the university’s first NCAA Elite Eight appearance and finished No. 6 in the final Associated Press poll. 

The 2025-26 roster features nine newcomers, including six transfers, and leads college basketball in returning 3-point offense for the second straight season. TCU’s roster averaged 11.4 threes per game last season among qualified players. 

The Horned Frogs will tip off the 2025-26 season against North Carolina A&T on Nov. 6 at Schollmaier Arena. Big 12 play starts Dec. 20 with a home game versus Kansas State. 

Preseason Coaches' Poll

TCU (10 first place votes) – 219 points

Iowa State (2) – 202 points

Baylor (2) – 200 points

Oklahoma State (2) – 186 points

West Virginia – 161 points

Kansas – 156 points

K-State – 143 points

Utah – 115 points

Colorado – 114 points

BYU – 85 points

Arizona State – 84 points

Cincinnati – 82 points

Texas Tech – 63 points

Arizona – 47 points

Houston – 41 points

UCF – 22 points

Preseason Player of the Year

Audi Crooks, Iowa State

Preseason Newcomer of the Year

Olivia Miles, TCU

Preseason Freshman of the Year

Dee Alexander, Cincinnati

Preseason All-Big 12 Team

Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Baylor*

Bella Fontleroy, Baylor

Delaney Gibb, BYU*

Jade Masogayo, Colorado

Addy Brown, Iowa State

Audi Crooks, Iowa State*

S’Mya Nichols, Kansas*

Stailee Heard, Oklahoma State*

Olivia Miles, TCU*

Jordan Harrison, West Virginia

*indicates unanimous selection