No. 12 TCU women’s basketball puts its 40-game home win streak on the line Sunday vs. Iowa State with the Big 12 title within reach.
FORT WORTH - TCU women’s basketball has turned Schollmaier Arena into a fortress. Now the Horned Frogs are one win away from making history ... again.
No. 12 TCU (24-4, 12-3 Big 12) welcomes Iowa State on Sunday in a showdown that could push the Frogs to the brink of back-to-back Big 12 regular-season championships.
A victory would stretch TCU’s home winning streak to 41 games, the longest in the nation, and move Mark Campbell’s squad closer to another banner in Fort Worth.
The Frogs have been suffocating at home, giving up just 53.8 points per game in their own building.
Opponents are shooting a nation-low 33.4 percent against TCU this season, and 13 teams have failed to crack even 30 percent from the floor. That defensive dominance has fueled one of the most efficient two-way teams in college basketball.
TCU is one of only two programs nationally averaging at least 75 points per game while allowing 55 or fewer.
Sunday’s matchup also features two of the biggest stars in the Big 12.
Olivia Miles continues to stuff the stat sheet unlike anyone in the country, averaging 20.1 points, six assists, six rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.
She’s joined by Marta Suarez (16.4 ppg) and Donovyn Hunter (11.8 ppg), forming one of the nation’s most productive trios at 48.3 combined points per contest.
Miles and Suarez alone average 36.5 points and have combined for 67 in a single game against a ranked opponent this season.
Across the floor stands Iowa State’s Audi Crooks, the preseason conference player of the year and the Big 12’s leading scorer with 661 total points.
Crooks and Miles, teammates on Team USA’s gold-medal squad at the FIBA AmeriCup, now meet as rivals with player-of-the-year implications on the line.
TCU’s balance is just as dangerous from deep. Suarez (59 3s), Miles (56), Hunter (52) and Taylor Bigby (38) account for 78 percent of the Frogs’ perimeter offense, as TCU averages 10 made 3s per game at home over the past three seasons.
With Campbell approaching his 100th game as head coach and the NCAA Tournament looming, Sunday feels like more than a conference matchup. It feels like a measuring stick — and another chance for TCU to prove Fort Worth runs through purple.