Olivia Miles adds the Big 12’s top individual honor to a monster TCU legacy while starring as a WNBA rookie and All-Star starter for Minnesota this year in '26.
Olivia Miles didn’t spend forever at TCU, but she didn’t need long to leave a dent in Big 12 women’s basketball history.
The former Horned Frogs point guard, now lighting it up for the Minnesota Lynx, has been named a 2025-26 Bob Bowlsby Award winner - the Big 12 Conference’s highest individual honor.
That’s not some participation trophy. It’s the league’s premier award for athletic dominance, leadership and work beyond the scoreboard. And Miles checks every box with a permanent marker.
Her one season in Fort Worth was ridiculous. TCU repeated as outright Big 12 regular-season champion and reached the Elite Eight for the second straight year, with Miles running the whole operation like she had the remote control.
She was named Big 12 Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, landed on major All-America teams and became a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award.
The numbers still look fake. Miles averaged 19.6 points per game and became the first college basketball player to average at least 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists and 1.5 steals while shooting 48 percent from the field.
She finished with 744 points, 252 assists and a 6.6 assists-per-game average, all single-season TCU records.
And the triple-doubles? She had six, the most ever in a season or career by a Big 12 player.
Miles also became the only player in the country to stack at least 600 points, 200 rebounds, 200 assists and 50 steals. That’s not star production. That’s takeover production.
What makes the Bowlsby Award hit even harder is the academic side. Miles, who already earned two undergraduate degrees at Notre Dame, posted a 3.75 GPA in TCU’s Master of Liberal Arts program and earned first-team Academic All-America recognition.
Now she’s doing the same thing in the WNBA — just faster than expected. The Lynx selected Miles No. 2 overall, and she’s already averaging 18.5 points, 5.7 assists and 4.8 rebounds while helping Minnesota to a 15-5 start. She’s also a 2026 WNBA All-Star starter, the only rookie picked to start.
TCU got one year of Olivia Miles. One year was enough to make history.
