{"id":229212,"date":"2026-03-20T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:45:09","slug":"olivia-miles-gets-triple-double-as-tcu-beats-uc-san-diego-in-1st-round-of-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229212\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Miles gets triple-double as TCU beats UC San Diego in 1st round of March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 Olivia Miles had her 12th career triple-double with 12 points and career highs of 16 rebounds and 14 assists as third-seeded TCU beat UC San Diego 86-40 in a first-round NCAA Tournament<\/a> game on Friday, giving the Horned Frogs their 43rd consecutive win at home.<\/p>\n

Miles has the assists on the first four baskets for the Frogs as they went ahead to stay, going up 11-2 in the first 2:02 of the game. They scored the final 19 points of the game to make the final score the largest margin. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou saw within the first four minutes of the game the pep, the pop she played with. I mean she was in attack mode,\u201d TCU coach Mark Campbell said. \u201cWhen Olivia\u2019s like that, our team feeds off it and we\u2019re at a whole different level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor Bigby added a career-high 27 points on 8-of-10 shooting with seven 3-pointers for TCU (30-5), which also got double-doubles from Clara Silva (13 points, 11 rebounds) and Marta Suarez (11 points, 10 rebounds). <\/p>\n

Miles became only the third player to twice have triple-doubles<\/a> in women\u2019s NCAA Tournament games, with her other coming while at Notre Dame in 2022. She came out of the game right after her 3-pointer with 4:50 left for a 74-40 lead. Her 14 assists set TCU\u2019s single-game record, matching her best set at Notre Dame. <\/p>\n

She already had a double-double at halftime with 10 rebounds and 10 assists, to go along with four points when TCU led 48-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different sense of urgency that I came with and I promised myself that I\u2019d help my team out in any way that I can,\u201d Miles said. \u201cI know that it starts with me, and attacking the glass early so I have the ball in my hands and I can control it was favorable for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erin Condron had 12 points to lead UC San Diego (24-9), which under coach Heidi VanDerveer has made the NCAA Tournament<\/a> in both seasons since gaining full Division I postseason eligibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if the score indicated how hard that we played, but the basket got big for them, and obviously they\u2019re an excellent team,\u201d VanDerveer said. \u201cThey have a tremendous point guard. They have shooters that spread us out, bigs inside, very complete team.\u201d<\/p>\n

At home in March<\/p>\n

TCU is hosting NCAA games at home for the second season in a row, after not making the tournament since 2010 before that.<\/p>\n

While there were some empty seats at Schollmaier Arena, it was a solid and loud crowd for a Friday game that started at 11 a.m. local time. The place will be certainly be packed Sunday. <\/p>\n

Other triple-doubles<\/p>\n

The last women\u2019s NCAA Tournament triple-double was Caitlin Cark for Iowa against Louisville on March 26, 2023, when she had 41 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Ionescu with Oregon in 2018 and 2019, and Nicole Powell for Stanford in back-to-back games in 2002 are the other players with multiple triple-doubles in the NCAA Tournament. Miles\u2019 first one came with Notre Dame in 2022, when she had 12 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in a first-round game against Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

TCU will look to advance to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row when it plays sixth-seeded Washington, which beat South Dakota State 72-54<\/a> in the other first-round game in Fort Worth on Friday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP March Madness bracket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ncaa-womens-bracket<\/a> and coverage: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/march-madness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 Olivia Miles had her 12th career triple-double with 12 points and career highs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2454,104126,7,104120,4213,1327,27996,71295,53555,104122,104125,104121,34449,104124,104127,31229,16137,74,76,75,104123,36927,127,104119,564,104118,554,29836,567,558,26102,8859],"class_list":["post-229212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-basketball","tag-caitlin-cark","tag-california","tag-clara-silva","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-erin-condron","tag-heidi-vanderveer","tag-march-madness-ncaa-tournament","tag-mark-campbell","tag-marta-suarez","tag-ncaa-womens-division-i-basketball-championship","tag-ncaa-womens-bracket","tag-nicole-powell","tag-olivia-miles","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sd-state-wire","tag-south-dakota","tag-sports","tag-taylor-bigby","tag-texas","tag-texas-christian-horned-frogs","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-uc-san-diego-tritons","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-womens-college-basketball","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}