{"id":214233,"date":"2026-03-21T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:35:15","slug":"olivia-miles-shines-in-tcus-womens-march-madness-1st-round-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214233\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Miles Shines in TCU&#8217;s Women&#8217;s March Madness 1st Round Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Miles posted her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/recap?gameId=401856501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">12th career triple-double<\/a> as No. 3 seed TCU toppled No. 14 seed UC San Diego 86-40 in the 2026 Women&#8217;s March Madness first round on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Miles finished the win with 12 points, 16 rebounds, and 14 assists, marking career highs in both rebounds and assists for the high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/ncaa-transfer-portal-keeps-spinning-as-womens-basketball-stars-miles-latson-join-new-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TCU transfer<\/a>. What&#8217;s more, her 14 assists set a new TCU single-game record.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-5 Horned Frogs extended their <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/can-a-no-3-seed-run-the-womens-march-madness-bracket-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">home winning streak<\/a> to 43 games, after jumping ahead early in the first quarter and failing to trail for the rest of the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Bigby led TCU with a career-high 27 points, while Clara Silva added 13 points and 11 rebounds, and <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/tcu-cracks-top-10-as-ap-poll-reflects-2025-26-ncaa-basketball-upsets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marta Suarez<\/a> contributed 11 points and 10 rebounds. Three TCU players recorded double-doubles in the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Miles already had a double-double at halftime with 10 rebounds and 10 assists to complement four points, as TCU led 48-25 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Miles became only the third player with <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/wnba-draft-prospects-2024-2025-caitlin-clark-cameron-brink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">multiple triple-doubles<\/a> in Women&#8217;s March Madness history, having previously recorded her with Notre Dame in 2022. In that <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/ncaa-womens-basketball-tournament-march-madness-upsets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NCAA tournament<\/a>, she registered 12 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists against Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/how-sabrinas-game-translates-to-the-wnba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> (Oregon, 2018-2019) and Nicole Powell (Stanford, 2002) are the only other players with multiple NCAA Tournament triple-doubles.<\/p>\n<p>The last women&#8217;s NCAA Tournament triple-double came from <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/caitlin-clark-iowa-womens-basketball-final-four-top-games-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Iowa alum Caitlin Clark<\/a> against Louisville in 2023, when Clark posted 41 points, 10 rebounds, and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Condron led 24-9 UC San Diego with 12 points, after the Tritons secured a Women&#8217;s March Madness berth for the second straight season under coach <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/heidi-vanderveer\/1919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Heidi VanDerveer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next for TCU&#8217;s Olivia Miles in the Women&#8217;s March Madness Bracket<\/p>\n<p>TCU will face the winner of Friday&#8217;s Washington vs. South Dakota State game in the NCAA tournament&#8217;s second round, where the Horned Frogs look to advance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/top-march-madness-seeds-advance-to-ncaa-tournaments-sweet-16-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sweet 16<\/a> for the second straight year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Miles posted her 12th career triple-double as No. 3 seed TCU toppled No. 14 seed UC San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81104,83884,116,118,117,29194,35108,62069],"class_list":["post-214233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-2026-march-madness","tag-2026-ncaa-tournament","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-olivia-miles","tag-tcu-basketball","tag-uc-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}