Red-Hot First Half Lifts No. 8 TCU Past Richmond 68-52

Thursday, November 27

Cancun, Mexico

8 PM

TCU

7-0,0-0Big 12

Richmond

5-2,0-0Atlantic 10

Richmond

TCU

Red-Hot First Half Lifts No. 8 TCU Past Richmond 68-52

11/27/2025 10:50:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Horned Frogs outscored Spiders 49-23 over the opening 20 minutes

CANCUN, Mexico – A first half surge carried No. 8 TCU to a comfortable 68-52 victory over Richmond on Thursday to begin the Cancun Challenge.

The Horned Frogs raced out to a 49-23 halftime lead and maintained a double-digit advantage for more than 30 minutes of the ballgame.

Marta Suarez single-handedly outscored Richmond in the first half.

Suarez tallied all of her game-high 24 points over the first two periods. The reigning Big 12 Player of the Week, Suarez hit her first nine shots from the field, including six from behind the arc.

Olivia Miles led the Frogs from bell to bell with 19 points, eight rebounds and six assists.

Donovyn Hunter pitched in 12 points to give TCU three double digit scorers while Clara Silva finished with eight points and matched Miles for the game high on the glass.

TCU improved to 7-0 on the year while Richmond, the defending Atlantic 10 champions, dropped to 5-2. The Horned Frogs earned their second win over a team that reached the round of 32 of the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

The first half might as well have been an offensive blitzkrieg.

TCU began the game 15-25 from the floor and 6-8 behind the arc and had the Spiders doubled up at 42-21 with 2:52 to go. Suarez's sixth 3-pointer stretched the lead to 24 points before Miles scored four straight to put the Frogs ahead by 26.

Suarez poured in 12 points in the opening period to stake TCU to an early 24-15 edge. She had five 3-pointers to her name before the second media timeout arrived. At that point, TCU led 35-19. Miles accounted for seven of the Frogs' final 13 points in the half.

TCU outscored the Spiders 25-8 in the second quarter.

Richmond cut TCU's lead down to 63-50 with 5:04 remaining, prompting head coach Mark Campbell to whistle for time.

Hunter promptly drilled a 3-pointer – her second of the half – from the right baseline. TCU did not allow a field goal the rest of the way following the timeout.

The Spiders held TCU to a season-low 19 second half points. The Horned Frogs shot just 29 percent (8-28) out of the locker room.

Clara Bielefeld was a sparkplug in the third quarter. The freshman scored five points and added a block in the frame. Bielefeld, from Recklinghausen, Germany, logged 12 minutes in the second half.

TCU held Richmond to season lows in points, assists (11) and 3-pointers (six). The Spiders entered the contests averaging 74.4 points and 10.6 threes per night.

Richmond was led by 23 points and seven rebounds from Maggie Doogan.

Up Next
TCU concludes its stay on the Yucatan Peninsula with a 6:30 p.m. tilt on Friday vs. UAB (3-3). The Horned Frogs and Blazers last squared off in 2005, when both programs were members of the Conference USA. TCU is 4-0 all-time vs. UAB.

Team Notes

TCU won its third game on the Thanksgiving holiday and second in the last three seasons.
The Horned Frogs improved to 10-3 in neutral site affairs and 5-0 over Thanksgiving weekend under Mark Campbell.
TCU moved to 7-8 all-time in games played outside the United States.
The Frogs are now 4-4 when competing on Mexican soil.
TCU extended its winning streak in the month of November to 23 games.
TCU is now 31-1 in nonconference play over the last three seasons.
Thursday's win over Richmond sent TCU to its to its third straight 7-0 start to a season and fourth in program history.
TCU won its 15^th consecutive game over an unranked team.
The Horned Frogs still have yet to lose to a team outside the Power Conference ranks 78 games into Campbell's tenure.
TCU's 49 first half points were its second most all season.
The Frogs finished with 11 turnovers, their second-fewest in a game thus far.
The Horned Frogs have now led wire-to-wire in five of their seven victories.
TCU drained at least nine 3-pointers for 48^th time in the last three years.
Every team TCU has faced this season has failed to meet its season scoring average.
TCU led at halftime for the 34^th time in its last 36 outings.

Individual Notes

Miles recorded her 700^th career assist with her first dime of the ballgame.
Miles finished with at least 15 points and five assists for the seventh straight game, the second-longest streak to begin a season Power Conference player.
Should Miles finish with 15 points and five assists vs. the Blazers, she will match Maryland's Kristi Toliver's run of eight consecutive 15-point, five-assist games at the outset of the 2007-08 campaign for the longest season-opening streak in in NCAA history at the Power Conference level.
Miles and Hunter both scored in double figures for the seventh straight outing.
Miles has finished with at least 18 points and six assists in three straight games.
Miles has produced a 3-1 assist-to-turnover ratio across TCU's last three wins.
Suarez came three points shy of matching her career high.
Suarez has now led TCU in scoring in four straight ballgames.
Suarez's 24 first half points were the most scored by a TCU player in a game's first 20 minutes in the Campbell era.
Suarez has scored at least 19 points in all-but-one game.
Suarez is now shooting 54 percent from the floor and 46 percent from deep.
Hunter scored in double figures in consecutive road or neutral site affairs for the first time in her career.
Silva snagged at least eight rebounds for the sixth time this season.
Bielefeld's five points were a career high.
Campbell-led teams are 7-0 in Thanksgiving holiday tournaments dating back to his second-and-final season as Sacramento State's head coach in 2022-23.
Campbell boosted his career head coaching record in neutral site affairs to 16-5.