Campbell Named to Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List
2/19/2025 1:07:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Is one of 15 head coaches receiving consideration
FORT WORTH – TCU women's basketball head coach Mark Campbell is a frontrunner for the most prestigious award in his profession.
Campbell was named to the Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List for the first time in his career on Wednesday.
He was one of 15 coaches selected as determined by members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Campbell was one of two Big 12 head coaches to receive consideration alongside Kansas State's Jeff Mittie.
Under Campbell's leadership, TCU has compiled a 24-3 overall record and 12-2 mark in league play ahead of Wednesday's tilt at Arizona State. The Horned Frogs are tied for first in the Big 12 standings with four regular season games remaining.
TCU occupies the No. 10 slot in both The Associated Press poll and NCAA NET rankings. The Frogs were projected as the No. 9 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament in the first early reveal of the top-16 seeds by the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee. That placement is good for a No. 3 seed in the Big Dance and would give TCU the opportunity to host first and second round games for the first time ever.
With Campbell at the helm, TCU has enjoyed the greatest two-year turnaround in college basketball. Campbell inherited a program fresh off a 1-17 finish in Big 12 play upon his hire in March of 2023. Since then, Campbell has produced the largest combined year-over-year win improvement of any coach at the Power Conference level at 16 games. TCU has also notched the best year-over conference win percentage improvement (.522) of any Power Conference team.
The Horned Frogs have achieved a litany of program milestones in 2024-25. After beginning the season unranked, TCU has since achieved its highest AP Top 25 mark in program history, slotting in at No. 9 in four polls, and is currently enjoying a record streak of 12 consecutive top 15 rankings. TCU has earned a single season record four ranked victories and holds a victory over current national No. 1 Notre Dame. Campbell will become the first TCU basketball coach to win a Big 12 Championship should the Frogs finish atop the league standings or cut down the nets at the conference tournament in Kansas City.
TCU is two victories away from notching a program record for total wins and are enjoying the longest single-season home winning streak in school history (17 games). Campbell's squad has inspired 51,157 fans to visit Schollmaier Arena, already good for a 15 percent increase in total fan attendance from last season with two home games still on the docket. TCU also drew its largest crowd in 10 seasons when 5,478 spectators observed the Horned Frogs win over Texas Tech on Feb. 8 and set a program student attendance record (562) vs. UCF on Jan. 14.
Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List
Geno Auriemma, UConn
Kenny Brooks, Kentucky
Kim Caldwell, Tennessee
Mark Campbell, TCU
Cori Close, UCLA
Nell Fortner, Georgia Tech
Lindsay Gottlieb (USC)
Niele Avey, Notre Dame
Kevin McGuff, Ohio State
Jeff Mittie, Kansas State
Wes Moore, NC State
Kim Mulkey, LSU
Shea Ralph, Vanderbilt
Vic Schaefer, Texas
Dawn Staley, South Carolina
Campbell was named to the Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List for the first time in his career on Wednesday.
He was one of 15 coaches selected as determined by members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Campbell was one of two Big 12 head coaches to receive consideration alongside Kansas State's Jeff Mittie.
Under Campbell's leadership, TCU has compiled a 24-3 overall record and 12-2 mark in league play ahead of Wednesday's tilt at Arizona State. The Horned Frogs are tied for first in the Big 12 standings with four regular season games remaining.
TCU occupies the No. 10 slot in both The Associated Press poll and NCAA NET rankings. The Frogs were projected as the No. 9 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament in the first early reveal of the top-16 seeds by the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee. That placement is good for a No. 3 seed in the Big Dance and would give TCU the opportunity to host first and second round games for the first time ever.
With Campbell at the helm, TCU has enjoyed the greatest two-year turnaround in college basketball. Campbell inherited a program fresh off a 1-17 finish in Big 12 play upon his hire in March of 2023. Since then, Campbell has produced the largest combined year-over-year win improvement of any coach at the Power Conference level at 16 games. TCU has also notched the best year-over conference win percentage improvement (.522) of any Power Conference team.
The Horned Frogs have achieved a litany of program milestones in 2024-25. After beginning the season unranked, TCU has since achieved its highest AP Top 25 mark in program history, slotting in at No. 9 in four polls, and is currently enjoying a record streak of 12 consecutive top 15 rankings. TCU has earned a single season record four ranked victories and holds a victory over current national No. 1 Notre Dame. Campbell will become the first TCU basketball coach to win a Big 12 Championship should the Frogs finish atop the league standings or cut down the nets at the conference tournament in Kansas City.
TCU is two victories away from notching a program record for total wins and are enjoying the longest single-season home winning streak in school history (17 games). Campbell's squad has inspired 51,157 fans to visit Schollmaier Arena, already good for a 15 percent increase in total fan attendance from last season with two home games still on the docket. TCU also drew its largest crowd in 10 seasons when 5,478 spectators observed the Horned Frogs win over Texas Tech on Feb. 8 and set a program student attendance record (562) vs. UCF on Jan. 14.
Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List
Geno Auriemma, UConn
Kenny Brooks, Kentucky
Kim Caldwell, Tennessee
Mark Campbell, TCU
Cori Close, UCLA
Nell Fortner, Georgia Tech
Lindsay Gottlieb (USC)
Niele Avey, Notre Dame
Kevin McGuff, Ohio State
Jeff Mittie, Kansas State
Wes Moore, NC State
Kim Mulkey, LSU
Shea Ralph, Vanderbilt
Vic Schaefer, Texas
Dawn Staley, South Carolina
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