Undisputed! TCU Sweeps Big 12 Regular Season and Tournament Championships

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Undisputed! TCU Sweeps Big 12 Regular Season and Tournament Championships

3/9/2025 9:22:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Van Lith scores 20 to lead No. 8 TCU past 17th-ranekd Baylor, 64-59

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – TCU is the indisputable best in the Big 12 Conference.

Hailey Van Lith scored 20 points as the eighth-ranked Horned Frogs defeated No. 17 Baylor, 64-59, to win the Big 12 Championship on Sunday inside the T-Mobile Center.

TCU earned a season sweep of the conference regular season and tournament titles, becoming the league's first team unclad in green and gold to claim both in nearly two decades.

Sunday's victory over Baylor, winners of dozen Big 12 tournament titles, was TCU's first conference tournament championship in 20 years. The Horned Frogs last cut down the nets in tournament play when the program triumphed in the 2005 Conference USA Basketball Championship.

TCU entered the 2024-25 campaign enduring a 37-game losing streak to the national power Bears. In a span of six weeks, TCU became the first team in 18 years to defeat Baylor three times in a season. The Frogs outlasted the Bears in a 51-48 thriller on March 2 in Waco to win the undisputed regular season championship.

The result potentially vaulted the Horned Frogs (31-3, 16-2 Big 12) to the 2-seed line in the NCAA Tournament. TCU is all-but-assured of a host site of the opening rounds of the Big Dance from March 21-24.

Van Lith was tabbed tournament MVP following the final horn. She averaged 21 points, 4.5 assists and three rebounds per game across TCU's victories over Colorado, No. 16 West Virginia and Baylor.

Sedona Prince powered home a 14-rebound, 12-point double-double and joined fellow Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy finalist Van Lith on the all-tournament team.

With Prince patrolling the paint, TCU had the Bears doubled up on the boards, 32-16, early in the fourth quarter and finished with a 34-25 edge on the glass vs. the Big 12's top rebounding team.

TCU's prowess inside loomed large in the early going. The Horned Frogs gave the ball away 15 times before the intermission yet found themselves up 30-19 entering the locker room. TCU outrebounded the Bears 21-9 over the first 20 minutes and limited Baylor to 26 percent shooting (7-27).

More importantly, Prince limited Aaronette Vonleh to just four points, including none in the second quarter. Vonleh, also an All-Big 12 center, scored 37 in the Bears' 84-74 overtime win over No. 21 Oklahoma State in Saturday's semifinals.

Trailing 9-8, TCU closed the first quarter on a 7-2 run over the final 3:14.

Madison Conner netted eight of her 11 points in the second quarter, twice connecting from distance. Donovyn Hunter proved equally invaluable, as she matched Conner's first half points tally.

Hunter's hot hand alleviated pressure on Van Lith, but it was the Big 12 Player of the Year's show in the third. Van Lith hung a dozen against a Bears' defense frequently affording her one-on-one opportunities in transition.

TCU took a 51-43 advantage into the final frame. But as was the case in the teams' previous pair of encounters, Baylor had a late run in store. The Bears tied the ballgame up at 57-57 with 3:43 remaining. TCU went scoreless for nearly four minutes.

Prince snapped the drought and permanently gave TCU the lead on the Frogs' next offensive trip via a low block layup. Van Lith delivered what proved to be a dagger after TCU strung together consecutive stops, transforming an isolation drive left into two points and a 61-57 lead with 48 seconds to go.

Agnes Emma-Nnopu iced the game with two free throws and the Horned Frogs ahead 62-59 following a failed Baylor 3-point attempt.

TCU finished 21-23 at the foul line. The 21 free throws were the Horned Frogs' most in a game all season. TCU also set a program Big 12 championship record for free throw percentage (.913).

Hunter finished with 11 points to give the Frogs' four double-digit scorers.

TCU held Baylor to a season-low two 3-pointers for the second straight head-to-head.

Prince tallied a game-high four steals.

Team Notes

The Horned Frogs became the 18^th team in the history of the Big 12 to sweep the conference regular season and tournament championships.
TCU is the 10^th team in league history to capture a Big 12 tournament championship.
The 2024-25 TCU women's basketball team is the only squad in Big 12 history to twice beat Baylor in a conference championship game.
TCU improved to 4-2 all-time in conference tournament championship tilts.
TCU's 31 victories are the tied with No. 1 Texas for any team in America.
TCU has led at halftime in 24 straight ballgames and in an NCAA-leading 31 contests this season.
The Horned Frogs' defense has Baylor to its two lowest point totals in a first half all season. The Bears' 19 points entering the intermission were a season low.
TCU held Baylor below its season scoring average in all three head-to-heads.
TCU notched its eighth victory over a ranked team this season.
TCU's eight ranked wins are tied with Notre Dame, whom it defeated in the Cayman Islands Classic, for the fifth-most of any team in the country.
TCU improved to 8-2 in neutral site affairs over the last two seasons.
The Frogs notched their eighth all-time conference championship – regular season or tournament – on Sunday.
TCU gave the university its 20^th all-time basketball championship when including the men's program.
TCU is now one of only six teams in America alongside Texas, South Carolina, Notre Dame, USC and UCLA to win four consecutive games vs. ranked teams.

Individual Notes

Mark Campbell won his ninth conference regular season or tournament championship as a head coach or associate head coach and fourth in the last 24 months.
Campbell-led teams have now swept a league's regular season and tournament titles in two of his four seasons as a head coach.
Campbell has now facilitated a year-over win improvement of at least 11 games in every season he has helmed a program.
Van Lith notched 27^th all-time win vs. a ranked team.
Van Lith (180 assists) is now four assists shy of breaking TCU's single-season record.
Van Lith scored at least 20 points vs. a ranked team for the 14^th time in her career.
Prince has finished with a double-double in all four of her meetings with Baylor.
Prince averaged 13 rebounds per game across TCU's tournament run.
For her career, Prince will have netted 15 double-doubles in 28 games vs. Big 12 opposition.
Hunter scored in double figures for the eighth time in a TCU uniform and second in her last three outings.
Hunter tied her season-high in 3-pointers (three).
Conner increased her NCAA-leading 3-pointers tally to 118, putting her 13 shy of matching the Big 12 single-season record.
Emma-Nnopu notched her seventh all-time conference tournament title.
Three players on the Horned Frogs' roster now bear multiple conference tournament championships to their names; Emma-Nnopu (3), Natalie Mazurek (3), Prince (2) and Taylor Bigby (2).