FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 Olivia Miles scored 29 points, but came up short of a record fourth consecutive triple-double, and No. 9 TCU opened the Big 12 season with a 77-55 victory over Kansas State on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Miles, a senior transfer from Notre Dame<\/a>, had eight rebounds and four assists. She registered triple-doubles<\/a> in TCU’s last three games but did not become the first Division I player with four in a row.<\/p>\n TCU’s Marta Suarez, who also had a triple-double last time out<\/a>, scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds.<\/p>\n The Horned Frogs won their 34th consecutive home game, edging ahead of Texas which has won 33 in a row at home. The Longhorns go for No. 34 against Southeastern Louisiana on Dec. 28.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s win was TCU\u2019s 11th straight against Big 12 opponents, a streak that started after last season\u2019s 59-50 loss at Kansas State on Feb. 5. The Horned Frogs (13-0) have won 26 of their last 27 games overall, the loss coming to Texas in the regional finals of last season\u2019s NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n There were seven lead changes in the first quarter but TCU scored the last six points to lead 20-15. In the second quarter, Suarez and Miles each scored six points and the Horned Frogs extended their lead to 39-26 at halftime.<\/p>\n TCU outscored the Wildcats 8-2 over the final 2 1\/2 minutes of the third quarter and led 59-37 heading to the fourth. The closest Kansas State got in the fourth quarter was 17 points on three separate occasions.<\/p>\n Taryn Sides and Jenessa Cotton had 10 points each for Kansas State (7-7).<\/p>\n Clara Silva had 14 points and 10 rebounds for TCU.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Kansas State hosts Cincinnati on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n TCU plays at BYU on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a>. AP women\u2019s college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 Olivia Miles scored 29 points, but came up short of a record fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-461483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115755677338290021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}