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FORT WORTH (AP) \u2014 While TCU<\/a> goes as Olivia Miles goes, the playmaking point guard coming off another NCAA tournament triple-double<\/a> isn\u2019t alone doing things for the Horned Frogs to start this March Madness.<\/p>\n

Miles and Co. carry a 43-game home winning streak into Sunday night\u2019s second-round NCAA Tournament game against Washington, when the third-seeded Horned Frogs are trying to get to their second consecutive Sweet 16 after never before going that far.<\/p>\n

TCU (30-5) opened with an 86-40 win over UC San Diego<\/a>, when Miles had her 12th career triple-double and became only the third player to have two in NCAA tourney games. Posts Marta Suarez and Clara Silva added double-doubles and junior guard Taylor Bigby made seven 3-pointers and scored a career-high 27 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we are clicking on all cylinders and our chemistry is flowing like it did yesterday, we\u2019re really hard to stop,\u201d Miles said. \u201cThe confidence will carry us far in March, as long as everyone stays together and everyone plays as confidently as they did yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sixth-seeded Washington (22-10), with fifth-year coach Tina Langley, is playing in a second-round game for the first time since 2017. That team made the NCAA Sweet 16 with AP Player of the Year and All-America pick Kelsey Plum<\/a>, then the NCAA\u2019s career scoring leader \u2014 a mark surpassed by Caitlin Clark two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s honestly a great feeling,\u201d fourth-year senior Elle Ladine said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that when I committed here, Coach Tina presented on the table that\u2019s something we wanted to accomplish and obviously make a deep run.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Big 12 regular-season champion Frogs have won nine of their last 10 games, the only setback to West Virginia in the conference tournament championship game in the third meeting between the teams this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all coming together, which is the journey of each season, is can you get your group to that point where you\u2019re playing your best basketball at this time of the year,\u201d third-year coach Mark Campbell said. \u201cThis group is doing that. … So it\u2019s been pretty fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photos: Olivia Miles, Taylor Bigby star in TCU’s win over UC San Diego in NCAA Tournament opener<\/p>\n

\"TCUView GalleryHowell\u2019s influence<\/p>\n

Transfer guard Avery Howell had 30 points with seven 3-pointers in Washington\u2019s 72-54 win over South Dakota State<\/a>. It was her fourth NCAA tourney win, after being part of Southern Cal\u2019s run to the NCAA Elite Eight last season as a freshman.<\/p>\n

Junior guard and Huskies leading scorer Sayvia Sellers\u2019 four points were 14 below her season average, but she had 10 assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously when you have Avery that\u2019s making seven 3s a game, it makes it really easy to pass the ball,\u201d Sellers said.<\/p>\n

After averaging 7.5 points and 3.0 rebounds for the Trojans, Howell is at 14.3 points and 8.3 rebounds a game at Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think being able to play free and like confident with the people you have around you and knowing your coaching staff has your back has helped me a lot this year,\u201d Howell said, \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re in the position we are, and I\u2019m able to play free in how I\u2019m playing this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pac-12 connection<\/p>\n

Even though Washington is in its second season as a Big Ten member, and TCU is well-established in the Big 12, there are Pac-12 connections between the schools.<\/p>\n

Four TCU players were previously at schools then playing in the Pac-12: Suarez (California), Bigby (USC and Oregon), junior guard Donovan Hunter (Oregon State) and Maddie Scherr (Oregon). Suarez has played in four major conferences, first at Tennessee in the SEC before being part of Cal\u2019s final Pac-12 season and Big Ten debut, and now the Big 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cA throwback to the Pac-12 days. I was able to play (Washington) here,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cThey have been a great squad still. It\u2019s pretty much kind of the same girls. They have just added new girls in. So it\u2019s cool to see them be able to have games in March.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seven current Huskies were part of the school\u2019s final Pac-12 season in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

Frogs win at home<\/p>\n

TCU\u2019s home winning streak<\/a> since February 2024, before any current players were there, matches with Texas for the NCAA\u2019s longest active winning streak. The Longhorns, a No. 1 seed, are also at home Sunday for a second-round game against Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can look at it this way, it\u2019s not really an NCAA game, it\u2019s really a Quad 1 road game,\u201d said Langley, whose Huskies were 5-4 in conference road games. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of those this year in the Big Ten, and we\u2019ve gone into some great environments. So just it\u2019s really important that we treat it the same as we have all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early to late start<\/p>\n

TCU, hosting NCAA tourney games for the second year in a row, went from the earliest possible start in the first round Friday (11 a.m. local time) to the latest ESPN window Sunday night (9 p.m.).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a head scratcher,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cBut at the end of the day we are going to show up and we\u2019re going to be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late start could keep some older fans and families from showing up at Schollmaeir Arena, but TCU students will be getting back from spring break before the resumption of classes Monday.<\/p>\n

Find more TCU coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH (AP) \u2014 While TCU goes as Olivia Miles goes, the playmaking point guard coming off another…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":672893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,10857,7371,7372,40085,62,22503,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-672892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-colleges","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-march-madness","tag-sports","tag-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116270709179316242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672892","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=672892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}