It’s time once again for the Big 12 Women’s Basketball Tournament, which will tip-off this Wednesday, March 5 and run through Sunday, March 9.* Every game in the tournament will be streamed live via ESPN+, and the championship game will be aired nationally on ESPN.
The Big 12 was one of several conferences heavily affected by recent conference realignment, welcoming four new schools for the second year in a row. It also lost two of its biggest names, Texas and Oklahoma, both of which went to the SEC. All in all, the Big 12 has grown from 10 teams in 2023 to 16 in 2025, and the new field opens up opportunities for several programs to make history in this year’s tournament.
Chief among those programs is TCU, which went 16-2 in Big 12 play (28-3 overall) and will enter the conference tournament as the No. 1 seed. It’s a monumental achievement for the Horned Frogs, who went 6-12 against Big 12 opponents last season and just 1-17 the in 2022-23, and with rivals Texas (last year’s Big 12 Tournament champions) and Oklahoma (last year’s Big 12 regular-season champions) now playing elsewhere, TCU has seized that opportunity and risen to the top of the conference.
The Horned Frogs’ performance earned them plenty of hardware. Head coach Mark Campbell, in just his second season at the helm, earned Big 12 Coach of the Year honors. Grad transfer Hailey Van Lith was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year after averaging 17.6 points and 5.4 assists per game. She was also named to the All-Big 12 First Team, along with teammates Sedona Prince (17.6 points, 9.4 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game) and Madison Conner (14.8 points and 3.5 made 3-pointers per game).
Needless to say, TCU will be expected to go far in the tournament, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the Horned Frogs retain their regular-season momentum en route to a tournament championship. They’ll face stiff competition, though, from No. 2 seed Baylor (25-6; 15-3 Big 12), which has had by far the most tournament success of any Big 12 program. The Bears have won a whopping 11 Big 12 Tournament titles since 1997, and while they haven’t been quite as dominant in conference play since their last title in 2021, they have the guard play and team defense (81.6 points allowed per 100 possessions; Her Hoop Stats) to make things difficult for just about any opponent.
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