TOO MUCH MILES
2/13/2026 8:09:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Bears’ No. 1 3-point FG defense gives up 15 treys in loss to TCU
By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
WACO, Texas – Baylor prides itself on a stingy 3-point field goal percentage defense that came into Thursday night's game against 17th-ranked TCU as the best in the country, holding teams to just over 23% from distance and forcing them to go "two by two by two."
TCU guard Olivia Miles poked some Swiss-cheese-sized holes in that defense, hitting eight of her last 12 from 3-point range and pumping in a career-high 40 points to lift the Horned Frogs (22-4, 11-3) to an 83-67 win over the 12th-ranked Bears (21-5, 11-3) in a first-place matchup at Foster Pavilion.
"We just didn't make any adjustments on her, I felt," said Baylor sophomore guard Taliah Scott, who hit three 3-pointers and scored 22 points of her own in the first matchup of the league's No. 2 and 3 scorers. "And she was able to go out there and score. It's a really tough assignment. She went out there and showed us why she is one of the best guards in the country."
As a team, TCU knocked down 15-of-29 from 3-point range (51.7%), shot 46% overall and was 10-of-11 from the line. Cal transfer Marta Suarez scored 15 of her 27 points in the first half, helping the Horned Frogs take a 36-32 lead into the break.
"We, obviously, had the mentality to be okay with (Miles) taking some shots," Baylor coach Nicki Collen said. "She still scored, but she was inefficient in the first half (2-of-8 from 3-point range). Suarez was the one that really hurt us in the first half. I thought we took her shot-fake way too much on the perimeter. We didn't show enough digging. The goal in the second half was to dig on Suarez, but we didn't guard the ball."
The Bears kept it close through the first four minutes of the third quarter, with Darianna Littlepage-Buggs hitting a jumper to make it a four-point game, 44-40, with 6:03 left in the period. But Miles put on a shooting clinic, hitting 7-of-9 from distance and scoring 23 of TCU's 25 points in the quarter in extending the lead to 61-48.
"I think there are things that are game plan-driven," Collen said, "and things that as players, you say, 'I'm not going to give her another three.' I've got to put a hand up and contest, because the goal is to make them go two by two by two."
Even with the loss, the Bears are in a virtual tie for first place. No. 19/20 West Virginia (21-5, 11-3) has a half-game lead on Baylor, TCU and No. 16/18 Texas Tech (23-3, 10-3), which will host the Bears next Wednesday in Lubbock.
"We still control our own destiny at this point," said Collen, whose team will close out the regular season with a road game against TCU on March 1. "Certainly, we lose the tiebreaker to West Virginia if everybody wins out, but there's too many of us playing each other. So, we're absolutely playing for the same thing we were playing for going into tonight. We made a lot of mistakes, but we'll regroup. We may get them two more times again."
Baylor goes back on the road to face UCF (10-14, 2-11) at 1 p.m. CT Saturday in Orlando, Fla., before Wednesday's trip to Tech.
"I expect us to evaluate and push forward and fix what we felt like we didn't do good enough," Scott said. "We've done that every game we've lost so far this season. I feel like we've gone back, we've gone to practice, we've gone back to work. People don't take losing lightly on this team. We have a fire of getting embarrassed on TV. We want to come back. We want to never let that happen again."
Baylor Bear Insider
WACO, Texas – Baylor prides itself on a stingy 3-point field goal percentage defense that came into Thursday night's game against 17th-ranked TCU as the best in the country, holding teams to just over 23% from distance and forcing them to go "two by two by two."
TCU guard Olivia Miles poked some Swiss-cheese-sized holes in that defense, hitting eight of her last 12 from 3-point range and pumping in a career-high 40 points to lift the Horned Frogs (22-4, 11-3) to an 83-67 win over the 12th-ranked Bears (21-5, 11-3) in a first-place matchup at Foster Pavilion.
"We just didn't make any adjustments on her, I felt," said Baylor sophomore guard Taliah Scott, who hit three 3-pointers and scored 22 points of her own in the first matchup of the league's No. 2 and 3 scorers. "And she was able to go out there and score. It's a really tough assignment. She went out there and showed us why she is one of the best guards in the country."
As a team, TCU knocked down 15-of-29 from 3-point range (51.7%), shot 46% overall and was 10-of-11 from the line. Cal transfer Marta Suarez scored 15 of her 27 points in the first half, helping the Horned Frogs take a 36-32 lead into the break.
"We, obviously, had the mentality to be okay with (Miles) taking some shots," Baylor coach Nicki Collen said. "She still scored, but she was inefficient in the first half (2-of-8 from 3-point range). Suarez was the one that really hurt us in the first half. I thought we took her shot-fake way too much on the perimeter. We didn't show enough digging. The goal in the second half was to dig on Suarez, but we didn't guard the ball."
The Bears kept it close through the first four minutes of the third quarter, with Darianna Littlepage-Buggs hitting a jumper to make it a four-point game, 44-40, with 6:03 left in the period. But Miles put on a shooting clinic, hitting 7-of-9 from distance and scoring 23 of TCU's 25 points in the quarter in extending the lead to 61-48.
"I think there are things that are game plan-driven," Collen said, "and things that as players, you say, 'I'm not going to give her another three.' I've got to put a hand up and contest, because the goal is to make them go two by two by two."
Even with the loss, the Bears are in a virtual tie for first place. No. 19/20 West Virginia (21-5, 11-3) has a half-game lead on Baylor, TCU and No. 16/18 Texas Tech (23-3, 10-3), which will host the Bears next Wednesday in Lubbock.
"We still control our own destiny at this point," said Collen, whose team will close out the regular season with a road game against TCU on March 1. "Certainly, we lose the tiebreaker to West Virginia if everybody wins out, but there's too many of us playing each other. So, we're absolutely playing for the same thing we were playing for going into tonight. We made a lot of mistakes, but we'll regroup. We may get them two more times again."
Baylor goes back on the road to face UCF (10-14, 2-11) at 1 p.m. CT Saturday in Orlando, Fla., before Wednesday's trip to Tech.
"I expect us to evaluate and push forward and fix what we felt like we didn't do good enough," Scott said. "We've done that every game we've lost so far this season. I feel like we've gone back, we've gone to practice, we've gone back to work. People don't take losing lightly on this team. We have a fire of getting embarrassed on TV. We want to come back. We want to never let that happen again."
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