Oklahoma's Aaliyah Chavez is already turning insane expectations into reality

It’s no longer much of a bold statement, but Oklahoma’s Aaliyah Chavez is the best freshman in all of women’s college basketball right now. And she could soon be the best regardless of class.

Chavez was big-time again on Wednesday night in the No. 9 Sooners’ 103-98 overtime win against North Carolina State in Norman as part of the ACC/SEC Women’s Challenge. The victory bumped OU to 8-1 on the young season.

Aaliyah Chavez scores freshman season-high in Sooners win

In the comeback win, Chavez nearly broke an OU freshman record with 33 points, which was more than any freshman in the country has scored this season. She would have broken the program record for most points in a game by a freshman with just three more points.

Chavez also had four rebounds, four assists and a steal with the 33 points.

This performance by Chavez came after she just dropped a previous career-high 29 points her last outing in a 109-91 win over Florida State on Sunday.

Chavez has scored double-digits in all but one of her nine career games so far. She put up nine against East Texas A&M, which ended a streak of five games in a row with double figures to start her college career.

Through nine games, Chavez leads the Sooners with 19.7 points a game and also logs the most minutes with 30.9 per game. She’s also averaging 3.4 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.6 steals from the point. That production has already earned her SEC Freshman of the Week honors twice.

A 5-foot-10 point guard from Lubbock, Texas, Chavez signed with Oklahoma as a consensus five-star recruit and No. 1 player in the 2025 class with extremely high expectations to emerge as the next face of women’s basketball. Only nine games into her career, that expectation for Chavez to be the top player in her class has already become reality.