The 2025–26 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team represented Clemson University during the 2025–26 college basketball season. The Tigers were led by second-year head coach Shawn Poppie. The Tigers, members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, played their home games at Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson, South Carolina.

The Tigers started the season with two wins by at least twenty points before facing off against rivals South Carolina, who were ranked second at the time. Clemson kept the game close in the first half, but the Gamecocks pulled away in the second and won 65–37. The Tigers won a non-conference game before starting ACC play with a loss to twenty-second ranked Louisville. They defeated Furman before heading to The Bahamas to participate in the Baha Mar Hoops Championship Junkanoo Division. The Tigers won their first game there, but lost the second to twentieth-ranked Michigan State. The Tigers returned to the US and lost at Alabama in the ACC–SEC Challenge. They turned their season around from there, winning five straight games, including an ACC victory over Pittsburgh. The streak was broken on New Year's Day with a loss to Virginia. The Tigers went 3–2 over their next five games, with victories over Miami, NC State, and Wake Forest, the final coming in overtime. They lost to Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech over the stretch. Clemson then went 5–1 over their next six games, with the only loss coming against twenty-fifth ranked North Carolina. The streak included wins over Notre Dame, SMU, Florida State, Boston College, and Georgia Tech. The Georgia Tech game reached double overtime. The team went 2–2 in its final four regular season games. The highlight was a victory over ninth-ranked Duke, their only win against a ranked team during the season.

The Tigers finished the 2025–26 season 21–12, 11–7 in ACC play to finish in a tie for eighth place. As the ninth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated avenged a regular season loss to Virginia in the second round. They could not repeat their regular season success against thrteenth-ranked and top seed Duke in the quarterfinals. Clemson earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, their first appearance since 2019. The Tigers were the eighth-seed in the Sacramento 4 regional. They lost in overtime in the first round to ninth-seed USC.

Previous season

The Tigers finished the 2024–25 season 14–17, 6–12 in ACC play to finish in a three-way tie for 12th place. As the No. 14 seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated Stanford before losing to Louisville in the second round.

Offseason

Departures Departures Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason for departure 1 G 5'8" Florence, South Carolina Graduated 3 G/F 6'2" Moreno Valley, California Entered transfer portal 7 F 6'0" Cairns, Australia Graduated 10 G 5'6" Charleston, South Carolina — 11 G 5'10" Sagamore Hills, Ohio Graduated 13 G 5'6" Lake Forest, Illinois Transferred to Ohio 14 G 5'4" Lebanon, Tennessee Graduated 22 F 6'2" Crossville, Tennessee Graduated 30 G 5'10" Frisco, Texas Graduated 31 F 6'2" Raleigh, North Carolina Graduated

Incoming transfers

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous school 10 G 5'9" Cleveland, Ohio DePaul 11 G 6'0" Šiauliai, Lithuania Georgia Tech 14 G 5'7" Scranton, Pennsylvania Wofford 21 G/F 6'2" Tuttle, Oklahoma Tulsa 25 F 6'2" Douglasville, Georgia Wake Forest 31 C 6'5" Kent, Connecticut Marist

2025 recruiting class

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Roster

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Statistics

Mia Moore 32 32 32.1 45.8% 37.0% 66.9% 5.4 4.7 13.3 Rusne Augustinaite 33 29 24.5 41.5% 42.1% 82.6% 2.8 0.8 10.6 Taylor Johnson-Matthews 33 5 21.3 40.8% 39.0% 74.1% 2.5 0.6 9.5 Rachel Rose 32 21 27.4 45.0% 32.5% 74.1% 2.5 2.4 8.6 Demeara Hinds 31 15 20.7 58.9% — 46.7% 6.3 0.9 8.2 Raven Thompson 33 31 26.1 47.3% 31.5% 87.5% 4.5 1.5 7.5 Hannah Kohn 33 12 18.9 30.6% 30.1% 66.7% 1.6 0.7 4.7 Hadley Periman 32 20 22.3 26.3% 18.2% 66.7% 5.5 1.2 2.6 Holland Harris 22 0 8.5 37.5% 37.5% 38.5% 2.2 0.3 2.1 Morgan Lee 21 0 6.2 39.0% 17.6% 100.0% 1.1 0.1 2.0 Morgan Miller 10 0 3.6 66.7% 75.0% 37.5% 0.9 — 1.8 Amaia Jackson 13 0 6.5 34.8% 18.2% 62.5% 0.5 0.5 1.8

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Rankings

*AP did not release a week 8 poll.

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