The 2025–26 Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team represented the University of Pittsburgh during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Panthers were led by third-year head coach Tory Verdi, and played their home games at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

The Panthers began their season with an eight-point loss to Drexel. They rebounded by winning four of their next six games, with the losses coming at home to Scranton and . Pittsburgh then traveled to Fort Myers, Florida to participate in the Florida Gulf Coast Classic. They lost to Ball State and defeated in the tournament. They continued to hover around .500, but lost their ACC–SEC Challenge game against Mississippi State and their ACC opener against Clemson. They ended 2025 with a loss against eighteenth-ranked Notre Dame. A loss to Wake Forest and a victory over Boston College left the team at 8–9. The three-point victory over Boston College would prove to be the team's last of the season. The Panthers lost the next fourteen straight games. They played three ranked teams over this stretch: tenth-ranked Louisville, twenty-first ranked Duke and twenty-second ranked North Carolina. The closest losses over the stretch were a four-point loss at home to Florida State and a pair of seven-point losses to SMU.

The Panthers finished the season 8–23 overall and 1–17 in ACC play to finish in a tie for seventeenth place. They did not qualify for the ACC tournament. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the WBIT. On March 3, Verdi was fired as head coach.Pitt Athletics Announces Leadership Change for Women’s Basketball Program

Previous season

The Panthers finished the season 13–19 overall and 5–13 in ACC play to finish in fifteenth place. As the fifteenth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost their first-round matchup with tenth-seeded Virginia. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the WBIT.

Off-season

Departures

Departures 0 G 5'5" Frankfort, Kentucky Graduated 1 G 5'10" Sewell, New Jersey Transferred to Hampton 3 F 6'3" Fostoria, Ohio Graduated 5 F 6'0" Palm Bay, Florida Transferred to La Salle 10 G 5'9" Chantilly, Virginia Graduated 11 G 5'7" Fairmont, West Virginia Transferred to Arizona State 14 G 5'11" Austin, Texas — 15 C 6'4" Dakar, Senegal Graduated 20 G 5'10" Carnegie, Pennsylvania Transferred to Robert Morris

Incoming transfers

Incoming transfers 8 G 5'9" Málaga, Spain Florida State 11 G 5'4" Woodbridge, Virginia Coppin State 21 F 6'5" Dakar, Senegal Georgia

Recruiting class

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Roster

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!colspan=9 style=""| Regular season

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