The 2025–26 West Virginia Mountaineers women's basketball team currently represents West Virginia University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Mountaineers, led by third year head coach Mark Kellogg, play their home games at the Hope Coliseum as members of the Big 12 Conference.

Previous season The Mountaineers finished the 2024–25 season 25–8, 13–5 in Big 12 play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. As the No. 4 seed in the Big 12 Tournament, they defeated Kansas State before losing to TCU in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a No. 6 seed in the Birmingham regional 3 where they defeated Columbia in the first round before losing in the second round to North Carolina in the second round.

Offseason Departures West Virginia Departures Destiny Aqubata 4 G 5'11" Freshman Moreno Valley, CA Transferred to Georgetown Danelle Arigbabu 8 F 6'4" Senior Berlin, Germany Transferred to Virginia JJ Quinerly 11 G 5'8" Senior Norfolk, VA Graduated/2025 WNBA draft; selected 27th overall by Dallas Wings Kylee Blacksten 14 F 6'3" Graduate Student Colorado Springs, CO Graduated Feryal Defne Atli 17 F 6'3" Freshman Mersin, Turkey Transferred to Appalachian State Zya Nugent 22 G 5'7" Senior Denison, TX Transferred to Saint Louis Ashala Moseberry 24 G 5'10" Junior Madison, WI Transferred Kyah Watson 32 G 5'10" Senior Rapid City, SD Graduated Tirzah Moore 33 F 6'0" Senior Oklahoma City, OK Graduated

Incoming West Virginia Incoming Transfers Carter McCray 1 C 6'1" Junior Oberlin, OH Wisconsin Gia Cooke 3 G 5'9" Junior Clinton, MD Houston Riley Makalusky 21 G/F 6'2" Junior Fishers, IN Butler Kierra Wheeler 22 F 6'1" Graduate Student Minneapolis, MN Norfolk State Loghan Johnson 25 G 5'10" Junior Houston, TX Texas Tech

Recruiting

Roster

Schedule and results

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!colspan=10 style=""| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style="" | Big 12 Conference Regular Season

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Rankings

*AP did not release a week 8 poll.

See also 2025–26 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team

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