The 2025–26 Montana State Bobcats women's basketball team represents Montana State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bobcats, led by 21st-year head coach Tricia Binford, play their home games at Worthington Arena in Bozeman, Montana, as members of the Big Sky Conference.
Previous season The Bobcats finished the 2024–25 season 30–4, 17–1 in Big Sky play, to finish as Big Sky regular season champions. They defeated Northern Colorado, Idaho State, and Montana to win the Big Sky tournament championship, sending the Bobcats to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2022. In the tournament, they would receive the No. 13 seed in the Birmingham Regional 3, where they would be defeated by No. 4 seed Ohio State in the First Round.
Preseason On October 22, 2025, the Big Sky Conference released their preseason coaches and media poll. Montana State was picked to finish atop the conference in both the coaches poll, with five first-place votes, and the media poll, with eleven first-place votes.
Preseason rankings
+Big Sky Preseason Coaches' Poll Place Team Votes 1 Montana State 74 (5) 2 72 (3) 3 65 (1) 4 57 (1) 5 50 6 38 7 36 8 28 T-9 15
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+Big Sky Preseason Media Poll Place Team Votes 1 Montana State 238 (11) 2 Montana 224 (7) 3 Idaho 220 (7) 4 Sacramento State 177 (2) 5 Idaho State 161 6 Eastern Washington 123 7 Weber State 120 8 Northern Arizona 102 9 Northern Colorado 86 10 Portland State 34
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Roster
Schedule and results
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