The 2025–26 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders women's basketball team represented Middle Tennessee State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Blue Raiders, led by 21st-year head coach Rick Insell, played their home games at Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as members of Conference USA.
Previous season The Blue Raiders finished the 2024–25 season 26–9, 16–2 in C-USA play, to finish as C-USA co-regular season champions, alongside Liberty. They defeated Kennesaw State and Western Kentucky, before falling to top-seeded Liberty in the C-USA tournament championship game. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT, where they were defeated by eventual tournament runner-up Belmont in the first round.
Preseason On October 9, 2025, Conference USA released their preseason poll. Middle Tennessee was picked to finish third in the conference, with two first-place votes.
Preseason rankings +Conference USA Preseason Poll Place Team Votes 1 128 (5) 2 125 (5) 3 Middle Tennessee 123 (2) 4 107 5 96 6 74 7 59 T-8 57 10 51 11 36 12 23
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Preseason All-CUSA Team Preseason All-CUSA TeamPlayerPositionYearAlayna ContrerasGuardSenior Source:
Roster
Weekly awards:
CUSA Player of the Week: Alayna Contreras (1: W15) CUSA Freshmen of the Week: Blair Baugus (7: W1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13) Yu Han Lin (1: W10) Macie Phifer (3: W6, 15, 16)
Schedule and results
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!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=""| C-USA regular season
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