The 2025–26 Southern Lady Jaguars basketball team represented Southern University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Jaguars, led by eighth-year head coach Carlos Funchess, played their home games at the F. G. Clark Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Previous season The Lady Jaguars finished the 2024–25 season 21–13, 15–3 in SWAC play, to win the SWAC regular season title. They beat #9 seed Mississippi Valley State, Jackson State and Alcorn State to SWAC tournament as a result they received an automatic bid to the NCAA women's tournament where they defeated UC San Diego in the First Four before losing to UCLA in the first round.
Preseason On October 7, 2025, the SWAC released their preseason coaches poll. Southern was picked to finish atop the conference in the SWAC, receiving fourteen of the twenty-three first-place votes.
Preseason rankings SWAC preseason pollPredicted finishTeamVotes (1st place) 1 Southern 265 (14) 2 Alabama A&M 224 (5) 3 Jackson State 213 (1) 4 Texas Southern 202 (1) 5 Grambling State 186 (2) 6 Alcorn State 164 7 Bethune–Cookman 119 8 Florida A&M 111 9 Alabama State 98 10 Prairie View A&M 93 11 Arkansas–Pine Bluff 63 12 Mississippi Valley State 56
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Preseason All-SWAC Teams No Lady Jaguars were named to the first or second Preseason All-SWAC teams.
Roster
Schedule and results
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