The 2025–26 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles women's basketball team represents Florida Gulf Coast University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Eagles, led by first-year head coach Raina Harmon, play their home games at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Florida, as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Previous season The Eagles finished the 2024–25 season 30–4, 18–0 in ASUN play, to finish as ASUN regular season champions for the eighth consecutive season.. They defeated Austin Peay, Eastern Kentucky, and Central Arkansas to win their eight consecutive ASUN tournament championship, and in turn, their eight straight NCAA tournament appearance. In the NCAA tournament, they would receive the No. 14 seed in the Spokane Regional 4, where they would be defeated by No. 3 seed Oklahoma in the First Round.
After coaching the first two games of the season, on November 13, 2024, longtime head coach Karl Smesko announced that he would be leaving the program after 22+ seasons, in order to take the head coaching position of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream, with assistant coach Chelsea Lyles being named his successor the following day. Following the season, on April 4, 2025, the school announced that they would hiring Iowa assistant coach Raina Harmon as FGCU's next head coach.
Preseason On October 17, 2025, the Atlantic Sun Conference released their preseason coaches and media polls. Florida Gulf Coast was picked to finish atop the conference in both the coaches poll, with six first-place votes, and the media poll, with 36 first-place votes.
Preseason rankings
+ASUN Preseason Coaches' Poll Place Team Votes 1 Florida Gulf Coast 128 (6) 2 124 (3) 3 118 (1) 4 98 5 97 (1) 6 77 7 73 8 61 9 49 10 48 11 37 (1) 12 26
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+ASUN Preseason Media Poll Place Team Votes 1 Florida Gulf Coast 474 (36) 2 Central Arkansas 416 3 Lipscomb 370 4 Eastern Kentucky 368 (2) 5 Stetson 308 6 North Alabama 240 7 Jacksonville 238 8 Bellarmine 216 9 Austin Peay 172 10 West Georgia 146 11 North Florida 88 12 Queens 84
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Roster
Schedule and results
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