The 2026–27 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles women's basketball team will represent Florida Gulf Coast University during the 2026–27 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Eagles, led by second-year head coach Raina Harmon, will play their home games at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Florida, as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Previous season

The Eagles finished the 2025–26 season 16–16 and 11–7 in the ASUN, to finish fifth in the conference. In the ASUN tournament, they won against No. 12 Bellarmine in the first round with a final score of 94–28, the largest margin of victory in tournament history. They then lost in the quarterfinals to No. 4 Stetson in the semifinals, snapping an eight-season streak of conference titles for the Eagles and the first time since 2013 that they did not make the championship game.

The 2025–26 season also marked the first since 2016–17 that the Eagles did not win the ASUN regular season, as well as their worst overall and conference record in program history, at .500 and .611 respectively, as a Division I school.

Following the ASUN tournament, they won an at-large bid to the WNIT, their 7th overall and first since 2016. They earned a bye to Round 2, but were eliminated by Loyola Chicago.

Offseason Departures Florida Gulf Coast departures Nay Staton 0 Forward 6'0" 5th year Jersey City, NJ Exhausted eligibility Mikayla Paschal 5 Forward 5'11" Freshman Largo, FL Transferred to Miami Dade (NJCAA) Maca Retamales 7 Forward 6'1" Graduate Student Santiago, Chile Graduated Jordan Campbell 23 Guard 5'9" Senior Purcellville, VA Graduated Anna Mortag 34 Forward 6'1" Graduate Student Milwaukee, WI Graduated

Incoming transfers Florida Gulf Coast incoming transfers Denika Lightbourne 0 Guard 5'9" Senior Nassau, Bahamas FIU Graca Barbosa 5 Guard 5'6" Junior São Paulo, Brazil Gulf Coast State (NJCAA) Amelia Hobson 8 Guard-Forward 6'1" Junior Melbourne, Australia North Dakota State Lily Zeinstra 10 Guard 5'11" Junior Byron Center, MI Butler

Recruiting class There was no recruiting class for 2026.

Roster Years are listed according to the new NCAA age-based eligibility model.

Schedule and results

!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=""| ASUN regular season

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