Voting Breakdown

1. Big Ten - 41.3%
2. SEC - 37.0%
3. ACC - 21.7%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman Of The Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Most Underrated Player

Most Underrated Team

Thread Of The Year

Storyline Of The Year

After losing Olivia Miles, Sonia Citron, Maddy Westbeld, and several veteran contributors, the Fighting Irish are entering a new era led by one of the greatest players in the country—Hannah Hidalgo.

In this video, we take a deep dive into Notre Dame's entire roster, including:

🏀 Hannah Hidalgo's incredible rise to superstardom

🏀 Princeton transfer Madison St. Rose and why she could become the perfect complement to Hidalgo

🏀 Louisville transfer Anaya Hardy and why she may be one of the biggest sleeper additions in the ACC

🏀 Veteran Kelly Ratigan's leadership role

🏀 A loaded freshman class featuring:

• Jacy Abii
• Jenica Lewis
• Amari Byles
• Bella Ragone
• Isabella Sangha

🏀 The return of Leah Macy after missing last season

We'll also discuss Notre Dame's chances in the ACC, whether this young roster can contend for a Final Four, and if Hannah Hidalgo can finish her legendary career with a National Championship.

Can Notre Dame reload instead of rebuild?

Let me know YOUR predictions in the comments!

#NotreDame #HannahHidalgo #GoIrish #NCAAW #WomensBasketball #CollegeBasketball #ACC #FightingIrish #NieleIvey #NotreDameBasketball #DavisSportsReport #FinalFour #MarchMadness #WBB #basketball 

HARRISONBURG, Va. – Nicole Razor of James Madison women's basketball has been elevated to associate head coach, as announced by Head Coach Sean O'Regan on Thursday. The 2026-27 season will mark Razor's third as a member of the Dukes' coaching staff.

"Coach Razor has been a great asset to us in her first two years," said O'Regan. "She has helped move our program forward in so many ways. I'm glad to announce her new title and look forward to what we can do moving forward."

In her new role, Razor will assume oversight of the Dukes' defensive game play. After joining the JMU staff as an assistant coach before the 2024-25 season, she introduced new defensive drills that have been instrumental to the team's success.

"I want to express the immense pride I feel coaching at JMU," said Razor. "Coach O has provided me a chance to learn and grow under his program, and with this new role, I plan to continue to do just that. I'm grateful for the opportunity and look forward to continuing to build on our winning tradition."

JMU has gone 56-15 (.789) in Razor's first two seasons in Harrisonburg, with its 56 wins tying for 11th in Division I in that span. The Dukes are coming off a 26-9 (14-4 Sun Belt) season in which, following a 74-67 loss at Arkansas State (Jan. 25), they rattled off 12 consecutive victories on their way to a Sun Belt Conference Championship tournament title. During that winning streak, JMU held opponents to 54.2 points per game, with the final nine opponents all scoring 57 points or fewer, to which O'Regan credited Razor for her defensive adjustments.

For their efforts this past season, Ashanti Barnes and Bree Robinson were both named to the All-Sun Belt Defensive team. Barnes' 7.9 rebounds per game in 2025-26 place her seventh in JMU single-season history, while Robinson's 82 steals tied the program record, set by Jess Cichowicz in 2002-03. Moreover, Brianna McLeod finished fourth in the nation with 52 blocks off the bench.

Voting Breakdown:

1. Virginia Cavaliers NCAA Tournament Trajectory (first First Four team to reach Sweet 16) - 43.2%
2. Lauren Betts, "I Want To Be Here" - 34.1%
3. Notre Dame overcoming having only two returning players to make its first Elite Eight under Niele Ivey - 13.6%
4. Kara Lawson's Duke in the spotlight as she becomes the new coach of Team USA - 4.5%
5. Sarah Graves, Personality In The Paint - 4.5%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman of the Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Most Underrated Player

Most Underrated Team

Thread Of The Year

I love Lexie Gordon. She recently posted a Netflix mock interview start mentioning all the tea with Geno her Freshman year and why she transferred out. Other UCONN players commented confirmation how he can behave.

Does anyone know what this is about?

At the end of the day her journey led her to her fiancé and her now beautiful life, but I’m curious what happened.

Thank you

The deleted "insider" thread forecasting an Iowa State transfer exodus!!

Voting Breakdown:

1. The deleted "insider" thread forecasting an Iowa State transfer exodus - 83.7%
2. South Carolina vs. LSU Game Thread - 11.6%
3. LSU vs. Kentucky Game Thread - 4.7%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman of the Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Most Underrated Player

Most Underrated Team

Voting Breakdown:

1. Minnesota - 33.3%
2. Duke - 22.2%
3. Notre Dame - 17.8%
4. Virginia - 15.6%
5. West Virginia - 11.1%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman of the Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Most Underrated Player

Rest well mouse

Voting Breakdown:

1. Taina Mair (Duke) - 39.1%
2. Gabriela Jacquez (UCLA) - 28.3%
3. Ava Heiden (Iowa) - 15.2%
4. Britt Prince (Nebraska) - 10.9%
5. Katie Fiso (Oregon) - 6.5%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman of the Year

Most Improved Player

Most Improved Team

Voting Breakdown:

1. Vanderbilt - 38.6%
2. Minnesota - 31.8%
3. Texas Tech - 11.4%
4. Arizona State - 11.4%
5. Syracuse - 6.8%

Other 2026 r/NCAAW Awards:

Freshman of the Year

Most Improved Player

Note: this isn’t which program. Ex: instead of saying just ‘South Carolina’, say ‘I think the 2023–24 South Carolina team was the best’ or ‘I think the 2025–26 UCLA team was the best’

Anyways I think it’s either one of the two I’m about to mention:

2023–24 South Carolina Gamecocks

This South Carolina team had a completely new starting lineup as Aliyah Boston, Zia Cooke, Victaria Saxton, Bree Beal, and Kierra Fletcher had all graduated. So they started out ranked #6 which was valid at first but when they throttled Notre Dame in Paris at the start of the year, everyone was like “hold on now…” and soon they jumped up to #1. It also helped that then-#1 LSU lost 92–78 to #20 Colorado in Las Vegas.

The Gamecocks stayed at #1 for the rest of the season and went 16–0 in SEC play, winning another SEC title in the process. They won every SEC game by double digits except for the LSU game, which they won 76–70. In the SEC Tournament, they beat Tennessee in the semifinals 74–73 after Kamilla Cardoso hit her very first three-pointer for the win, and then they beat LSU 79–72 in the championship.

In the NCAA tournament they were the #1 overall seed for the 3rd consecutive year and won every game by double digits except for their Sweet 16 game against Indiana which they won 79–75. They beat Oregon State 70–58 in the Elite Eight and then made the Final Four in Cleveland where they beat NC State 78–59. In the National Championship Game, South Carolina defeated Iowa 87–75, getting revenge on the Hawkeyes, who’d eliminated the Gamecocks 77–73 in the previous season’s Final Four in Dallas. Kamilla Cardoso was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

This team definitely has a case to be considered the best of the decade when you consider the fact that they’d lost Aliyah Boston and all their other seniors yet still dominated their schedule even with a new lineup on the floor. After the 2023 season, Dawn Staley had gone as far as considering retiring but decided to keep going and came home with another trophy to add to her collection.

2025–26 UCLA Bruins

UCLA did win an AIAW National Championship in 1978 when Ann Meyers Dreysdale and Denise Curry played for the Bruins but they’ve largely remained in the shadow of the men’s basketball program. For most of the 2000s and early 2010s, they were a shell of their former selves from the 70s, but everything changed when Cori Close was hired in 2011. She got the Bruins back to being NCAA tournament regulars and took them to the Elite Eight in 2018, their first run that far since 1999. For a while after though, it seemed as though they were peaking at a 2nd-4th place finish in the conference and a Sweet 16 exit. But it all changed when a certain group of players each decided to commit to UCLA at some point; those players were Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalić, Gianna Kneepkens, and Charlisse Leger-Walker.

When Rice and Jaquez joined in 2022–23, UCLA made the Sweet 16. The next year, they had brought in Lauren Betts—the top recruit from the class of 2022—from Stanford. Expectations were raised much higher and they spent much of the year in the Top 5, reaching as high as #2 at one point. But unfortunately for the Bruins, they finished in 3rd place in the Pac-12 and also couldn’t conquer their Sweet 16 boogeyman as they lost 78–69 to LSU.

The next season, they added Timea Gardiner and Charlisse Leger-Walker out of the portal. When they upset the defending national champions South Carolina 77–62 in November, everyone took notice. They ascended to #1 in the rankings for the first time in program history and spent all but a few weeks at that position. Both games against crosstown rival USC were sold out at the Galen Center (USC’s arena) and Pauley Pavilion (UCLA’s arena) respectively, as so many people in LA wanted to see the JuJu Watkins vs. Lauren Betts clashes. USC swept the Bruins, but UCLA got revenge by winning the Big Ten Tournament. They got the #1 overall seed and made the program’s first Final Four, but lost 85–51 in humiliating fashion to the UConn Huskies (who won the national championship 2 days later).

The next season, they again had high expectations and grabbed Utah’s Gianna Kneepkens from the transfer portal. The six seniors (Betts, Rice, Jaquez, Dugalić, Kneepkens, and Leger-Walker) wanted to leave UCLA with a National Championship. They suffered a 76–65 loss to Texas in the Players’ Era Festival in Las Vegas, but that would be their only loss all season. They steamrolled through the Big Ten and went 18–0 in conference play, becoming only the second Big Ten team to do so. They stayed at #2 for most of the year, but couldn’t overcome UConn for the #1 spot. In the NCAA tournament, they made it back to the Final Four and defeated Texas in a rematch 51–44, which set the stage for a National Championship matchup against South Carolina, who’d eliminated UConn 62–48 in the Final Four.

In the National Championship, UCLA dominated from start to finish, and by the end of the 3rd quarter they were up 61–32; this was the largest lead margin entering the 4th quarter in NCAA history. Every senior besides Dugalić scored in double figures (Dugalić was 1 point shy) and the Bruins won 79–51 for their first NCAA title. Lauren Betts was named Most Outstanding Player. All six seniors went on to be drafted in the WNBA draft (Betts at 4, Jaquez at 5, Rice at 6, Dugalić at 9, Kneepkens at 15, and Leger-Walker at 18), which is the most draftees in a single draft from any team in women’s basketball history.

I think this team has a case to be considered the best of the decade when you see that they dominated almost every team on their schedule and had so few single-digit games that you could count said single-digit games on one hand. Additionally, it wasn’t just one player doing all the work. Cori Close made sure that everybody could contribute, whether it was scoring, assisting, rebounding, blocking shots, stealing loose or 50/50 balls, etc.

Anyways who would you pick as the best team of the decade? I added a poll with some possible candidates to choose from

TL;DR: I think the 2023–24 South Carolina team and 2025–26 UCLA team each have a case to be considered the best team of the decade. 2023–24 South Carolina went undefeated and won the national championship. despite a new starting lineup, and 2025–26 UCLA went 37–1 and won the national championship.

where do you think the top 25 recruits for '27 will go?

Basketball fans will have a chance to see high-level basketball in Victoria this summer when Canada’s Senior Women’s team hosts UCLA, the 2026 NCAA Women’s Basketball National champions.

At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22, Canada’s Senior Women’s National Team tips off against the 2026 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champions for an exhibition game at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

The W’Hoop It Up event is organized by Canada Basketball in partnership with Rifflandia, and has hosted events with Canada’s team in Greater Victoria since 2023.

“This game is a celebration of how far the women’s game has come and an opportunity for fans to witness some of the sport’s very best athletes on Canadian soil,” said Vanessa Leong, chief operating officer of Rifflandia.

Michael Bartlett, president and CEO of Canada Basketball says “Victoria has become a special home away from home for our Senior Women’s National Team, and we’re thrilled to return once again this summer.”

“The support we’ve received from the Greater Victoria basketball community over the past several years has been incredible,” says Barlett. “We look forward to welcoming fans back to Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre for another memorable night of basketball.”

Another coaching hire, this time from UWGB.

Like many USC fans, I am ecstatic about this upcoming season. I am very excited for Juju’s return and can’t wait to see how she meshes with players like Jazzy and Saniyah Hall. I was curious though of how our starting lineup will look like. I have heard many say that we will see a lot of small ball with a starting lineup of Jazzy, Juju, Saniyah, Kennedy, and Sara. I have also heard that maybe we will start two bigs as we now have a pretty good front court going for us. Also curious to see where Ryan Bennet fits in as she is primarily a PG and could fit into the starting lineup if Lindsay wants to run a true PG. What lineup do you think would be the most efficient? Let me know your thoughts!

The 5’6 Special K is women’s basketball’s next phenom. She has the ball on a string which allows her to get wherever she wants on the floor, and her combination of explosive scoring outbursts and elite playmaking ability leave the opposing teams in a constant “pick your poison” situation.

Join me in Area51 as we breakdown what makes her so… special!

Where do yall think she’ll commit? Niele Ivy was her head coach in the recent FIBA tournament and ND is known as Guard U basically…

I got Ashlyn and Chloe back Joyce letting it fly from midrange and from 3 I got my opps best shooter next to the best shooter in college. Year 2 agot makeer.

Like 5 of my players can Dunk

I got Ali with a full offseason

I been crying tears of joy all day

The only thing I’m remotely worried about is the backup pg situation when mouse needs a break who’s running point?