NCAA Women's Basketball NewsFriday, Feb 13, 2026

Olivia Miles poured in career highs with 40 points and 10 3-pointers to lead No. 17 TCU 83-67 over No. 12 Baylor on Thursday. Miles scored 10 points in the first half before an outrageous, 23-point third quarter in which she went 7 of 9 from behind the arc, and accounted for all but two of the Horned Frogs' 25 points. It's her second-straight game with 31 or more, in a season in which she's never scored fewer than 12 points in a game.

NCAA scoring leader Mikayla Blakes had 34 points as No. 5 Vanderbilt beat No. 4 Texas by double digits on Thursday night.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Lanie Grant scored 15 points, Indya Nivar added 14 and No. 21 North Carolina routed SMU 94-42 on Thursday night for its eighth straight victory. Courtney Banghart secured her 400th career win to become one of 48 active coaches in Division I women’s basketball to reach the mark. North Carolina jumped out to a 28-9 lead by the end of the first quarter after making 6 of 8 3-pointers, while SMU went 3-for-14 overall. Five different Tar Heel players made a 3-pointer in the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Janiah Barker scored 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds, Talaysia Cooper added 17 points and four steals, and No. 22 Tennessee rolled past Missouri 98-53 on Thursday night. Barker shot 9 of 16 from the field and 2 for 5 from beyond the arc for the Lady Vols (16-6, 8-2 Southeastern Conference), who had lost three of their last four games. Alyssa Latham added 15 points (7-for-10 shooting), Nya Robertson scored 14, and Deniya Prawl notched her first career double-double...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Yarden Garzon led with 19 points, four other Terrapins scored in double figures, and No. 20 Maryland took down Penn State 81-62 on Thursday night. Oluchi Okananwa (15 points), Addi Mack (13), Saylor Poffenbarger (10), and Mir McLean (10) each chipped in for the Terrapins (20-6, 8-6 Big Ten), who won their third straight game. Poffenbarger hauled in 11 rebounds and had five assists in her third double-double of the season, and Okananwa dished six assists and tied her c...

Laura Ziegler scored 13 points, Tajianna Roberts had 12 and No. 9 Louisville held Wake Forest to just nine points in each of the first two quarters on the way to a 86-67 rout on Thursday night. The Cardinals (23-4, 13-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) have won their past two contests by 19 points each since their initial league loss to No. 11 Duke snapped a 14-game winning streak.

Asia Boone and Tonie Morgan each scored 19 points and Clara Strack posted a double-double as No. 18 Kentucky breezed past Texas A&M 75-55 on Thursday night. Boone was 5-of-11 shooting, with four made 3-pointers, and Morgan added eight assists. Strack had 17 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for the Wildcats (19-7, 6-6 Southeastern Conference).

Cotie McMahon racked up 21 points and dished five assists as No. 14 Mississippi cruised by Arkansas 80-57 on Thursday night to reach 20 wins for the fifth straight season. McMahon scored 20 or more points for the fourth straight game and has scored double figures in all but one outing this season. The Rebels (20-5, 7-3 Southeastern Conference) bounced back from a 64-63 loss at then-No. 21 Alabama last Thursday to comfortably get back into the win column in their first home game in over a month.

Olivia Olson had 21 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, and No. 7 Michigan beat Northwestern 80-58 on Thursday night. Michigan (21-4, 12-2 Big Ten) shook off a slow start while bouncing back from a 69-66 home loss to No. 2 UCLA on Sunday. Next up is a big matchup with rival Michigan State on Sunday.

Texas coach Vic Schaefer called the Longhorns "soft" after they lost to Vanderbilt on their home floor, 86-70.

The Ivy League title race takes center stage tonight as the No. 24 Princeton Tigers head to New York City for a high-stakes rematch against the Columbia Lions at Levien Gymnasium. With Columbia handing the Tigers their only conference loss just two weeks ago in a 73-67 stunner at Princeton, tonight's clash is more than just a regular-season game-it's a battle for the No. 1 seed in the conference standings. If you want to see if Madison St. Rose and the Tigers can exact revenge or if the Lions...