NCAA Women's Basketball NewsMonday, Feb 16, 2026

Geno Auriemma tied Tara VanDerveer's for most appearances in the AP women’s basketball poll, while multiple teams fell out of it entirely.

Regular-season titles, conference tournament seeds and NCAA tournament hopes are on the line.

The top five stayed the same, Duke entered the top 10 and Maryland and TCU were the biggest climbers.

Duke and Michigan leaped into the top 5 of Autumn Johnson's latest Power 10 rankings after multiple top teams suffer losses.

Autumn Johnson sat down with Amanda Braun, chair of the NCAA DI Women’s Basketball Committee, to talk about the decision-making process behind the first top 16 reveal of the 2026 NCAA women's basketball season.

Syla Swords had 24 points and Olivia Olson scored 23, helping No. 7 Michigan beat No. 13 Michigan State 86-65 on Sunday to sweep the season series. Mila Holloway, who finished with 15 points, made a 3-pointer to give the Wolverines (22-4, 13-2 Big Ten) their first lead with 5:53 left in the first half and scored eight points in one minute to spark a 10-0 run. The Spartans (20-6, 9-6) were outscored 26-9 in the second quarter and didn't recover, losing for the fourth time in five games.

Laura Ziegler scored 14 points for ninth-ranked Louisville in an 88-65 rout of Florida State on Sunday night. The matchup between the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top scoring offense (Louisville, 81.9 ppg) and its next-to-last defense (Florida State, 76 ppg) played out that way as the Cardinals (24-4, 14-1 ACC) took control early and never trailed en route to their third straight win. Ziegler scored the game’s first five points and Louisville used a 9-0 run later in the opening quarter to buil...

Sayvia Sellers scored 17 points to help No. 25 Washington beat Oregon 51-43 on Sunday night. Sellers made 6 of 16 shots with three 3-pointers for the Huskies (19-7, 9-6 Big Ten Conference). Avery Howell pitched in with nine points and nine rebounds.

Marta Suarez and Clara Silva both finished with 14 points to help No. 17 TCU beat No. 19 West Virginia 59-50 on Sunday night and take over the top spot in the Big 12 Conference. TCU (23-4, 11-3), which won the regular-season and conference tournament titles last season, is tied with No. 12 Baylor, but the Horned Frogs have the tiebreaker advantage after beating the Bears 83-67 before taking care of the Mountaineers. Baylor visits TCU to close out the regular season on March 1.

Geno Auriemma tied Tara VanDerveer for most appearances in the AP women's basketball Top 25 poll when UConn remained No. 1 on Monday. Auriemma has led the Huskies to 654 appearances in the poll during his 41-year Hall of Fame career to match VanDerveer, who retired from Stanford in 2024. UConn has been ranked for the past 619 consecutive weeks, dating to the preseason 1993-94 poll, and once again was a unanimous choice at No. 1 from the 31-member national media panel.

Fudd went for 25 points against Marquette to help the Huskies remain undefeated

UConn is still the unanimous No. 1, followed by UCLA and South Carolina