__NOTOC__ In basketball, an assist is a pass to a teammate that directly leads to a score by field goal. The top 25 highest assists totals in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's basketball history are listed below. The NCAA did not immediately record assists throughout women's college basketball when it began sponsoring women's sports in the 1981–82 school year; it began recording assists in Division I in 1984–85.
The all-time leader in career assists is Suzie McConnell of Penn State. She recorded 1,307 assists in 128 games (10.21 per game average) between 1984–85 and 1987–88. Second on the list is Andrea Nagy of FIU, who compiled 1,165 assists. Only four other women have recorded 1,000 career assists at the Division I level: Caitlin Clark of Iowa (1,144), Courtney Vandersloot of Gonzaga (1,118), Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon (1,091), and Tine Freil of Pacific (1,088).
All but five of the players listed compiled their totals in the standard four seasons. The exceptions are Neacole Hall of Alabama State, who compiled 869 assists despite playing only three seasons in Division I (1986–87 to 1988–89), and five players who competed in five seasons: Lauren Park-Lane (2019–20 to 2023–24), Emily Ryan, Georgia Amoore (both 2020–21 to 2024–25), Rori Harmon (2021–22 to 2025–26), and Olivia Miles (2020–21 to 2025–26). Park-Lane, Ryan, Amoore, and Miles benefited from a blanket NCAA waiver that did not count the 2020–21 season, heavily disrupted by COVID-19, against the eligibility of any basketball player. Miles also benefited from an NCAA hardship waiver, popularly known as a "medical redshirt", due to missing the entire 2023–24 season to injury. Harmon, who started her college career after COVID, also received a similar hardship wqiver during her career.
Hall is also the all-time Division I leader in assists per game with 10.35, slightly ahead of McConnell's 10.21. In all, 16 of the top 25 players in career assists are also in the top 25 for assists per game.
Two schools have two players represented in the top 25 of the all-time career assists leader board — FIU with Nagy and Dalma Iványi, and Iowa with Clark and Samantha Logic. The aforementioned Park-Lane, Miles, and Amoore are the only individuals in the top 25 to have played at more than one school. All played four seasons at their original schools (Park-Lane at Seton Hall, Miles at Notre Dame, Amoore at Virginia Tech) before transferring for their final seasons (respectively to Mississippi State, TCU, and Kentucky).
Of the top 25, four were born outside the United States—Nagy and Iványi in Hungary, Freil in Denmark, and Amoore in Australia.
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Top 25 career assists leaders
Current through the end of the 2025–26 season.
PlayerPos.TeamCareer startCareer endGamesplayedAssistsAPGRef. G Penn State 1984 1988 128 1,307 G FIU 1991 1995 125 1,165 G Iowa 2020 2024 139 1,144 G Gonzaga 2007 2011 136 1,118 G Oregon 2016 2020 142 1,091 G Pacific 1989 1993 111 1,088 G Iowa State 2020 2025 153 993 G Baylor 2012 2016 146 988 G Providence 1987 1991 121 987 G Texas 2021 2026 158 986 G LSU 2001 2005 129 945 G Old Dominion 1994 1998 133 939 G Northwestern State 2000 2004 113 921 G Seton Hall / Mississippi State 2019 2024 155 911 G Notre Dame / TCU 2020 2026 139 906 G West Virginia 2001 2005 120 902 G Ohio State 2008 2012 133 901 G Saint Louis 2014 2018 132 899 G Iowa (2) 2011 2015 135 898 G FIU (2) 1995 1999 106 896 G Northwestern 1989 1993 116 892 G Southern Miss 2010 2014 124 883 G Alabama State 1986 1989 84 869 G Virginia Tech / Kentucky 2020 2025 157 869 * G Louisiana Tech 1984 1988 131 858
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