The 2025–26 NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team represented North Carolina State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wolfpack were led by thirteenth-year head coach Wes Moore and played their home games at Reynolds Coliseum as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Wolfpack began the season ranked ninth in the AP poll and faced off against two ranked teams: eighth-ranked Tennessee and eighteenth-ranked USC. They defeated Tennessee 80–77 but lost to USC 68–69. The results saw them fall slightly to tenth in the poll. Another 1–1 week, where they lost by ten points to seventeenth-ranked TCU, saw them fall to sixteenth. A loss to Rhode Island saw them fall to twenty-fifth before they traveled to Cancún, Mexico to participate in the Cancún Challenge. Despite winning both their games and finishing as Cancún Challenge champions, the Wolfpack fell out of the rankings. The team traveled from Mexico to Oklahoma, where they lost to the Oklahoma Sooners in the ACC–SEC Challenge in overtime. The Wolfpack then went on a six-game-winning streak which included four ACC wins. They began the season with victories over Miami, Georgia Tech, Stanford, and California. The streak was broken by a road loss to Clemson. The Wolfpack went 4–1 in their next five games, with the only loss coming to ninth-ranked Louisville in overtime. They also recorded an overtime win over Virginia. The Wolfpack experienced a tougher stretch over the next five games, going 2–3. They lost their rivalry game against twenty-fifth-ranked North Carolina by two points, and also lost at Notre Dame, and at ninth-ranked Duke. They finished the regular season with three straight wins.
The Wolfpack finished the regular season 20–9 overall and 13–5 in ACC play to finish in fourth place. As the fourth seed in the ACC tournament, they earned a bye into the quarterfinals, where they lost to Notre Dame for a second time this season. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA touranment, and were the seventh seed in the Fort Worth 3 regional. They defeated ten-seed Tennessee for the second time this year in the first round game. The team lost to second-seed and ninth-ranked Michigan in the second round by twenty-nine points to end their season. The Wolfpack finished the season with a 21–11 record, and were unranked in both the AP poll and oaches polls.
Previous season
The Wolfpack finished the regular season 24–5 overall and 16–2 in ACC play to finish in a tie for first place. As the first seed in the ACC tournament, they earned a bye into the quarterfinals, where they defeated ninth-seed Georgia Tech, 73–72. They matched up with fifth-seed and fourteenth-ranked North Carolina in the Semifinals. They avenged their regular season loss by winning 66–55. The Wolfpack were defeated by third-seed and eleventh-ranked Duke in the final, 76–62. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, and were the two-seed in the Spokane 1 region. They defeated fifteen-seed Vermont and seven-seed Michigan State at home to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. There, they faced three seed and tenth ranked LSU in a rematch of their Pink Flamingo Championship game. They lost again to LSU, this time 80–73, to end their season. The Wolfpack finished the season with a 28–7 record, and ranked ninth in the AP poll and tenth in the coaches polls.
Off-season
Departures Departures Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason for departure 10 G 5'10" Virginia Beach, Virginia Graduated; drafted 12th overallin the 2025 WNBA draft 12 G 6'4" Cortlandt Manor, New York Graduated; transferred toVirginia 15 C 6'5" Adelaide, Australia Graduated; transferred toOregon State 21 G 6'0" Chattanooga, Tennessee Graduated 22 G 6'1" Wilmington, North Carolina Graduated; drafted 8th overallin the 2025 WNBA draft 24 G 5'11" Edmond, Oklahoma Transferred to Wisconsin
Incoming transfers
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous school 2 G 6'0" Forestville, Maryland Connecticut 12 G 6'2" Phoenix, Arizona Vanderbilt
Recruiting class
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Roster
Schedule and results
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Rankings
*AP did not release a week 8 poll.
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