The 2025–26 Richmond Spiders women's basketball team represented the University of Richmond during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Spiders, led by seventh-year head coach Aaron Roussell, played their home games at the Robins Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10).

Previous season The Spiders finished the 2024–25 season with an overall record of 28–7, including 17–1 in regular-season A-10 play, to win the outright regular-season championship for the second straight season. In the A-10 women's tournament, they earned the No. 1 seed and received first- and second-round byes before defeating No. 9 seed Duquesne in the quarterfinals and falling to No. 4 seed Saint Joseph's in the semifinals. Despite failing to secure an automatic bid through the A-10 tournament, the Spiders earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Spiders earned an 8-seed in the NCAA tournament, where they defeated 9-seed Georgia Tech in the first round in Los Angeles, California before falling to 1-seed UCLA in the second round.

Preseason In a preseason poll of league head coaches, Richmond was voted to repeat as champion of the Atlantic 10 Conference for a third straight season in 2025–26. Forward Maggie Doogan, the reigning A-10 Player of the Year, and guard Rachel Ullstrom were selected first-team preseason all-conference, while guard Ally Sweeney was named to the second team and transfer forward Tierra Simon was named to the third team.

+Atlantic 10 Preseason Poll Place Team Votes 1 188 (9) 2 185 (4) 3 167 (1) 4 Rhode Island 137 5 123 6 120 7 110 8 95 9 86 10 75 11 63 12 56 13 43 14 22

Preseason All-A10 Teams FirstMaggie DooganSeniorForwardFirstRachel UllstromSeniorGuardSecondAlly SweeneyJuniorGuard

The Spiders were ranked No. 19 in the ESPN Preseason Top 25 and tied at No. 24 in the AP Preseason Poll.

Roster

Schedule Richmond's 2025–26 non-conference schedule featured 13 games, including a pair of games in the Cancun Classic at the end of November and another pair in the 4 Tha Culture Holiday Classic in December.

In the Atlantic 10 portion of the schedule, Richmond played a total of 18 games, including both home and away games against Davidson, Rhode Island, George Mason, St. Bonaventure and VCU. In addition, Richmond hosted Loyola Chicago, Duquesne, La Salle and Fordham, while the Spiders traveled to Saint Louis, Dayton, George Washington and Saint Joseph's.

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Rankings

*AP did not release a week 8 poll.

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