The 2025–26 Virginia Tech Hokies women's basketball team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Hokies were led by second-year head coach Megan Duffy and played their home games at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Hokies began the season by winning five straight home non-conference games before the streak was broken at James Madison. The team then travelled to Saint Thomas to participate in the Paradise Jam. The Hokies finished in third place after losing to BYU by four points but defeating Oregon State. Virginia Tech returned to Cassell Coliseum to defeat Florida in the ACC–SEC Challenge. They opened ACC play with a loss to Duke before going on a four-game winning streak. The streak included an ACC victory over Florida State and the other games were non-conference match-ups. Their winning streak was broken on the first day of 2026 by Miami in overtime. They followed the loss with a loss against thirteenth-ranked Louisville. The Hokies were 1–3 in the ACC after the loss, but went on a seven-game winning streak to reach 8–3 in league play. All of the seven games were won by double-digits and it included three road victories. The final game of the streak was a rivalry victory over Virginia by twelve points. A pair of losses against Notre Dame and NC State by ten and twenty points, respectively, broke the streak. The Hokies went 4–1 over their final five games, only losing to twenty-second ranked North Carolina in overtime. They completed a road trip to Calfiornia with two victories over this streak, and finished the regular season with a one-point victory in the rivalry re-match against Virginia.

The Hokies finished the season 23–10 overall and 12–6 in ACC play to finish in a trhee-way tie for fifth place. As the sixth seed in the ACC tournament, they earned a bye to the second round, where they defeated eleventh seed Georgia Tech. The Hokies lost to third seed and sixteenth-ranked North Carolina in the Quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA touranment and were the ninth seed in the Fort Worth 3 regional. They lost to eighth-seed Oregon in the first round to end their season.

Previous season

The Hokies finished the season 19–13 overall and 9–9 in ACC play to finish in a tie for tenth place. As the eighth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost to ninth-seed Georgia Tech in the second round. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT and were the first seed in their section of the bracket. They defeated un-seeded North Carolina A&T before losing to also un-seeded Texas Tech 69–59 to end their season.

Off-season

Departures Departures 0 G 6'0" Irvine, California Transferred to Utah 4 F 6'2" Wayne, Michigan Graduated 11 G/F 6'2" Västerås, Sweden Graduated 21 F 6'4" Baltimore, Maryland Transferred to Rice 22 C 6'5" Louisville, Kentucky Transferred to Kansas State

Incoming transfers Incoming transfers 0 F 6'1" Denver, Colorado Texas Tech 21 G 5'11" Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Northwestern 31 G 5'10" Barrington, Illinois Purdue

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Roster

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