The 2025–26 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's basketball team represented Northern Arizona University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lumberjacks, led by first-year head coach Laura Dinkins, played their non-conference home games at the Rolle Activity Center, and their conference home games at Findlay Toyota Court, both in Flagstaff, Arizona, as members of the Big Sky Conference. The Lumberjacks finished the season 10–22, 6–12 in Big Sky play, to finish in seventh place. They were defeated by eight seed Montana in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky tournament.

Previous season The Lumberjacks finished the 2024–25 season 27–8, 16–2 in Big Sky play, to finish in second place. They defeated eight seed Sacramento State in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky tournament before being upset by six seed Montana in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT, where they defeated Arizona in the first round before falling to eventual tournament runner-up Belmont in the second round.

On March 24, 2025, it was announced that head coach Loree Payne would be leaving the program, after eight seasons, in order to take the head coaching position at Santa Clara. A little over a week later, on April 1, the school announced that they would be hiring Grand Canyon associate head coach and former NAU player Laura Dinkins as the team's new head coach.

Preseason On October 22, 2025, the Big Sky Conference released their preseason coaches and media poll. Northern Arizona was picked to finish tied for ninth in the coaches poll, and eighth in the media poll.

Preseason rankings

+Big Sky Preseason Coaches' Poll Place Team Votes 1 74 (5) 2 72 (3) 3 65 (1) 4 57 (1) 5 50 6 38 7 36 8 28 T-9 Northern Arizona 15

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+Big Sky Preseason Media Poll Place Team Votes 1 Montana State 238 (11) 2 Montana 224 (7) 3 Idaho 220 (7) 4 Sacramento State 177 (2) 5 Idaho State 161 6 Eastern Washington 123 7 Weber State 120 8 Northern Arizona 102 9 Northern Colorado 86 10 Portland State 34

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Preseason All-Big Sky Team No players were named to the All-Big Sky Team.

Roster

Schedule and results

!colspan=12 style=""| Exhibition

!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12 style=""| Big Sky regular season

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