The 2025–26 Missouri State Lady Bears basketball team represents Missouri State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Bears, led by fourth-year head coach Beth Cunningham, play their home games at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri as first-year members of Conference USA.
Previous season The Lady Bears finished the 2024–25 season 26–9, 16–4 in MVC play, to finish as MVC regular season co-champions, alongside Murray State. They defeated UIC, before falling to Belmont in the semifinals of the MVC tournament. They received an at-large bid to the WBIT, where they would defeat Oral Roberts in the first round, before falling to eventual tournament champions Minnesota in the second round.
Preseason On October 9, 2025, Conference USA released their preseason poll. Missouri State was picked to finish fourth in the conference.
Preseason rankings +Conference USA Preseason Poll Place Team Votes 1 128 (5) 2 125 (5) 3 123 (2) 4 Missouri State 107 5 96 6 74 7 59 T-8 57 10 51 11 36 12 23
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Roster
Schedule and results
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!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season
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