The 2025–26 Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball team represents Eastern Kentucky University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Colonels, led by fifth-year head coach Greg Todd, play their home games at Baptist Health Arena in Richmond, Kentucky, with two non-conference home games being played at the Seabury Center on the campus of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky and one non-conference game at the Clive M. Beck Center on the campus of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Previous season The Colonels finished the 2024–25 season 20–11, 10–8 in ASUN play, to finish in a tie for fourth place. They defeated Stetson, before falling to top-seeded and eventual tournament champions Florida Gulf Coast in the semifinals of the ASUN tournament.
Preseason On October 17, 2025, the Atlantic Sun Conference released their preseason coaches and media polls. Eastern Kentucky was picked to finish fifth in the coaches poll, with one first-place vote, and fourth in the media poll, with two first-place votes.
Preseason rankings
+ASUN Preseason Coaches' Poll Place Team Votes 1 128 (6) 2 124 (3) 3 118 (1) 4 98 5 Eastern Kentucky 97 (1) 6 77 7 73 8 61 9 49 10 48 11 37 (1) 12 26
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+ASUN Preseason Media Poll Place Team Votes 1 Florida Gulf Coast 474 (36) 2 Central Arkansas 416 3 Lipscomb 370 4 Eastern Kentucky 368 (2) 5 Stetson 308 6 North Alabama 240 7 Jacksonville 238 8 Bellarmine 216 9 Austin Peay 172 10 West Georgia 146 11 North Florida 88 12 Queens 84
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Roster
Schedule and results
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!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=""| ASUN regular season
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