The 2025–26 Fairfield Stags women's basketball team represented Fairfield University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Stags, led by fourth-year head coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis, played their home games at Leo D. Mahoney Arena in Fairfield, Connecticut as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Previous season The Stags finished the 2024–25 season 28–5, 19–1 in MAAC play, to finish as MAAC regular season champions. They would defeat Manhattan, Mount St. Mary's and Quinnipiac to win the MAAC tournament and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. They received the #12 seed in the Spokane Regional 4, where they would fall to #4 region seed Kansas State in the first round.
Preseason On September 30, 2025, the MAAC released their preseason coaches poll. Fairfield was picked to finish atop the conference, receiving all thirteen first-place votes.
Preseason rankings MAAC preseason pollPredicted finishTeamVotes (1st place) 1 Fairfield 169 (13) 2 Quinnipac 155 3 Mount St. Mary's 132 4 Marist 128 5 Siena 103 6 Iona 100 7 Manhattan 95 8 Merrimack 76 9 Canisius 69 10 Saint Peter's 51 11 Niagara 48 12 Sacared Heart 43 13 Rider 13
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Preseason All-MAAC First Team Preseason All-MAAC TeamPlayerYearPosition Meghan Andersen Junior Forward Janelle Brown Graduate StudentGuard Catarina Ferreira Junior Source:
Roster
Schedule and results
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Rankings
*AP did not release a week 8 poll.
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