The Indiana Hoosiers women’s basketball team will enter the 2025-26 season unranked in this year’s preseason AP Poll.
Head coach Teri Moren enters her 11th season in Bloomington after reaching the NCAA Tournament for the sixth-straight season losing to No. 1 South Carolina back to back seasons. Moren is 246-112 in 11 years at the helm in Indiana.
The Hoosiers enter the season with a huge makeover, having just five players returning from last year, including Lenée Beaumont and Sydney Fenn, who both missed the entire season. They lost Chloe Moore-McNeil, Sydney Parrish, and Karoline Striplin to graduation, and then saw six players enter the transfer portal.
Guard Shay Ciezki is the only returning starter, the senior guard averaged 11.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists, shooting 46.0% from the field last season. Ciezki was an All-Big Ten honorable mention selection in 2023-24.
“We did have to put together a roster, and go into the portal and figure out the pieces where it could help us become more athletic, for sure. And we wanted it to make sense systematically, still, for us, in terms of how we wanted to play, how we wanted to guard,” Moren said during IU’s preseason media availability. “The things that were and have always been important to us are the things that are always going to be important to us. And we didn’t change that, stylistically.”
Indiana finished last season with a 20-13 overall record and 10-8 in Big Ten conference play. They made a sixth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance as a No. 9 seed and defeated No. 8 Utah in the Round of 64. IU's season ended against No. 3 South Carolina in the Round of 32.
There are sixth Big Ten teams ranked in the top 25.
Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball will open their 2025-26 season at home against Lipscomb on November 4th at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.
AP Poll (Preseason; Oct. 14)
- UConn
- South Carolina
- UCLA
- Texas
- LSU
- Oklahoma
- Duke
- Tennessee
- NC State
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- Ole Miss
- Michigan
- Iowa State
- Notre Dame
- Baylor
- TCU
- USC
- Vanderbilt
- Louisville
- Iowa
- Oklahoma State
- Michigan State
- Kentucky
- Richmond