2025–26 UC San Diego Tritons women's basketball team
| 2025–26 UC San Diego Tritons women's basketball | |
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| Conference | Big West Conference |
| Record | 3–4 (0–0 Big West) |
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| Associate head coach | Vanessa Nygaard |
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| Home arena | LionTree Arena |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Santa Barbara | 2 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 10 | – | 1 | .909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Irvine | 2 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 11 | – | 2 | .846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Fullerton | 2 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 5 | – | 6 | .455 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Davis | 1 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC San Diego | 1 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 6 | – | 5 | .545 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Northridge | 1 | – | 1 | .500 | 5 | – | 6 | .455 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Riverside | 1 | – | 1 | .500 | 2 | – | 9 | .182 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hawai'i | 0 | – | 2 | .000 | 6 | – | 5 | .545 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal State Bakersfield | 0 | – | 2 | .000 | 5 | – | 7 | .417 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Poly | 0 | – | 2 | .000 | 2 | – | 9 | .182 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State | 0 | – | 2 | .000 | 0 | – | 11 | .000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2026 Big West tournament winner As of December 22, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025–26 UC San Diego Tritons women's basketball team will represent the University of California, San Diego during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Tritons, led by 14th-year head coach Heidi VanDerveer, play their home games at LionTree Arena in La Jolla, California, as members of the Big West Conference.
This is the second year the team will be eligible for the NCAA tournament.
Previous season
The Tritons finished the 2024–25 season 20–16, 13–7 in Big West play to finish in a tie for third place.[1] They received the 4 seed in the Big West tournament, where they won over Cal Poly in the quarterfinals, Hawai'i in the semifinals and UC Davis in the championship game to win the Big West championship and clinch the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[2] It marked UC San Diego's first NCAA D1 Tournament appearance. They were seeded as the No.16 seed in the Spokane 1 region,[3] where they fell to Southern in the first four.[4]
Offseason
Departures
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure |
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| Grace Talbot | 2 | G | 5'7" | Junior | Littleton, CO | Graduated |
| Sumayah Sugapong | 3 | G | 5'7" | Sophomore | San Diego, CA | Transferred to Arizona[5] |
| Meaali'i Amosa | 13 | F | 6'1" | Senior | Garden Grove, CA | Graduated |
Incoming transfers
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure |
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Recruits
Preseason
Big West Conference Preseason Poll
The Big West Conference released its preseason coaches' poll on October 16, 2025. The Tritons were predicted to finish fourth in the conference with 77 points and two first place votes.[6]
Big West Preseason All-Big West Team
Roster
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Schedule and results
| Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | High points | High rebounds | High assists | Site (attendance) city, state | |||
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| November 28, 2025* 7:00 p.m., B1G+ |
at No. 22 Washington | L 50–67 | 3–4 |
19 – Smith | 15 – Condron | 3 – Smith | Alaska Airlines Arena (2,530) Seattle, WA | ||||
| December 6, 2025 1:00 p.m., SPECSN |
Long Beach State | LionTree Arena San Diego, CA | |||||||||
Sources:[7]
References
- ^ "Big West Championship Begins Against Cal Poly". UC San Diego. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
- ^ "CHAMPIONS! Tritons Earn First Big West Tournament Crown". UC San Diego. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Tritons Face Southern in First Four of NCAA Tournament". UC San Diego. Retrieved March 18, 2025.
- ^ "Tritons' Historic Run Ends in NCAA Tournament". UC San Diego. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
- ^ "Arizona Women's Basketball Welcomes UC San Diego Transfer Sumayah Sugapong". Arizona Wildcats. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
- ^ "Hawai'i Selected as Preseason Favorites for 2025-26 Women's Basketball Title". The Big West. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
- ^ "2024-25 Women's Basketball Schedule". UC San Diego. Retrieved October 23, 2025.