Carolina University Bruins Womens Basketball

The 2025–26 UCLA Bruins women's basketball team represents the University of California, Los Angeles during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bruins are led by head coach Cori Close in her fifteenth year, and play their home games at Pauley Pavilion. In the preseason, the Bruins were voted the favorite to win the Big Ten conference, with senior center Lauren Betts named the 2025-26 Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year. Betts and senior guard Kiki Rice were named to the All-Big Ten preseason conference team. Laren Betts was named to the Associated Press Preseason All-America team. In November 2025, the first month of the season, the Bruins faced ranked teams in Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, going 3-1, and won their other games, to establish their ranking in the top 5. Past the mid-point of the conference schedule at the end of January 2026, the Bruins had defeated 10 conference teams, including four ranked teams, to solidify a number 2 national ranking. The entire starting lineup was projected to be taken in the first round of the WNBA draft. The Bruins clinched a share of the Big Ten conference title on February 19, 2026 by defeating Washington.