Dawn Staley’s South Carolina and Kim Mulkey’s LSU are projected to clash for the SEC women’s basketball title again.

Mikayla Blakes' return is the highlight for Vanderbilt women's basketball in 2025-26. Here's what you need to know.

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU women’s basketball players Flau’jae Johnson, Mikaylah Williams and newcomer MiLaysia Fulwiley received recognition Wednesday from the league’s coaches as selections for the preseason All-SEC teams.

T exas women's basketball coach Vic Schaefer is used to encountering sharks during his summer outings chasing speckled trout and redfish at Port O'Connor. He goes wade fishing, which means he stands in the water among the sandbar sharks, blacktip sharks and bull sharks that linger in the area.

The Longhorns burst into the SEC last season by ending the Gamecocks' long league winning streak and earning a share of of the regular-season championship behind player of the year Madison Booker. Texas then stormed to its first Final Four in 22 years, only to get bounced out by South Carolina.

See who USA TODAY Sports Network predicted to win the SEC women's basketball regular-season championship and order of finish for the 2025-26 season

The lasting images of the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season include UConn celebrating its 12th national championship, JuJu Watkins falling to the floor in pain and South Carolina’s SEC dominance. Those storylines will cast a shadow over this season as questions about each team are the most intriguing before the 2025-26 season begins.

LSU’s MiLaysia Fulwiley was named to the Nancy Lieberman Award Watchlist Monday by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as one of the Top-20