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Team: Villanova Wildcats
2025-26 Record: 25-8, 16-4 Big East
2025-26 Big East Finish: Second, four games behind UConn, and four games ahead of a tie between Seton Hall and Marquette.
Final 2025-26 Rankings
NET: #35
Her Hoop Stats: #36
BartTorvik.com: #28
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Postseason? Villanova toppled Providence and Seton Hall in the Big East tournament for the right to lose by 39 points to UConn in the title game. Their record was good enough to make them the only non-UConn team from the Big East that made it to the NCAA tournament, although they ended up sneaking in as a #10 seed and then took a 57-52 loss to #7 seed Texas Tech in the first round.
Notable Departures: Villanova is losing just one starter from an NCAA tournament team. That’s Denae Carter, who had a senior year remarkably similar to her junior year. 8.6 points per game both seasons, her rebounds dipped a little bit to a very good 5.0 per game but assists went up to 2.2 a night and steals bumped up to 1.5 per contest, too. 21.9 minutes per game as a junior, 20.7 as a senior. She even went out on a high note shooting the ball, getting a career high 52.5% overall to fall but also hitting 10 of her 23 three-point attempts (43.5%) after only trying eight in her three previous seasons of action.
Villanova loses three more rotation players, two of which were seniors and one was a freshman. The seniors are Ryanne Allen and Kylee Watson, and Allen had the bigger role. She appeared in 32 of 33 games and averaged just short of 19 minutes a night. Villanova wasn’t asking Allen to do much, as she averaged 7.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, and just over an assist per game. She did shoot 44% on 3.6 three-pointer attempts per game, and merely having that kind of threat out there for nearly half the game does a lot of work for you on offense. Watson’s season appears to have been hampered by the eight games she missed in November and December. She had been playing double digit minutes in VU’s first four games up to that point, and then…
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