The 2025–26 Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's basketball team represented Wake Forest University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Demon Deacons were led by fourth-year head coach Megan Gebbia, and competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They played their home games at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The Demon Deacons started the season by winning their first six games in a row, all against non-Power 4 opponents, and all at home. The closest games of the stretch were a five-point win over Mercer and a three-point victory over North Carolina Central. The team then traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico to participate in the Puerto Rico Shootout. They won all three games there, including an overtime victory over UCF. They also recorded their first Power 4 win with a victory over Illinois. Their winning streak ended as they returned to North carolina and lost to William & Mary and Georgetown. Wake Forest began ACC play with a one-point victory over Georgia Tech and a three-point loss to Miami. After winning their final non-conference game, they also defeated Pittsburgh to start 2026. They went on to lose their next eight ACC games in a row. The streak included an overtime loss against Clemson and a triple-overtime loss against Virginia. The stretch saw the Demon Deacons face their first ranked team of the season, twentieth-ranked Duke. They broke the streak by defeating SMU 70–65. However, they could not convert that into a winning streak as they lost five of their last six ACC games. The lone win came against Boston College. They lost to twenty-fifth ranked North Carolina and ninth-ranked Louisville over the stretch. Their final regular season game of the season was a 74–77 overtime loss against Florida State.

The Demon Deacons finished the season 14–18 overall and 4–14 in ACC play to finish in fifteenth place. As the fifteenth seed in the 2026 ACC tournament they lost to tenth seed California in the First Round. They were invited to the WNIT, where they lost to Maryland Eastern Shore 59–48 in the First Round to end their season.

Previous season

The Demon Deacons finished the season 9–20 overall and 2–16 in ACC play to finish in a tie for seventeenth place. Under the new ACC tournament rules, they did not qualify for the 2025 ACC tournament. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the WBIT.

Off-season

Departures Departures 0 G 6'0" Woodbridge, Virginia Graduated; entered transfer portal 1 G 5'9" Owings Mills, Maryland — 5 F 6'3" Wilkesboro, North Carolina Transferred to Notre Dame 11 G 6'0" Chattanooga, Tennessee Graduated 14 G 5'9" Tenafly, New Jersey Transferred to Georgia 21 G 5'9" Raleigh, North Carolina Graduated 25 F 6'2" Douglasville, Georgia Transferred to Clemson

Incoming transfers Incoming Transfers 1 G 5'11" Greensboro, North Carolina Elon 13 F 6'1" Norwell, Massachusetts Colorado 14 G/F 6'3" Rocklin, California Cal Poly

Recruiting class

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Roster

Schedule

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