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2024–25 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season
2024–25 Big Ten Conference women's basketball season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	18
TV partner(s)	Big Ten Network, Fox, FS1, Peacock
2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
Tournament
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2024–25 Big Ten women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Oregon	0	–	0	–	2	–	0	1.000
No. 25 Indiana	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Iowa	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
No. 18 Maryland	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Michigan State	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Minnesota	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
No. 23 Nebraska	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
No. 14 Ohio State	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Penn State	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Purdue	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Rutgers	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
No. 5 UCLA	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
No. 3 USC	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Washington	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Wisconsin	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	1.000
Illinois	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Michigan	0	–	0	–	0	–	1	.000
Northwestern	0	–	0	–	0	–	1	.000

† 2025 Big Ten tournament winner As of November 6, 2024 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2024–25 Big Ten women's basketball season will begin with practices in October 2024, followed by the start of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November 2024. The regular season will end in March of 2025.

The season will be the conference's first with 18 teams as four schools, Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington, joined the conference in August 2024.^[1]^[2]^[3] The conference announced that all teams will play 18 regular season conference games with each school playing one school both home and away, while facing 16 teams once.^[4] However, only 15 of the 18 teams will qualify for the Big Ten tournament.^[5]

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Iowa

On May 13, 2024, Lisa Bluder retired as head coach at Iowa after 24 years.^[6] Longtime Iowa associate head coach Jan Jensen was named Bluder's successor later that day.^[7]

Coaches

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Years at school	Overall record	Big Ten record	Big Ten titles	Big Ten Tournament titles	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Illinois	Shauna Green	Dayton	3	41–25	19–17	0	0	1	0	0
Indiana	Teri Moren	Indiana State	11	226–99	114–60	1	0	6	0	0
Iowa	Jan Jensen	Iowa (Assoc.)	1	0–0	0–0	2	5	18	2	0
Maryland	Brenda Frese	Minnesota	23	582–161	146–29*	6	5	20	3	1
Michigan	Kim Barnes Arico	St. John's (Asst.)	13	261–133	118–84	0	0	7	0	0
Michigan State	Robyn Fralick	Bowling Green	2	22–9	12–6	0	0	1	0	0
Minnesota	Dawn Plitzuweit	West Virginia	2	20–16	5–13	0	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	Amy Williams	South Dakota	9	137–111	69–72	0	0	3	0	0
Northwestern	Joe McKeown	George Washington	17	261–246	108–166	0	0	2	0	0
Ohio State	Kevin McGuff	Washington	12	198–102	103–57	4	1	7	0	0
Oregon	Kelly Graves	Gonzaga	11	223–100	0–0	0	0	5	0	0
Penn State	Carolyn Kieger	Marquette	4	63–86	25–66	0	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Katie Gearlds	Marian	4	51–45	21–32	0	0	1	0	0
Rutgers	Coquese Washington	Notre Dame (Assoc.)	3	20–44	7–29	0	0	0	0	0
UCLA	Cori Close	Florida State (Assoc.)	14	287–140	0–0	0	0	8	0	0
USC	Lindsay Gottlieb	Cleveland Cavaliers (Asst.)	4	62–32	0–0	0	0	2	0	0
Washington	Tina Langley	Rice	4	42–46	0–0	0	0	0	0	0
Wisconsin	Marisa Moseley	Boston University	4	34–56	17–36	0	0	0	0	0

Notes:

All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only.
Year at school includes 2024–25season.
Overall and Big Ten records are from time at current school and are through the beginning of the season.
Frese's ACC conference record excluded since Maryland began Big Ten Conference play in 2014–15.

Preseason

Preseason Big Ten poll

Prior to the conference's annual media day, conference standings were projected by a panel of writers.^[8]

Rank	Team
1	USC
2	UCLA
3	Ohio State
4	Maryland
5	Indiana

Preseason All-Big Ten

A select media panel named a preseason All-Big Ten team and player of the year.^[8]

Honor	Recipient
Preseason Player of the Year	JuJu Watkins, USC
Preseason All-Big Ten Team	Makira Cook, Illinois
	Hannah Stuelke, Iowa
	Lucy Olsen, Iowa
	Shyanne Sellers, Maryland
	Alexis Markowski, Nebraska
	Cotie McMahon, Ohio State
	Lauren Betts, UCLA
	Kiki Rice, UCLA
	JuJu Watkins, USC
	Kiki Iriafen, USC
	Serah Williams, Wisconsin