Navy Women's Basketball

25/06/2026

Congratulations to our own Maren Louridas!
The Naval Academy's 2025-26 Captain of Captains is this year's female recipient of the Patriot League Award of Outstanding Leadership and Character!

Navy women's basketball's Maren Louridas along with Bucknell's men's soccer's Freddie Lapworth were named the recipients of the 2025-26 Patriot League Award of Outstanding Leadership and Character. Louridas and Lapworth were selected by the administrators of the League's Student-Athlete Advisory Com...

27/03/2026

The accolades continue to roll in for Zanai Barnett-Gay as she was selected to the 2025-26 All-ECAC First Team! The talented guard has now collected AP Honorable Mention All-American honors, as well as the Patriot League Player & Defensive Player of the Yr

The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) recently announced its year-end awards and Navy's Zanai Barnett-Gay was near the top of the press release as the junior guard was selected as a member of the 2025-26 All-ECAC First Team. An Honorable Mention AP All-American, the talented guard was recog...

18/03/2026

WBIT Action at Harvard awaits Navy Women's Basketball on Thursday night. The Mids and Crimson are meeting for the first time since 2010. Tip-off in Cambridge is set for 7 PM.

The Navy women's basketball team begins its postseason journey on Thursday night with action in the 2026 Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament (WBIT). One of 32 teams competing in the NCAA sanctioned tournament that focuses on regular season champions and teams that just missed the NCAA Tournam...

18/03/2026

A historic day for Navy Women's Basketball ... Zanai Barnett-Gay was announced on Wednesday as an Honorable Mention AP All-American!
The Patriot League Player and Defensive Player of the Year is the third All-American in program history

The rise of Zanai Barnett-Gay continues to garner attention from across the landscape of women's college basketball as the Associated Press announced the junior guard as a 2025-26 Honorable Mention AP All-American on Wednesday afternoon. After sweeping the Patriot League Player and Defensive Player....

16/03/2026

The 2026 WBIT bracket was announced Sunday night with Navy travelling to Harvard for Thursday showdown.
The Mids and Crimson are meeting for the first time since 2010.

The NCAA and Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament committee announced on Sunday evening the bracket for the 2026 WBIT. As the regular season champions of the Patriot League, the Navy women's basketball team was prominently featured as one of the events' 32 participants. One of 13 automatic qua...

16/03/2026

We're Shipping Up to Boston!
The WBIT bracket is out and Navy begins postseason play on Thursday at Harvard!

11/03/2026

Patriot League semifinal action versus Lehigh awaits Navy on Thursday night. The Mids will be looking to advance to their first PLT Championship Final since 2018. Tip-off at Navy's Alumni Hall is set for 7 PM.

Coming off a victory in Monday night's Patriot League Quarterfinals over the eighth-seeded Boston University Terriers, the top-seeded Navy women's basketball team turns its attention to a matchup versus the fourth-seeded Lehigh Mountain Hawks in the tournament semifinals at home on Thursday evening....

10/03/2026

Onto the Semifinals!!
Navy rides Zoe Mesuch’s hot hand to 76-66 Patriot League quarterfinal win over Boston University. The PL Rookie of the Year set a Patriot League Tournament record with eight three-pointers as part of her career-high 31 points.

The top-seeded Navy women's basketball team had a battle on its hands Monday night in the quarterfinals of the 2025-26 Patriot League Tournament with a showdown versus the eighth-seeded Boston University Terriers. Trailing by one point through one quarter of play and two with three-and-a-half minute...

09/03/2026

Maren Louridas secures her third straight Patriot League All-Academic Team nod. The senior team captain is the first player in program history to earn this honor three times.

After sweeping the major on-court playing honors from the Patriot League for the 2025-26 season on Friday, the Navy women's basketball team was back in the news on Monday as senior Maren Louridas was announced as a member of the 2025-26 Patriot League All-Academic Team. Recognized for the third stra...

09/03/2026

Patriot League Tournament action begins for Navy Women's Basketball on Monday night. The top-seeded Mids are set to host the eighth-seeded BU Terriers at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall.

After a historic regular season, the Navy women's basketball team embarks on Monday on a postseason journey that the Mids hope is just as successful and loaded with memorable moments. First up for the top-seeded Midshipmen (21-7) is a Patriot League Tournament Quarterfinal showdown against the eight...