Where 2025-26 women's basketball players came from
No state leads college women's basketball: Pennsylvania and New York are effectively level at the top, and we won't rank them.
Out of 11,604 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
828 schools' 2025-26 women's basketball rosters, 11,604 players. We don't say what share of all programs that is — no authoritative count of programs exists.
Not a ranking. The top states here are within 0.7 of a percentage point of each other — Pennsylvania, New York are effectively level. 77 players separate the top two, and a lead that small would need about 78 players before we'd call anyone first. So read the bars as sizes, not as places 1, 2, 3.
- Outside the U.S.977 players · 8.4%
- Pennsylvania797 players · 6.9%
- New York720 players · 6.2%
- Texas611 players · 5.3%
- California587 players · 5.1%
- Illinois493 players · 4.2%
- New Jersey450 players · 3.9%
- Ohio433 players · 3.7%
- Minnesota418 players · 3.6%
- North Carolina393 players · 3.4%
- Wisconsin351 players · 3.0%
- Georgia350 players · 3.0%
- Virginia327 players · 2.8%
- Maryland281 players · 2.4%
- Florida275 players · 2.4%
- Home state unknown411 players · 3.5%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
38 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 11,604 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
977 of the 11,604 players we read listed a home town outside the U.S. Shares below are out of those 977.
- Spain183 players · 18.7%
- Canada166 players · 17.0%
- Australia156 players · 16.0%
- France51 players · 5.2%
- New Zealand39 players · 4.0%
- Sweden33 players · 3.4%
- United Kingdom33 players · 3.4%
- Germany26 players · 2.7%
- Turkey25 players · 2.6%
- Serbia23 players · 2.4%
24 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 977 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
How to read this
Each bar is the number of players on a 2025-26 college women's basketball roster whose listed home town is in that state. It is not a count of recruits, offers, or scholarships, and it says nothing about your own odds — it's simply where the players currently on rosters grew up.
We don't call a state first here. Pennsylvania, New York are within a percentage point of each other, and 77 players separate the top two — a "#1" that a handful of players would overturn isn't a fact, so we don't print one.
The unknown bar matters. 411 women's basketball players (3.5%) are on rosters that didn't list a readable home town. We show them because a chart with no leftovers is usually a chart someone tidied up.
Source: official athletics roster pages, 2025-26 season, read August 4, 2026.