Prior to the start of the 2025-26 season, 12 NCAA Division II women's basketball programs have won at least 1,000 games all-time.
With two more victories, Ashland University's women's basketball program will become the 13
th.
The Eagles will open the new campaign with two in-region games at the Sherrill Hudson Court at Kates Gymnasium – Friday (Nov. 14) at 2 p.m. vs. Indianapolis, and Saturday (Nov. 15) at 5 p.m. vs. Wayne State. The game against the Warriors would be the earliest Ashland's women could reach four-figure all-time victories.
But what else has Ashland women's basketball done in the near six decades of NCAA competition?
.907. Head coach
Kari Pickens' .907 career head coaching winning percentage (205-21 record) is the highest in the history of NCAA women's basketball, minimum 225 games.
1. Pickens has the program's only triple-double on Jan. 5, 2012 – posting 12 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists against Findlay.
2 and 3. Ashland is the only Division II women's basketball program with two 37-0 seasons, and the only one with three undefeated campaigns.
3. The Eagles have won three Division II national championships (2013, 2017 and 2023). That is tied for the second most in the division for women's basketball programs.
17. Ashland women's basketball players have earned 17 Academic All-America awards – second-most in NCAA history at all levels to Stanford's 18.
20. There have been 16 20-win seasons in program history. The first of those came in 1975-76, as head coach
Ruth Jones guided then-Ashland College to a 20-6 mark, with a fourth-place finish in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Small College National Tournament, as well.
31. The 2025-26 season will be the 31
st in which Ashland has had just three head coaches –
Sue Ramsey (1995-2015),
Robyn Fralick (2015-18) and
Pickens (2018-current).
34. Pickens recorded a D-II-record 34 consecutive double-doubles from Jan. 28, 2012 to Jan. 2, 2013.
59. This is the 59
th season of Ashland women's basketball – starting in 1967-68 with a 6-1 record for head coach
Jean Hofstetter.
68. In the D-II coaches poll, the Eagles have been the top-ranked team in the country 68 times.
73. Ashland set a new D-II women's basketball record by winning 73 consecutive games from Nov. 11, 2016 to March 21, 2018. During the streak, the Eagles scored at least 100 points 30 times.
359. The Eagles have won 359 games as a ranked team in the coaches poll in D-II.
422. Ashland has won 422 games over the last 14 seasons, an average of a little more than 30 wins per year. That win total also is the number that Pickens has been involved with as a player, assistant coach and head coach – most in program history.
1,200. The first Eagle to score 1,200 career points was
Gail Wasmus, who ended with that number after finishing her career in 1976.
Annie Roshak, whose career finished nearly 50 years later in 2024, almost doubled that number to become the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,370 career points.
