COLBY, Kan. – Defending NJCAA Division 2 women’s basketball National Champions Johnson County Community College has been unanimously picked to win their sixth consecutive Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Division 2 Women’s Basketball regular season title in a vote of league coaches ahead of the 2025-26 season.

All seven head coaches in the KJCCC participated in the preseason poll, with the Cavaliers receiving a perfect 49-point total along with all seven first-place votes to easily outpace second-place team Allen Community College. The Red Devils finished last season as NJCAA Region 6 Tournament runners-up and received 38 total points and three second-place votes while being picked to finish no lower than third by any of the seven head coaches.

Johnson County went a perfect 30-0 in the regular season last year before suffering their lone setback in the NJCAA Region 6 Tournament semifinals to Region 6 Tournament Champions and National Tournament qualifier Highland Community College. The Cavaliers went on to win four-straight games at the NJCAA Division 2 National Tournament, culminating in a 75-67 victory in the NJCAA Division 2 Women’s Basketball National Title game over Pima Community College to win its third National Championship in program history.

Picked to finish third in the KJCCC D2 Women’s Basketball predicted order of finish is Neosho County with 32 total points followed by Kansas City Kansas Community College in fourth place with 26 total points. The Panthers went 19-8 overall last year and finished tied for second in the KJCCC D2 women’s basketball regular season standings while the Blue Devils are looking to bounce back from last year’s 14-16 mark that saw them finish fifth in the KJCCC. Rounding out the predicted order of finish is Fort Scott (20 points) in fifth, along with Highland (sixth, 16 points) and Labette (seventh, 15 points).

The 2025-26 women’s basketball season will get underway on Friday, October 31st with four of the seven league teams playing on the opening day of the season. All seven teams will have their season officially started by November 3rd as non-conference action will take place throughout the opening two months of the season before seeing KJCCC play begin on Wednesday, January 14th with three conference clashes to begin a 12-game home-and-home double-round-robin schedule for each of the seven schools.

Postseason play will begin on Tuesday, March 3rd, with the top overall seed receiving a bye to the semifinals while teams seeded two, three, and four will host the bottom three teams in the final regular season standings. The semifinals and finals of the 2026 NJCAA Division 2 Women’s Basketball Plains District Tournament will take place March 6-7 on the campus of Kansas City Kansas Community College inside the KCKCC Field House with the NJCAA Division 2 Women’s Basketball National Tournament slated to take place March 16-21, 2026, in Hickory, North Carolina.