The 2025-26 All-Big Ten Women’s Basketball Teams were announced by the conference on Tuesday morning, and the Gophers were well represented. Four of Minnesota’s five starters were named All-Big Ten, and the fifth was honored as Minnesota’s sportsmanship league honor.
As you you expect from a team that finishes fourth in the conference and has all five starters averaging in double figures, the Minnesota Golden Gophers were well represented on the All-Big Ten Teams.
Junior Grace Grocholski was named
Second Team All-Big Ten by both the coaches and the media. Grocholski got off to an incredibly hot start for Minnesota and was the leading three point shooter not only in the conference but in the nation into January. Her outside shooting cooled down on her later in the season as teams began to key on her, but she still is second on the team averaging 12.5 points per game and is shooting 43% from three-point range this season which ranks her 5th in the Big Ten and 17th in the nation. Going into the postseason Grocholski has hit 214 career 3-pointers, ranking No. 7 all-time in Minnesota program history. She easily will jump into 4th place on that list by the end of the season surpassing Sara Scala, Destiny Pitts, and Linsday Lieser who sit at 214, 216 and 216 career three pointers made.
Sophomore Tori McKinney’s honors were split. She was named Second Team All-Big Ten by the conference coaches, but was only named Third Team All-Big Ten by the Big Ten media. She was named to the All-Big Ten Defensive Team by the coaches, but not by the media. McKinney leads Minnesota in scoring averaging 13.6 points per game, and also paces the Gophers with 50 steals on the season. Tori has four 20-point games this season, including a career-high 29 points against Michigan State. She has reached double figures in 19 of 25 games this season.
Senior Amaya Battle was named to the Third Team All-Big Ten teams by both the coaches and the media. She was also named to the All-Defensive Team but again only by the coaches. Battle has upped her all around game this season for Minnesota. She is averaging 10.9 points per game and leads the Gophers 216 rebounds (7.4 per game) and 105 assists (3.62 per game) while adding 35 steals. Battle passed Lindsay Whalen earlier this secod to rank 2nd all-ime in assists in Gopher history trailing only Debbie Hunter (1979-83), who ended her career with 633 assists. In addition, she is one of three active NCAA players with more than 1,000 career points, 700 career rebounds and 500 career assists. She is one of two Golden Gophers, besides Rachel Banham, in program history to record 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 500 assists in a career.
Redshirt Junior Mara Braun picked up an Honorable Mention All-Big Ten from the media, but not the coaches. In her first full season in three years recovering from a foot injury, Braun has not been as electric on the offensive end, but has rounded her game into an all-round player. Braun has been a beast defensively with 20 blocks to lead Minnesota and ranks second with 40 steals. She ranks third on the roster averaging 11.7 points per game and has grabbed 125 rebounds, a career high for a single season.
5th year senior Sophie Hart was Minnesota’s Sportsmanship Honoree from the conference. Hart has made 95 consecutive starts since joining the Maroon and Gold in 2023-24. This season, she is averaging 10.9 points per game and has recorded three double-doubles and is second on the team with 179 rebounds on the season. She is averaging 3.38 offensive rebounds per game in helping the Gophers be the fourth best offensive rebounding team in the conference.
Minnesota will return to action in the Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals on Friday afternoon in Indianapolis. The #4 seeded Gophers will play the winner of the Thursday game between the winner of Wednesday’s Nebraska vs Indiana game and #5 seeded Ohio State.
