That didn't take long. A top-10 upset helped tip off the opening day of the 2025-26 women's college basketball season. The No. 7 Duke Blue Devils , an Elite Eight team last season, fell 58-52 to the No. 16 Baylor Bears in the opener of the Oui-Play doubleheader in Paris.

Then one of the brightest stars of last season's freshman class, Mikayla Blakes , picked up where she left off, leading the No. 19 Vanderbilt Commodores over the California Golden Bears 75-65. Her 27-point effort in Oui-Play marked her 11th career game of 25 points or more, including two 50-plus-point outings last season.

As the rest of opening day played out, Ta'Niya Latson made her debut in Columbia, and last season's Final Four participants South Carolina , Texas and UCLA all won in blowouts. Here's

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