The Washington Huskies women's basketball team is coming off its best season in nearly a decade.

The Huskies won an NCAA tournament game for the first time since 2017 before ultimately falling 72-69 in overtime to the TCU Horned Frogs in the Round of 32.

Washington will have an opportunity to exceed even that point in the 2026-27 season after returning the majority of its top players and landing significant additions in the transfer portal.

Despite the Huskies having an impressive roster for next season, it still wasn't able to retain all the players from its Round of 32 season.

Washington lost several players over the offseaon. Several graduated and several more entered the transfer portal.

Guard Hannah Stines, a senior in the 2025-26 season, was one of the players who ran out of eligibility.

Stines was a Class of 2022 player for the Huskies, the first full recruiting class under current head coach Tina Langley. Fellow senior guard and former Big Ten all-conference selection Elle Ladine was a member of the same class.

The 5-foot-11 guard played in 130 games and started 98 in her four years in the Pacific Northwest and started all but one game she played from her sophomore to senior seasons.

Stines averaged 6.8 points across 33 games (32 starts) last season on 37.2% shooting from the floor. She also averaged 4.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.2 steals.

Despite running out of eligibility this past season, the former Washington guard is apparently looking for one more year of college ball.

Stines was one of several men's and women's basketball players who collectively filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Friday looking for a fifth year of eligibility.

The lawsuit stems from a change in the NCAA's eligibility rules, which changed in June.

Under the previous NCAA rules, players were allowed four years of eligibility, which didn't include redshirts or medical waivers.

The new rules extends the eligibility to five years. Current players and Class of 2026 recruits can choose to follow either the previous or current NCAA rules. But Class of '22 players, like Stines, were not grandfathered into the new eligibility changes. Athletes enrolling in the 2027-28 academic year will be exclusively under the new rules.

Stines and the rest of the potential plaintiffs in this lawsuit aren't the first to challenge the NCAA's new policy changes. Players in Ohio and California also filed lawsuits, with a judge in the former state filing an injunction in favor of the players.

If Stines were granted an extra year of eligibility, and she opts to return to Washington, it could bolster a roster even further that already is shaping out to be one of the best in the Big Ten next season.

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