List of NCAA Division I women's basketball career assists leaders

In basketball, an assist is a pass to a teammate that directly leads to a score by field goal. The top 25 highest assists totals in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's basketball history are listed below. The NCAA did not immediately record assists throughout women's college basketball when it began sponsoring women's sports in the 1981–82 school year; it began recording assists in Division I in 1984–85.

The all-time leader in career assists is Suzie McConnell of Penn State. She recorded 1,307 assists in 128 games (10.21 per game average) between 1984–85 and 1987–88. Second on the list is Andrea Nagy of FIU, who compiled 1,165 assists. Only four other women have recorded 1,000 career assists at the Division I level: Caitlin Clark of Iowa (1,144), Courtney Vandersloot of Gonzaga (1,118), Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon (1,091), and Tine Freil of Pacific (1,088).

All but two of the players listed compiled their totals in the standard four seasons. The exceptions are Neacole Hall of Alabama State, who compiled 869 assists despite playing only three seasons in Division I (1986–87 to 1988–89), and Lauren Park-Lane, who played in five seasons (2019–20 to 2023–24). Park-Lane benefited from a blanket NCAA waiver that did not count the 2020–21 season, heavily disrupted by COVID-19, against the eligibility of any basketball player. Hall is also the all-time Division I leader in assists per game with 10.35, slightly ahead of McConnell's 10.21. In all, 16 of the top 25 players in career assists are also in the top 25 for assists per game.

Two schools have two players represented in the top 25 of the all-time career assists leader board — FIU with Nagy and Dalma Iványi, and Iowa with Clark and Samantha Logic. The aforementioned Park-Lane is the only individual in the top 25 to have played at more than one school; she played four years at Seton Hall before transferring to Mississippi State for her final season.

Key

Pos.	G	F	C	Ref.
Position	Guard	Forward	Center	References

^	Player still competing in NCAA Division I
*	Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Team (X)	Denotes the number of times a player from that team is represented on this list

Top 25 career assists leaders

Andrea Nagy is second on the all-time list with 1,165 assists.

Courtney Vandersloot compiled 1,118 assists, the fourth-most all-time.

Player	Pos.	Team	Career start	Career end	Games played	Assists	APG	Ref.
Suzie McConnell	G	Penn State	1984	1988	128	1,307	10.2
Andrea Nagy	G	FIU	1991	1995	125	1,165	9.3
Caitlin Clark	G	Iowa	2020	2024	139	1,144	8.2
Courtney Vandersloot	G	Gonzaga	2007	2011	136	1,118	8.2
Sabrina Ionescu	G	Oregon	2016	2020	142	1,091	7.7
Tine Freil	G	Pacific	1989	1993	111	1,088	9.8
Niya Johnson	G	Baylor	2012	2016	146	988	6.8
Shanya Evans	G	Providence	1987	1991	121	987	8.2
Temeka Johnson	G	LSU	2001	2005	129	945	7.3
Ticha Penicheiro	G	Old Dominion	1994	1998	133	939	7.1
La'Terrica Dobin	G	Northwestern State	2000	2004	113	921	8.2
Lauren Park-Lane	G	Seton Hall / Mississippi State	2019	2024	155	911	5.9
Yolanda Paige	G	West Virginia	2001	2005	120	902	7.5
Samantha Prahalis	G	Ohio State	2008	2012	133	901	6.8
Jackie Kemph	G	Saint Louis	2014	2018	132	899	6.8
Samantha Logic	G	Iowa (2)	2011	2015	135	898	6.7
Dalma Iványi	G	FIU (2)	1995	1999	106	896	8.5
Nancy Kennelly	G	Northwestern	1989	1993	116	892	7.7
Jamierra Faulkner	G	Southern Miss	2010	2014	124	883	7.1
Neacole Hall	G	Alabama State	1986	1989	84	869	10.3
Teresa Weatherspoon*	G	Louisiana Tech	1984	1988	131	858	6.5
Stephany Raines	G	Mercer	1988	1992	109	851	7.8
Sara Nord	G	Louisville	2000	2004	118	848	7.2
Erin Grant	G	Texas Tech	2002	2006	128	844	6.6
Kim Skala	G	East Tennessee State	1983	1987	106	842	7.9

References

General

• "Career Records: Assists" (PDF). 2019–20 Division I Women's Basketball Records. NCAA. p. 17. Retrieved December 13, 2019.

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