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 1981âÂÂ82 school year; it began recording assists in Division I in 1984âÂÂ85.
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 1984âÂÂ85 and 1987âÂÂ88. 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 four 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 (1986âÂÂ87 to 1988âÂÂ89), and four players who competed in five seasons: Lauren Park-Lane (2019âÂÂ20 to 2023âÂÂ24), Emily Ryan, Georgia Amoore (both 2020âÂÂ21 to 2024âÂÂ25), and the currently active Olivia Miles (since 2020âÂÂ21). The latter four benefited from a blanket NCAA waiver that did not count the 2020âÂÂ21 season, heavily disrupted by COVID-19, against the eligibility of any basketball player. Miles also benefited from an NCAA hardship waiver, popularly known as a "medical redshirt", due to missing the entire 2023âÂÂ24 season to injury.
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 â FIU with Nagy and Dalma Iványi, and Iowa with Clark and Samantha Logic. The aforementioned Park-Lane, Miles, and Amoore are the only individuals in the top 25 to have played at more than one school. All played four seasons at their original schools (Park-Lane at Seton Hall, Miles at Notre Dame, Amoore at Virginia Tech) before transferring for their final seasons (respectively to Mississippi State, TCU, and Kentucky).
Of the top 25, four were born outside the United StatesâÂÂNagy and Iványi in Hungary, Freil in Denmark, and Amoore in Australia.
Current through games of March 20, 2026.