Arizona women’s basketball has received a blow heading into the final three weeks of the 2025-26 season. On Sunday, Arizona guard Mickayla Perdue announce that her collegiate career has come to end via her social media.
“This isn’t how I imagined it finishing, but injuries are part of the game,” wrote Perdue in her social media release. “I gave this game my heart, and I walk away proud, grateful, and forever a hooper.”
Purdue made her way to Tucson after beginning her career at Toledo, with stops at Glenville State, and Cleveland State. The 2022-23 All-MEC First Team selection and Division II 3-point leader helped Glenville State reach the NCAA DII Final Four, before returning to DI. In two seasons with the Vikings, Perdue earned Horizon League Newcomer of the Year (2024) and Player of the Year (2025) honors, helping secure a WNIT bid last season.
The sixth-year senior was brought to Arizona under first-year head coach Becky Burke as a scorer, and more than delivered before getting hurt. Though Perude has not appeared in the last 10 games for the Wildcats, she is still the teams leading scorer. Micky averaged 17.1 points in 15 games, including the first four Big 12 matchups of the season. She connected on 44.2 percent of her shots from the field, including 35.0% percent from 3-point range.
Perdue has not closed the door on a return to basketball at the professional level, writing “this one just means my playing days at the college level are over” in her social media announcement.
The Wildcats return to action on Tuesday, February 17 versus the Colorado Buffaloes, before facing Baylor, Houston, and Utah to round out the regular season.