USA Today Women’s Top 25 Preseason Poll
The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 women’s basketball preseason poll, with first-place votes received in parenthesis, team’s RECORDS FROM LAST YEAR, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th and ranking in last years’s final poll:
| Record | Pts | Pvs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LSU (29) | 34-2 | 797 | 1 |
| 2. Connecticut (3) | 31-6 | 727 | 9 |
| 3. Iowa | 31-7 | 713 | 2 |
| 4. South Carolina | 36-1 | 671 | 3 |
| 5. Virginia Tech | 31-5 | 617 | 4 |
| 6. Ohio State | 28-8 | 598 | 6 |
| 7. Utah | 27-5 | 565 | 8 |
| 8. UCLA | 27-10 | 555 | 13 |
| 9. Indiana | 28-4 | 534 | 7 |
| 10. Notre Dame | 27-6 | 511 | 11 |
| 11. Maryland | 28-7 | 451 | 5 |
| 12. Tennessee | 25-12 | 431 | 20 |
| 13. Stanford | 29-6 | 427 | 10 |
| 14. Texas | 26-10 | 357 | 19 |
| 15. Louisville | 26-12 | 309 | 14 |
| 16. Mississippi | 25-9 | 304 | 22 |
| 17. North Carolina | 22-11 | 278 | 21 |
| 18. Colorado | 25-9 | 212 | 15 |
| 19. Duke | 26-7 | 152 | 16 |
| 20. Baylor | 20-13 | 151 | NR |
| 21. Southern California | 21-10 | 138 | NR |
| 22. Florida State | 23-10 | 128 | NR |
| 23. Oklahoma | 26-7 | 95 | 17 |
| 23. Creighton | 22-9 | 95 | NR |
| 25. Miami (Fla.) | 22-13 | 75 | 18 |
Dropped Out: No. 12 Villanova (30-7); No. 24 Florida Gulf Coast (33-4); No. 25 Iowa State (22-10).
Others receiving votes: Mississippi State (22-11) 67; Villanova (30-7) 42; Gonzaga (28-5) 40; Washington State (23-11) 34; Arizona (22-10) 33; Florida Gulf Coast (33-4) 27; Iowa State (22-10) 26; Kansas (25-11) 22; Kansas State (19-17) 22; Marquette (21-11) 16; South Florida (27-7) 16; UNLV (31-3) 14; Nebraska (18-15) 12; Princeton (24-6) 11; North Carolina State (20-12) 10; Oregon (20-15) 9; Illinois (22-10) 8; Middle Tennessee (28-5) 6; Toledo (29-5) 6; South Dakota State (29-6) 5; Texas A&M (9-20) 4; Georgia (22-12) 3; Arkansas (24-13) 1.