IL Women's NCAA preseason:
1. Maryland
2. Stony Brook
3. North Carolina
4. Boston College
5. Florida
6. Penn State
7. Navy
8. USC
9. Syracuse
10. Northwestern
11. Princeton
12. Penn
13. Virginia
14. Cornell
15. UMass
16. Notre Dame
17. James Madison
18. Albany
19. Colorado
20. Elon
21. Duke
22. Stanford
23. Loyola
24. Towson
25. John Hopkins
My initial thoughts ... BC too high. They were an ok team until Kenzie Kent joined midseason. She is not playing this year. BC is no better than 10 without her. SB is not the #2 team in the country, particularly w the 3-second rule back to a major foul. Will be hard to know with their cream puff schedule, but they r more like top 8. Navy caught lightening in a bottle last year. Great for them. Not a top ten team.
The rules are going to hurt stony brook but they are playing a bunch of top 25 teams USC Stanford, NW, Towson, Hopkins Cornell Penn State Albany. I think we will all continue to see that after the top handful of teams the sports talent level falls off a cliff. If you had to wager would you take Maryland and UNC against the rest of the field? I would
