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.
SB doesn't have a cupcake schedule this year, 8 teams ranked on this list, as opposed to 10 for Maryland. Sb is playing its toughest schedule in program history. Could probably be a little tougher, but definitely improved from last few seasons.
Ranking are just that, meant for conjecture and discussion. Means little else otherwise. Injuries, Freshman development etc, are unknown factors that cannot be factored into pre-season rankings.
