AP preseason Top 25 poll reaction: What to know about every team

The 2025-26 preseason women's assemblage hoops AP Top 25 canvass results are out!

The reigning champion UConn Huskies apical the list, with runner-up South Carolina Gamecocks and the remainder of past season's Final Four -- the UCLA Bruins and Texas Longhorns -- rounding retired the apical four.

Find the afloat results of the rankings -- implicit with projected starting lineups and the biggest early-season games to ticker for each squad -- below. The play begins Nov. 3.

All times Eastern.

1. UConn Huskies

2024-25 record: 37-3 (won 2025 nationalist championship)

Season opener: Nov. 4 vs. Louisville (in Germany), 5:30 p.m., ESPN

Biggest early-season game: Nov. 21 vs. Michigan, 8 p.m., FOX

Projected starting lineup:
Sarah Strong (16.4 PPG)
Azzi Fudd (13.6 PPG)
Ashlynn Shade (7.7 PPG)
Serah Williams (19.2 PPG astatine Wisconsin)
Kayleigh Heckel (6.1 PPG astatine USC)

2. South Carolina Gamecocks

2024-25 record: 35-4 (lost to 2-seed UConn successful nationalist title game)

Season opener: Nov. 3 vs. Grand Canyon, 7 p.m., SEC Network+

Biggest early-season game: Nov. 26 vs. Duke (in Las Vegas), 4:30p.m., truTV

Projected starting lineup:
Raven Johnson (4.9 PPG)
Tessa Johnson (8.4 PPG)
Joyce Edwards (12.7 PPG)
Ta'Niya Latson (25.2 PPG astatine Florida State)
Madina Okot (11.3 PPG astatine Mississippi State)

3. UCLA Bruins

2024-25 record: 34-3 (l...