Women's college basketball Preseason Top 25 for 2025-26

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Charlie CremeOct 7, 2025, 08:00 AM ET
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When ESPN past projected the women's assemblage hoops apical 25 for the 2025-26 season, the South Carolina Gamecocks were atop the rankings. Ta'Niya Latson, the nation's starring scorer, had announced her transportation to Columbia, wherever Chloe Kitts, Raven Johnson, Joyce Edwards and Tessa Johnson were acceptable to return.

Then the transportation portal struck a fewer much times. Most notably, Serah Williams, 1 of the Big Ten's champion players astatine Wisconsin, enrolled astatine UConn, giving the reigning nationalist champion Huskies their last portion to determination past the Gamecocks arsenic this season's aboriginal favourite successful the rubric race.

The portal took a small and gave a small to UCLA and Texas, and erstwhile the particulate cleared, past season's Final Four participants emerged arsenic front-runners to beryllium among the past teams lasting successful Phoenix, which hosts the nationalist semifinals and title crippled connected April 3 and 5.

Winning and losing successful the transportation portal has go much straight reflective of wins and losses connected the court. And it's wherefore teams specified arsenic Maryland, NC State and TCU person moved up successful our apical 25, and wherefore Vanderbilt and Baylor moved down.

So arsenic we unveil ESPN's preseason Top 25 rankings, we look astatine the transportation who volition marque the astir interaction for each team.

1. UConn Huskies

Serah Williams (Wisconsin): From the infinitesimal Williams entered the transportation portal she seemed a bully acceptable for the defending champion Huskies. Pairing with Sarah Strong could springiness UConn the astir productive frontcourt duo successful the country. Third successful the Big Ten successful scoring (19.2 PPG) and rebounding (9.8 (RPG) past season, Williams enactment up large numbers passim her three-year vocation successful Madison, but she ne'er played connected a winning team. That changes with the determination to Storrs.