LSU women's basketball ranked No.1 in preseason AP poll
BATON ROUGE – For the first time in program history, LSU will enter the season as the nation’s top-ranked team as the Tigers came in at No. 1 in Tuesday’s Preseason AP Poll.
Coming off a national championship, LSU was nearly a unanimous preseason No. 1 as all but one voter tabbed the Tigers as the top team going into the season. LSU returns a lot from last year’s team that won the program’s first ever NCAA Championship and it added the top two players out of the transfer portal as well as the nation’s No. 1 ranked recruiting class.
LSU has spent time as the No. 1 ranked team throughout the course of four seasons. Before finishing the year last season ranked No. 1, the last time the Tigers held the top spot was during the 2004-05 season.
The Tigers will host their first of two exhibition games Next Thursday, October 26 against East Texas Baptist. The other exhibition in the PMAC will be on November 1 against Loyola (New Orleans). The Tigers will begin their season on November 6 in Las Vegas against No. 20 Colorado before returning home to host Queens (N.C.) on November 9 when they will raise the National Championship banner in the PMAC.
RANKINGS
Released October 17
RANK TEAM POINTS
1 LSU (0-0) Southeastern 899 (35)
2 UConn (0-0) Big East 855 (1)
3 Iowa (0-0) Big Ten 780 (0)
4 UCLA (0-0 ) Pacific 12 757 (0)
5 Utah (0-0 ) Pacific 12 742 (0)
6 South Carolina (0-0) Southeastern 713 (0)
7 Ohio State (0-0 )Big Ten 711 (0)
8 Virginia Tech (0-0) Atlantic Coast 661 (0)
9 Indiana (0-0) Big Ten 625 (0)
10 Notre Dame (0-0) Atlantic Coast 546 (0)
11 Tennessee (0-0) Southeastern 540 (0)
12 Ole Miss (0-0) Southeastern 450 (0)
13 Texas (0-0) Big 12 428 (0)
14 Maryland (0-0) Big Ten 392 (0)
15 Stanford (0-0) Pacific 12 389 (0)
16 North Carolina (0-0 )Atlantic Coast 375 (0)
17 Louisville (0-0) Atlantic Coast 308 (0)
18 Florida State (0-0) Atlantic Coast 292 (0)
19 Baylor (0-0 )Big 12 268 (0)
20 Colorado (0-0) Pacific 12 257 (0)
21 USC(0-0)Pacific 12 209 (0)
22 Creighton (0-0) Big East 123 (0)
23 Illinois(0-0)Big Ten 82 (0)
24 Washington State(0-0)Pacific 12 61 (0)
25 Mississippi State (0-0) Southeastern 54 (0)
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES:
Kansas St 47, NC State 34, Kansas 26, Texas A&M 20, Iowa St. 18, Gonzaga 15, Duke 7, Nebraska 5, Miami 3, UNLV 2, Washington 2, Toledo 1, Oregon 1, Villanova 1, Arizona 1.