Alabama women’s basketball is already receiving recognition to start the 2024-25 season. For the first time in 25 years, the Crimson Tide is ranked in the AP top 25 preseason poll. Alabama owns the No. 24 spot.

New conference additions Texas and Oklahoma give the SEC seven teams in the Top 25. Joining them are South Carolina, LSU, No. 20 Ole Miss, No. 22 Kentucky and Alabama. The ACC and Big Ten each have six ranked teams while the Big 12 has four. UConn and Creighton give the Big East two teams.

The Alabama Crimson Tide women’s basketball program has been ranked in the preseason AP Poll, coming in as the nation’s No. 24 overall team to begin the year. This is a first for Alabama in recent memory, as the Crimson Tide have not been ranked in the preseason AP Poll since the 1998-99 season.

Gonzaga received five first-place votes and 92 points in the West Coast Conference women's preseason poll, edging newcomer Washington State by one point.

Ohio State women's basketball is ranked No. 14 in the Associated Press preseason poll. The ranking is seven spots behind where the Buckeyes started the 2023-24 season at No. 7, and makes Ohio State the third-highest ranked team in the Big Ten.

The Gonzaga women's basketball team was narrowly picked to win the 2024-25 West Coast Conference championship, the conference announced Wednesday . Gonzaga received five first-place votes and 92 points in the preseason poll,

Saint Mary’s, who won both the regular season and WCC Basketball Championship last season, is second in the poll with 86 points and one first-place vote. Gonzaga also led the way with four of the 11 honorees on the All-WCC Preseason Team.

Stanford Cardinal women's basketball is right around the corner, and predictions are already being made about where they'll finish in the ACC.