Some players who were considered but did not make the list include Iowa State's Audi Crooks, Vanderbilt's Mikayla Blakes and UConn's Serah Williams. Without further ado, here are the top 10 women's college basketball players of the 2025-26 preseason.

It’s a new era in college basketball. UConn champion Paige Bueckers graduated and USC guard JuJu Watkins will sit out the entire season to recover from a torn ACL, leaving a vacuum of star power at the top of the sport for the first time since 2020.

TCU is among a handful of Big 12 women's basketball teams with title expectations that could depend heavily on whether some high-profile transfers produce.

UCLA will play in four of our top 15 non-conference matchups. The other Final Four teams -- Texas, South Carolina and reigning national champion UConn -- also have some fun challenges ahead.

On Saturday, the NCAA released their Division I committee's initial top 16 seeds projection for the 2025 NCAA tournament.

Oklahoma was sixth, the Sooners’ highest preseason ranking since they were fourth in 2008. Duke, Tennessee, N.C. State and Maryland rounded out the top 10. Led by sensational sophomore Sarah Strong and super senior Azzi Fudd, Geno Auriemma’s UConn squad is ranked No. 1 in the preseason for the 13th time since 1995 and first since 2017.