Women's soccer preseason poll

[dbmill]

The NSCAA has released its preseason women's college soccer poll, and the UConn women's soccer team came in at No. 15.

DI Women's College Soccer Rankings - NSCAA Coaches | NCAA.com

RANK SCHOOL POINTS RECORD PREVIOUS
1 Florida State (18) 751 18-3-4 3
2 Penn State (10) 731 22-3-2 1
3 Duke (2) 701 14-6-5 2
4 Virginia 671 19-1-3 5
5 Stanford 640 19-2-2 6
6 West Virginia 662 19-3-1 7
7 Florida 557 19-4-1 8
8 Texas A&M 545 17-7-2 9
9 North Carolina 505 15-5-1 14
10 Rutgers 471 18-4-4 4
11 Southern California 444 14-6-2 11
12 Auburn 404 16-6-1 12
13 Notre Dame 384 14-5-1 15
14 Clemson 360 15-42 13
15 Connecticut 325 19-4-0 10
16 BYU 309 16-3-2 17
17 Virginia Tech 287 15-4-2 18
18 California 221 13-6-3 24
19 Texas Tech 198 14-4-5 21
20 Arizona 187 14-6-2 19
21 Santa Clara 173 14-6-2 20
22 Mississippi 159 14-5-4 16
23 Ohio State 134 13-6-4 22
24 South Carolina 81 37960 NR
25 Loyola Marymount 58 15-6-1 23

Also receiving votes: South Alabama (47), UCLA (45), Minnesota (45), Northwestern (18), Washington State (14), South Florida (13), Pepperdine (12), LSU (10), Michigan (7), Florida Gulf Coast (5), Wisconsin (4), Central Florida (4), Boston College (3), North Carolina-Wilmington (2), Hofstra (2), Cal State Fullerton (2), Princeton (1), Washington (1)

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Glad to see UConn back where they belong Of the top 25, UConn does get #10 Rutgers home and will be at #1 Florida St. They also get ARV BC team at home. They will need to do well with those games as the only AAC team in this list are USF and UCF, both in the ARV category.

 

[dbmill]

Glad to see UConn back where they belong Of the top 25, UConn does get #10 Rutgers home and will be at #1 Florida St. They also get ARV BC team at home. They will need to do well with those games as the only AAC team in this list are USF and UCF, both in the ARV category.

The game at BC is an exhibition game, so it doesn't count for the regular season.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

The game at BC is an exhibition game, so it doesn't count for the regular season.

No UConn game against BC is an exhibition. It's like in soccer calling a USMT v. Mexico game a friendly.

 

[dbmill]

Glad to see UConn back where they belong Of the top 25, UConn does get #10 Rutgers home and will be at #1 Florida St. They also get ARV BC team at home. They will need to do well with those games as the only AAC team in this list are USF and UCF, both in the ARV category.

Certainly good to see UConn back in the top 25. With this schedule, to make noise on a national level they need to take care of Rutgers at home. However, Rutgers handily beat the Huskies twice last season, the second time knocking UConn out of the NCAA tournament, so I don't expect that to be easy.

UConn returns plenty of offensive firepower in Rachel Hill, Stephanie Ribeiro, and Kim Urbanek, and also return the excellent Emily Armstrong in goal, along with several other key defenders. However, the the Huskies lost several solid players to graduation, so depth could be an issue unless several of the newcomers are able to contribute right away. Counted among the newcomers is Annika Schmidt, a redshirt freshman coming off injuries who was highly regarded coming out of high school, I'm quite curious to see if she is able to get a significant amount of playing time this fall.