IUP women’s basketball will start the season ranked number four in the nation, according to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association preseason coaches poll.
IUP advanced all the way to the national championship game last season, where they fell to Grand Valley State. Three starters return from that team…Teresa Maggio, Marin Miller, and Belle Bosch. Coach Craig Carey will welcome six transfers and two freshmen this season.
Defending champ Grand Valley State is ranked number one, followed by Colorado Mesa, Alabama-Huntsville, IUP, Cal Poly Pomona, Texas Woman’s, Minnesota State Mankato, Winston-Salem State. Lenoir-Rhyne, and Holy Family in the Top Ten.
Gannon is the only other ranked PSAC school, at number twelve.
IUP will open the season with the Education Day game at the KCAC, November 9th against Pitt-Greensburg.
