Women's preseason Top 25: USF receiving votes

Just caught up with the preseason rankings for women's basketball, and this just in: the USF women's basketball team is receiving four — count them — four votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll which was released Tuesday evening.

Other Big East teams in the top 25:

No. 8 Connecticut
No. 11 Rutgers
No. 19 DePaul

While Louisville (33), St. John's (20) and Pittsburgh (16) are receiving votes as well.

It seems not just Big East men's basketball will make splashes this season, but there are a few other teams of note to USF in top 25.

USC, the team USF lost to in its first ever NCAA Tournament game, is ranked 22nd.
Michigan St., which the Bulls face on Dec. 3, is ranked 17th.
LSU, which the Bulls face Jan. 3 and which lost Simone Augustus to the WNBA, is ranked 10th.
Vanderbilt, which USF faces Dec. 7, is ranked 15th.

There are no women's basketball RPI out just yet, but looks like another tough non-conference set up by coach Jose Fernandez and a equally tough conference schedule. If this season proves just as successful as last season (18-22), it could, and should, mean another trip to the NCAA tourney.

— Mike Camunas