The Ole Miss women’s basketball team and head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin are included in the preseason AP Top 25 for the fourth year in a row.
The latest edition of the poll dropped Tuesday and had the Rebels at No. 19. It’s a trend that has become familiar in Oxford and follows preseason AP rankings of No. 12 (2025), No. 20 (2024), and No. 12 (2023).
McPhee-McCuin, who is entering her ninth season leading the Rebels, has a 149-107 overall record and has guided the program to five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2026, Ole Miss was one win away from a second consecutive Sweet 16 appearance, but narrowly fell to Minnesota in the Round of 32.
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Joining Ole Miss from the SEC in the preseason poll are South Carolina (No. 1), Texas (No. 6), Vanderbilt (No. 8), LSU (No. 9), Kentucky (No. 14), and Oklahoma (No. 22).
The Big Ten has nine teams in the AP Top 25, the most ever for one conference in the preseason poll, while the ACC has five and the Big 12 three. The Big East has one.
Here’s the full preseason AP Top 25:
- South Carolina
- UConn
- USC
- Duke
- Michigan
- Texas
- Louisville
- Vanderbilt
- LSU
- Iowa
- UCLA
- North Carolina
- Notre Dame
- Kentucky
- TCU
- Washington
- Minnesota
- Ohio State
- Ole Miss
- Maryland
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Illinois
- West Virginia
- NC State
The Associated Press contributed to this report.