Dawn Staley and the South Carolina women’s basketball team will enter this season’s NCAA title defense with a No. 1 ranking in the preseason AP Top 25 Basketball Poll.

Here are the full results of the survey, released Tuesday:

1. South Carolina
2. UConn
3. USC
4. Texas
5. UCLA
6. Notre Dame
7. LSU
8. Iowa State
9. State of North Carolina
10. Oklahoma
11. duke
12. Baylor
13. Kansas State
14. Ohio State
15. North Carolina
16. West Virginia
17. Louisville
18. Maryland
19. State of Florida
20. Ole Miss
21. Creighton
22. Kentucky
23. Nebraska
24. Alabama
25. Indiana

Other schools that received multiple votes for a spot on the top 25 list were said to include Iowa, TCU, Utah, Illinois, Stanford, Michigan State, Gonzaga, Vanderbilt, South Dakota State, Miami, Tennessee, Fairfield, Middle Tennessee and Georgia Tech AP.

Syracuse and Princeton received one vote each.

According to Doug Feinberg of the Associated Press, this is the first time in 25 years that Stanford did not finish in the top 25 in the preseason poll. The Cardinal’s departure follows the resignation of longtime head coach Tara VanDerveer in April.

Also for the first time in 25 years, No. 24 Alabama qualified for a top-25 preseason ranking after back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids, Feinberg noted.

With the SEC’s recent expansion to include No. 4 Texas and No. 10 Oklahoma, the conference has the most representation in the poll with seven top-25 programs, followed by six ACC teams and six Big Ten teams.

South Carolina received the vast majority of the 30 first-place votes, with 27. The remainder was split between UConn (two first-place votes) and USC (one first-place vote).

Feinberg noted that the Gamecocks have been ranked No. 1 in four of the last five preseason polls. They missed out last season but still won the national championship.

According to Feinberg, UConn finished in second place, marking its 30th consecutive ranking in the program’s top 10 preseason poll.

Three top 25 programs saw significant moves of more than 10 spots in the survey since the end of last season, including newly promoted Np. 8 Iowa State and Oklahoma. Both programs return most of their leading scorers from last season, and Iowa State has now secured top-ten AP rankings in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball.

Indiana, meanwhile, has fallen 13 spots to No. 25 since losing star forward Mackenzie Holmes in the 2024 WNBA Draft.

The NCAA women’s basketball season begins November 4th.