ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Missouri Valley Conference announced its preseason women's basketball poll Tuesday morning, with the UNI Panthers landing at the No. 2 spot.
The Panthers second place ranking marks the ninth year that UNI has been voted in the top-half of the standings in the MVC preseason poll under the direction of head coach Tanya Warren. Warren is in her 10th year as head coach of the Panthers, earning her third MVC Coach of the Year title in 2016.
Drake earned 34 first-place votes to top the preseason poll this year with UNI and Missouri State also receiving first place votes to finish second and third.