IRVING, Texas – Charlotte women's basketball was picked to finish fourth in the preseason Conference USA poll following a vote of the league's head coaches, the conference office announced Friday. It marks the second-straight year in which the 49ers were tabbed fourth in the preseason.
Charlotte enters 2017-18 coming off a 21-10 campaign, including a 12-6 mark in the league standings. The Niners tied for fourth at the end of the season but were the No. 5 seed in the conference tournament due to tiebreakers.
The 49ers have finished among the conference's top-four teams in each of the last two years, a spot that earned them a double-bye into the tournament's quarterfinals in 2016.