ST. LOUIS, Mo. – With the basketball season right around the corner, the Missouri Valley Conference announced its preseason poll Tuesday morning, with the Northern Iowa Panthers landing at the No. 3 spot.
The Panthers' third-place ranking marks the 10th year that UNI has been voted in the top-half of the MVC preseason standings under 11-year head coach Tanya Warren.
Drake is picked to repeat with 31 first-place votes, while Missouri State is slotted at No. 2 with seven first-place votes. The Panthers nabbed two first-place votes for No.