One year after having no UConn women's basketball players named the five-member Associated Press preseason team, the Huskies led the way with the trio of Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson and Gabby Williams joining South Carolina's A'ja Wilson and Kelsey Mitchell of Ohio State on the squad.
The voting was hardly a surprise considering that all five players were among 10 selected to the 2016-17 Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-American team announced during the Final Four. The only other players with remaining eligibility on that squad were Baylor's Kalani Brown and Brianna Turner of Notre Dame, who will be sidelined this season as she continues to recover from the knee injury she suffered in the 2017 NCAA tournament.