GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Virginia Tech women's basketball team was selected to finish 12th, according to separate polls of the league’s Blue Ribbon Panel and its 15 head coaches as announced Wednesday by the Atlantic Coast Conference office.
Three-time defending champion Notre Dame is once again the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball preseason favorite. This marks the fourth consecutive season that the Fighting Irish have been rated the ACC preseason favorite since joining the conference prior to the 2013-14 season.
Notre Dame received 44 first-place votes from Blue Ribbon panel members to emerge as the clear-cut favorite.