LSU Is No. 9 In The Associated Press Preseason Top 25 Poll

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BILL MARTIN, SID (10/30/09 - 3:30 p.m.)
For the 11th time in program history, the LSU women’s basketball team heads into a new season ranked in The Associated Press preseason top 10 as the Lady Tigers earned a No. 9 national ranking in the poll that was released on Friday.

LSU is the second highest ranked Southeastern Conference team in the AP Top 25. Tennessee is ranked No. 8, Georgia comes in at No. 21 and Vanderbilt is No. 22. Connecticut, the defending national champion, is the unanimous preseason No. 1 after receiving all 40 first-place votes. Stanford, Ohio State, Notre Dame and North Carolina round out the top five.

It marks the ninth straight season LSU has made an appearance in the preseason edition of the AP Top 25. The No. 9 ranking is the 100th top 10 AP poll appearance for LSU this decade, which is sixth most among all teams in the nation.

Read the complete press release:
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=204824172

Posted by Bill Martin