WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg women's basketball team received the No. 8 ranking in the d3hoops.com Top 25 preseason poll.

This is the highest ranking for the program in the preseason poll.
 

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Tufts (8)	30-3	600	2
2	Christopher Newport (6)	29-3	591	4
3	Amherst (10)	33-0	576	1
4	St. Thomas	31-1	508	3
5	Thomas More (1)	28-1	501	11
6	Whitman	26-5	488	7
7	Ohio Northern	30-1	454	5
8	Wartburg	25-3	421	16
9	Trine	25-3	363	17
10	Washington U.	26-3	352	6
11	UW-Oshkosh	26-4	290	9
12	Trinity (Texas)	28-2	285	8
13	Hope	24-5	282	10
14	Marymount	24-6	261	20
15	DePauw	27-3	238	15
16	Gustavus Adolphus	25-3	219	22
17	Puget Sound	26-3	199	12
18	Mass-Dartmouth	25-6	180	21
19	Scranton	26-4	152	13
20	UW-Whitewater	22-6	141	--
21	Rochester	18-9	129	--
22	Chicago	19-8	120	23
23	Montclair State	26-3	82	19
24	Mary Washington	24-5	79	18
25	Illinois Wesleyan	18-10	76	--