PROVO, Utah – The Big 12 Conference released its 2025-26 Women’s Basketball Preseason Media Poll on Wednesday, with BYU ranked 10th among the league’s 16 teams.
Media members from local, regional and national markets who cover the Big 12 selected BYU 10th in the poll, placing the Cougars ahead of Arizona State, Cincinnati, Texas Tech, Arizona, UCF and Houston. TCU, ranked No. 17 in the preseason AP Top 25, was picked to win the league, followed by No. 14 Iowa State in second and No. 16 Baylor in third.
Big 12 Women's Basketball Preseason Media Poll
- No. 17 TCU
- No. 14 Iowa State
- No. 16 Baylor
- No. 22 Oklahoma State
- West Virginia
- Kansas State
- Kansas
- Utah
- Colorado
- BYU
- Arizona State
- Cincinnati
- Texas Tech
- Arizona
- UCF
- Houston
Entering its third season as a member of the Big 12, BYU will look to take the next step under first-year head coach Lee Cummard.
“We haven’t done anything in the league in the first two years," Cummard said at Big 12 Media Day. "We’ve been in a lot of close games, we’ve upset a few ranked opponents, but we’ve never won a game in the conference tournament. We’ve never finished in the top half of the league. So there are two [goals] right there that we want to strive for daily. We want to be playing late into the conference tournament and go to the NCAA Tournament as a member of the Big 12 Conference.”
BYU will open the season on Nov. 5 as the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers visit the Marriott Center for the first meeting between the two teams in women's basketball. Cummard and the Cougars will play 12 non-conference games before beginning conference play on Dec. 20 in Orlando against UCF.