Kentucky WBB is No. 18 in On3's Women's Basketball Preseason Top 25

Kentucky had a really, really good season with Kenny Brooks at the helm last year. He led the program to unprecedented levels of success in his first year in Lexington, and the expectation is that the program will only continue to ascend under his leadership.

The Cats recently came in at No. 18 in On3’s Women’s Basketball Preseason Top 25 rankings. And for all of the Louisville haters out there, that’s one spot above the Cards.

We’re less than six months away from the start of the 2025-26 womens college basketball season.

After (most of) the portal madness, here’s my current preseason Top 25 for @On3sports.

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— Talia Goodman (@TaliaGoodmanWBB) May 19, 2025

Here is the full Top 25:

1. South Carolina
2. UConn
3. Texas
4. UCLA
5. LSU
6. Duke
7. Tennessee
8. Oklahoma
9. North Carolina
10. Michigan
11. NC State
12. Michigan State
13. Iowa State
14. Vanderbilt
15. Washington
16. Iowa
17. Minnesota
18. Kentucky
19. Louisville
20. TCU
21. Ohio State
22. Ole Miss
23. Kansas State
24. Maryland
25. Notre Dame

There are five SEC teams in the top eight alone, with eight total SEC teams being listed in the rankings. By those metrics, Kentucky would be projected to finish seventh in the SEC — one spot higher than what folks thought heading into last season.

After finishing fourth in the conference last year, seventh feels a bit low, but hey, being underestimated sure worked for them last year.

Kentucky returns its main core of Teonni Key, Clara Strack and Amelia Hassett — the triplets — also getting Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová back from injury. Plus, Brooks reeled in all-conference players in Tonie Morgan, Josie Gilvin and Asia Boone to pair with freshmen Kaelyn Carroll and Elsa Vadfors.

Losing Georgia Amoore and Dazia Lawrence sucks (a lot), but Kentucky brought in a ton of talent that’ll have them up there with some of the best teams in the country.

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