Girls’s Basketball ranked No. 4 in Related Press preseason ballot

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas ladies’s basketball has been picked No. 4 within the AP preseason high 25 ballot introduced on Tuesday.  

The AP ballot enters its 50^th 12 months this season and the Longhorns have the third most appearances amongst ladies’s basketball packages with 642. The Longhorns have been ranked No. 1, 49 instances for the reason that ballot started in 1976. 

Texas began the season ranked No. 4 within the preseason AP ballot within the 2024-25 season and remained within the top-10 for the whole lot of the season and within the top-five in 17 of 21 weeks. The Longhorns reached the No. 1 spot for 2 weeks, which was the primary time in 21 years the Longhorns had been ranked No. 1 within the AP ballot. 

The Longhorns are coming off a season during which they gained 35 recreation to set a program document for wins within the NCAA Era. The group superior to the Final Four for the primary time in 22 years and earned a SEC common season championship of their first season within the convention. Texas went 15-1 within the SEC final season and has posted a document of 68-9 total of their final two seasons. 

Madison Booker was named the SEC Player of the Year in 2025 and on Monday was chosen the preseason SEC Player of the Year for the 2025-26 season by the media. Booker is a two-time First Team All-American coming into her junior season at Texas. Rori Harmon is a three-time All-America honorable point out choice and returns for her last season. Harmon ranks second all-time in profession assists at Texas and enters the season 46 assists from breaking that document. Jordan Lee, a 2025 choice to the SEC All-Freshman group returns for the Longhorns.