AUBURN, Ala. – Coming off a 56-win season along with a Southeastern Conference Tournament title and a Women’s College World Series appearance, the Auburn softball team will begin 2016 with its highest preseason ranking ever at No. 4 according to the USA Today/NFCA National Division I Top 25 poll released this morning.
Auburn, which reached the Women’s College World Series semifinals last season before falling in a nine-inning thriller to eventual champion Florida, finished 2015 as the third-ranked team in the nation. Now it enters the new year just slightly lower in the same poll, but still well within the top-five, while also receiving one first-place vote.