The Ball State soccer team was picked to finish second in the Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Preseason Poll, the conference office announced Tuesday.
In a vote of the league's head coaches, the Cardinals got one first place vote and 101 points total to finish behind only Western Michigan, who received eight first place votes and 116 points.
Ohio (90 points), Kent State (88) and Buffalo (86) rounded out the Top 5 in the regular season conference champion tally. In a poll for which team would win the MAC Tournament, Western Michigan got six votes while Ball State took two.