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Women’s Basketball Picked Sixth In Preseason Poll

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- For the second consecutive year, Bradley Women's Basketball was picked to finish sixth in the Missouri Valley Conference pre-season poll according to a vote of the league's coaches, sports information directors and media announced Thursday.

The Braves are coming off back-to-back seventh-place league finishes in each of third-year head coach Andrea Gorski's first two seasons on the Bradley bench. BU returns its top three scorers from the previous season and seven of its top nine scorers from last year's team which posted Bradley's highest overall win total (13) since the 2012-13 campaign (14).