Kansas State women’s basketball will enter its 2016–17 season with high expectations, as the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll has ranked the team with a fifth place finish in an announcement by the league office on Wednesday. This is the highest preseason ranking for the program since the 2004–05 season when the Wildcats were slotted in third.
K-State head coach Jeff Mittie returns nine letterwinners from the 2015-16 squad that recorded a 19-13 overall record and reached the second round of the 2016 NCAA tournament.
K-State was slotted for a seventh- place finish in the 2015–16 poll and exceeded the expectation by one place, finishing sixth with an 8-10 league mark.
K-State women picked to f inish 5th in Big 12 poll
