The talk of UConn "ruining women's basketball" is dead ... at least according to ESPN's way-too-early top 25 for the 2016-17 season. The worldwide leader has the Huskies ranked No. 4 heading into the summer, with Notre Dame holding down the top spot.
Another team ESPN thinks might be in line to take the throne away from Storrs? Louisville, which checks in just behind the Fighting Irish at No. 2.
2. Louisville
Jeff Waltz brings everyone back from a team that lost just one game in the ACC in 2016 and adds one of the nation's best high school post players in Ciera Johnson from Duncanville, Texas.