The 2023 preseason poll is out for women’s soccer in the Big East and well, it appears that the Big East coaches are not big fans of Marquette this season.
The Golden Eagles have landed in 8th place in the preseason poll. They earned 34 points in the polling of the league’s coaches where they are not allowed to vote for their own teams. Providence is the team in seventh place after earning 47 points, while Villanova is the team in 9th place with 33 points, just one behind Marquette. So yes, that means the coaches as a group don’t see much difference between MU and the Wildcats, and not much held Marquette off from being in ninth place out of 11 squads.