The North Carolina women's basketball team checks in at No. 22 in the Associated Press preseason poll released on Tuesday.
This joins a handful of other preseason polls that have the Tar Heels ranked among the best in the nation. Both the USA TODAY Sports Coaches’ Poll and Athlon Sports has Carolina 20th.
UNC is ranked in the AP preseason poll for the 13th time in the last 14 seasons with 2012-13 being the only time since 2001-02 that the team did not start inside the Top 25.
The AP poll includes six teams on this year's schedule: No.