Despite three returning starters and a top recruit, the St. John’s women’s basketball team has its work cut out for them, if the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll is correct.
Coming off their fourth straight 20-win season — and their seventh in the last eight — the Red Storm was picked to finish seventh in the conference on Wednesday, three points behind Seton Hall and six behind Georgetown.
Junior Akina Wellere was named to the Preseason All-Big East Team, averaging 11.3 points per game as the team’s leading returning scorer. Wellere led the team with 49 three-pointers in 107 attempts (.