{"id":309123,"date":"2025-10-16T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309123\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:10:11","slug":"the-2025-26-barttorvik-com-preseason-womens-basketball-rankings-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309123\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 BartTorvik.com Preseason Women\u2019s Basketball Rankings Are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cara Consuegra\u2019s team starts off her second season in charge at #52 in the Torvik rankings. They finished 2024-25 at #54 after starting the year off at #102, so I\u2019m counting this a win for the Golden Eagles. The component parts of Marquette\u2019s ranking are #71 on offense and #38 on defense. That\u2019s not a surprise, as I think everyone can agree that Consuegra\u2019s first season was very clearly dependent on Marquette defending as hard as humanly possible in order to make up for several shortcomings on the offensive end of the floor. MU finished last season at #100 on offense and #30 on defense, so at the very least, the Torvik algorithms like MU to get a decent chunk better on offense. That makes sense, as MU had to figure out how all their pieces fit together in the early parts of last season, and the addition of Jordan Meulemans\u2019 three-point shooting should provide the team a bit of a shot in the arm.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look how Marquette fits into the Big East, shall we?<\/p>\n

Connecticut \u2014<\/strong> #3
Villanova \u2014<\/strong> #41
Marquette \u2014<\/strong> #52
St. John\u2019s \u2014<\/strong> #59
Georgetown \u2014<\/strong> #63
Seton Hall \u2014<\/strong> #66
Creighton \u2014<\/strong> #85
Butler \u2014<\/strong> #111
DePaul \u2014<\/strong> #123
Providence \u2014<\/strong> #170
Xavier \u2014<\/strong> #200<\/p>\n

I think this approximates what I was thinking about the Big East this season when I picked my order of finish<\/a>. There is UConn up top, and there is Xavier down at the bottom, and there\u2019s a clear chunk of teams that could be in the NCAA tournament if things work out for them but they\u2019re all largely interchangeable if you\u2019re making a list.<\/p>\n

If we click through to Marquette\u2019s page, we can see that the computer projects Marquette to go 19-9 this season with a 13-7 record in the Big East. That is missing one game, as the computer can\u2019t project a winner of their second game in the Coconut Hoops event in Fort Myers until we know if MU is playing Indiana or Gonzaga. I can tell you that with Indiana at #56 and Gonzaga at #88, the Golden Eagles would be favored on a neutral court against both teams, so that\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n

Also in the good news department is the fact that Marquette is favored in 21 of their games that are listed. That means going game by game, the Golden Eagles project at going 21-7, or 22-7 if you figure in that Indiana\/Gonzaga game. That brings with it a mark of 15-5 in the Big East, and I will sign up for that right now, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s just counting off \u201cis Marquette favored to win?\u201d Along with that you get things like their away game against Seton Hall that is listed at 50% but is very clearly somewhere between 50.01% and 50.44% for Marquette as the Golden Eagles are projected to win, 67-66. Anything in between 45% and 55% is going to be projected as a one point coin flip, and MU has four games, all in Big East play, that fall into that category and there\u2019s two wins and two losses. If everything comes up sunshine for the Golden Eagles, that means that they could tilt that record to 17-3, but it\u2019s just as possible that it falls to 13-7. That\u2019s the original projection, aka the most likely outcome out of thousands of simulations of the season, so that\u2019s not the worst possible result there.<\/p>\n

Got questions? Got thoughts? Got complaints? Got jokes? That\u2019s what the comment section is for!<\/p>\n

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