{"id":224558,"date":"2025-10-14T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224558\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:58:10","slug":"womens-hoops-begins-at-no-9-in-ap-poll-picked-second-in-acc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224558\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s hoops begins at No. 9 in AP Poll; picked second in ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The women\u2019s college basketball <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preseason AP top 25<\/a> is here, and NC State checks in at No. 9, behind only Duke (No. 7) among ACC teams. Duke also tops the <a href=\"https:\/\/theacc.com\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/womens-basketball-duke-picked-as-conference-favorite-nds-hidalgo-named-preseason-player-of-the-year.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preseason ACC media poll<\/a> with 40 first-place votes, while NC State is second, with 25 first-place votes (out of 70).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both Zoe Brooks and Khamil Pierre earned earned a spot on the 10-member preseason All-ACC team. Brooks was second in points among all players, making her the runner-up for preseason Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NC State\u2019s stacked non-conference schedule includes a pair of top-10 teams (No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 8 Tennessee), as well games against No. 17 TCU and No. 18 USC\u2014the Trojans obviously would be a fair bit higher if Juju Watkins were healthy. There\u2019s also an exhibition game against No. 10 Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As usual, Wes Moore is not shy about playing the very best teams in the country even though the ACC itself is quite good. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs have given us a lot of appointment television in November and December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women\u2019s college basketball preseason AP top 25 is here, and NC State checks in at No. 9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,62866,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-224558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-nc-state-womens-hoops","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}