LAS VEGAS – The Mountain West announced the 2025-26 women’s basketball preseason poll today as voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches and select media. The UNLV Lady Rebels were selected to win the regular-season Conference title for the third consecutive year.
The Scarlet and Gray have won the last four regular-season titles and three of the last four Conference championships. Head coach Lindy La Rocque looks to extend her run of regular-season and Conference championship titles in her sixth year at the helm for UNLV.
The Lady Rebels collected 19 of the 27 first-place votes and totaled 281 points in the preseason poll. UNLV returns one starter and four other letterwinners from last year’s team that won the program’s fourth regular-season title.
With three first-place votes, San Diego State was selected to finish second, followed by Colorado State in third and Boise State in fourth each with one first-place vote. New Mexico is slotted to finish fifth with two first-place votes, followed by Wyoming in sixth to fill out the top half of the poll.
Mountain West newcomer Grand Canyon was selected to finish seventh and earned the final first-place vote, followed by Air Force, Fresno State, Nevada, Utah State and San José State, respectively.
2025-26 MW Predicted Order of Finish
| Place | Team (First-Place Votes) | Points |
| 1. | UNLV (19) | 281 |
| 2. | San Diego State (3) | 240 |
| 3. | Colorado State (1) | 236 |
| 4. | Boise State (1) | 210 |
| 5. | New Mexico (2) | 207 |
| 6. | Wyoming | 194 |
| 7. | Grand Canyon (1) | 177 |
| 8. | Air Force | 132 |
| 9 | Fresno State | 95 |
| 10. | Nevada | 92 |
| 11. | Utah State | 54 |
| 12. | San José State | 44 |
