Women’s Basketball: Media picks women to finish seventh in the ACC

Don’t get too excited just yet, but ACC head coaches and a blue-ribbon panel picked the UVA women’s basketball team to finish seventh in the conference in the 2025-2026 season.

Which is actually not bad in a league with several Final Four contenders.

And hey, the ACC got eight bids last year.

You know what that means.

In other news: Kymora Johnson, the rising junior point guard, made the Preseason All-ACC team, which has 10 members, but Johnson got the third-most votes, so she’s a true first-teamer.

This is all good stuff.

Preseason All-ACC

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Player of the Year

• Hannah Hidalgo, Jr., G, Notre Dame

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Preseason All-ACC Team

First-place votes – 70 voters

• Hannah Hidalgo, Jr., G, Notre Dame 833 (56 first-place votes)
• Zoe Brooks, Jr., G, NC State 606 (3)
• Kymora Johnson, Jr., G, Virginia 577 (1)
• Toby Fournier, So., F, Duke 535 (4)
• Ashlon Jackson, Sr., G, Duke 333 (1)
• Tajianna Roberts, So., G, Louisville 326 (3)
• Khamil Pierre, Sr., F, NC State 285
• Reniya Kelly, Sr., G, North Carolina 276
• Nunu Agara, Jr., F, Stanford 275
• Laura Ziegler, Sr., F, Louisville 78

 Note: Sa’Myah Smith (Virginia), Carleigh Wenzel (Virginia Tech) each received one first-place vote.

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Preseason All-Freshman Team

• Emilee Skinner, G, Duke 415
• Hailee Swain, G, Stanford 324
• Nyla Brooks, G, North Carolina 310
• Lara Somfai, F, Stanford 185
• Aliyahna “Puff” Morris, G, California 114
• Leah Macy, F, Notre Dame 79

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Predicted Order of Finish

First-place votes – 70 voters

1. Duke (40), 1525
2. NC State (25), 1487
3. North Carolina (1), 1374
4. Louisville (2), 1276
5. Notre Dame (2), 1255
6. Stanford, 1041
7. Virginia, 987
8. Miami, 889
9. Florida State, 857
10. Virginia Tech, 813
11. Clemson, 738
12. California, 669
13. Syracuse, 540
14. SMU, 483
15. Georgia Tech, 447
16. Pitt, 299
17. Boston College, 211
18. Wake Forest, 157