BALTIMORE, MD – Following a trip to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1998 a season ago, the Johns Hopkins women's basketball team came in at No. 6 in the D3Hoops.com Preseason poll, as released earlier today. The Blue Jays' preseason ranking is the best in program history and is the program's highest ranking since they were second in December of 1999.
 
Hopkins returns several contributors from a 2023-24 roster that made a surprise trip to the Round of 16 in head coach Rodney Rogan's first season. Included in that bunch are all five starters — all of which earned All-Centennial Conference recognition a season ago — headlined by All-Region V Second Team selection Greta Miller. In all the Blue Jays bring back over 90% of their scoring and 80% of their minutes from last year's group that also ranked 10^th in rebounds per game, 11^th in assist to turnover ratio and 20^th in field goal percentage defense in Division III.

Reigning national champions NYU were picked as the preseason favorite after receiving 24 of 25 first-place votes, with Wartburg and Scranton rounding out the top three. The Centennial Conference has two teams in the preseason top 25, with Gettysburg coming in at No. 15 following a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2024.
 
Johns Hopkins opens their season Saturday, Nov. 9 with a matchup against New Jersey City before traveling to North Carolina to take on Christopher Newport — which is ranked ninth in the poll — in a rematch of last year's Round of 32 matchup.