The Colorado College women's basketball team has been picked second in the 2022-23 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll, based on balloting from the league's nine head coaches.

The Tigers garnered 55 points and one first place vote, just behind league favorite Trinity University, which received 64 points and the other eight first-place votes. Texas Lutheran was picked third with 50 votes.
 
The Tigers advanced to its second-straight SCAC Tournament Championship game last season, and did not have a senior on the '21-22 roster. CC will be led a pair of returning first-team all-SCAC performers from a year ago in senior Anna Fanelli and junior Audrey Bayston. Fanelli set new SCAC single season records last year after averaging 8.9 assists per game for a total of 239 during her junior campaign, while Bayston led the Tigers averaging 13.9 points per game. The duo helped lift CC to a program-record 11 SCAC wins last season and tied for the most wins in the SCAC era with 16, equaling the 2008-09 team. 

The Tigers open their 2022-23 season on Nov. 11-2, with the CC Classic at Reid Arena. The SCAC Tournament will be held at the end of February in San Antonio, Texas, hosted by Trinity, and beginning the 24th.
 
 

2022-23 SCAC Women's Basketball Preseason Coaches' Poll (first-place votes in parentheses, followed by total points)
1.	Trinity University (8)	64
2.	Colorado College (1)	55
3.	Texas Lutheran University	50
4.	Austin College	40
	Schreiner University	40
6.	Southwestern University	27
7.	University of Dallas	21
8.	University of St. Thomas	19
9.	Centenary College	8