2025-2026 CCC Women's Basketball Preseason Poll

EUGENE, Ore. –The Bushnell women's basketball team has been predicted to take seventh in the Cascade Collegiate Conference Preseason Coaches Poll released Wednesday.   
 
Bushnell returns two starters and six total players from their 2024-2025 squad which went 11-18 and took sixth-place in the CCC with a 10-12 conference record.
 
Lewis-Clark State College has been selected as the preseason favorite, collecting four first-place votes and 110 total points to earn the top spot. LC State finished as the CCC Tournament runner-up last season and earned a berth to the NAIA National Championship.
 
Oregon Tech followed closely in second with three first-place votes and 102 points. Southern Oregon University, the defending CCC regular-season and tournament champion, earned two first-place votes and 101 points to rank third. The Raiders advanced to the quarterfinals of the National Championship last year.
 
College of Idaho claimed fourth place with two first-place votes and 100 points, while Eastern Oregon University rounded out the top five with 76 points.
 
Corban University earned 66 points to place sixth, followed by the Beacons (57 points), Northwest University (38 points), and The Evergreen State College (35 points). Warner Pacific University (27 points) and Walla Walla University (13 points) closed out the preseason rankings.
 
The Beacons will host their alumni game on October 19th at 2:00 pm, before starting the season with a an NCAA Division I exhibition game at Montana State University on October 30. The first counting game comes on November 1 when the Beacons face the University of Providence on their Montana road trip.