Jackrabbit Women’s basketball is getting some positive attention leading into the season. Four players were selected to Summit League preseason teams and senior Brooklyn Meyer was named the Preseason Summit League Player of the Year, who also earned it last season. Filling out the first team is Meyer and senior guard Madison Mathiowetz. Both are returning starters for SDSU and had solid seasons for the Jacks last year, Meyer averaging 17 points a game and Mathiowetz 8.9.

On the second team was sophomore Katie Vasecka and junior Maggie Hartwick. Vasecka had solid contribution as a freshman last year, placing onto the Summit Leagues Freshman Team. She averaged 8.4 points a game and shot over .420 from beyond the arc, going 36 of 84. Hartwick is a transfer from Evansville, where she played roughly 32 minutes a game for the Aces. Last year, she was the only Missouri Valley Conference player to average top five in rebounding and top ten in scoring. Hartwick averaged 9.2 rebounds and 16.2 points a game. The rebounding number is impressive due to her firstly being a guard, and secondly only being six-foot-one. 

Last season the Jacks steamrolled the conference on route to a perfect 16-0 record in league play. Summit League pollers have high expectations for SDSU following this season, with the Jacks voted to be the number one team in the conference in the Summit League Preseason Poll. Voters almost unanimously voted SDSU to be the best, 34 in total choosing the Jacks and two deferring to North Dakota State. By the end of the season, SDSU was the AP ranked 23rd best team in the country. By the season’s end, they were 30-4.

The team’s first game of the season will be against the Creighton Bluejays in Omaha on Nov. 3. Creighton last year ended the season as the 25th best team in the country according to the coaches poll.