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AP NCAA women's basketball poll reaction: Biggest early-season game for every Top 25 team

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The AP Top 25 preseason poll is the unofficial start to the 2024-25 college women's basketball season.

UConn is the reigning national champion, returning all but one key contributor.

The Gamecocks host UConn in what might be the marquee nonconference game of the entire season .

USC will be trying to win its first title since 1984 as a member of the Big Ten.

Notre Dame opens the season against the Cardinals in Paris , France .

South Carolina is an early measuring stick for many teams and Iowa State's first test of any kind at the Fort Myers Tip-Off Thanksgiving weekend.

LSU might instead draw NC State in their second game of the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship during Thanksgiving week .

Baylor doesn't play a true road game until opening Big 12 play at Kansas on December 21st .

North Carolina faces a tough early-season game against UConn in Greensboro , North Carolina .

Kansas State faces a backcourt battle between all-league players Serena Sundell and Jaylnn Gregory .

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