VERMILLION, S.D.—South Dakota women's basketball is ranked No. 23 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major preseason poll released Tuesday night.
 
The Coyotes have been ranked for 74 consecutive polls released by CollegeInsider.com.
 
South Dakota (5-4) has won three-straight games to pull above .500 on the year. All four of the Coyotes losses have been to Power 5 teams, including No. 1 South Carolina and No. 18 Texas A&M.
 
The trio of super seniors in Chloe Lamb, Hannah Sjerven and Liv Korngable continue to pace the Coyotes again this season. Lamb is averaging a team-high 15.9 points. She dropped a career-high 30 points to lead the Coyotes to a win over the ACC's Pitt in the U.S. Virgin Islands, earning a spot on the Paradise Jam's Reef All-Tournament Team. Sjerven followed that performance up with her own career-high 35 points against Wichita State last Saturday. She's averaging 15.2 points, a team-best 7.7 boards and a league-leading 2.1 blocks per game. Korngable joins them in double-digits with 11.7 points per game and a team-best 3.7 assists per contest.
 
South Dakota wraps up its three-game home stretch with Valparaiso at 7 p.m. Friday night inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center.
 
The CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast, Western Athletic. Head coaches from 31 mid-major programs make up the voting panel.
 
CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Preseason Poll
1. BYU (30), 7-0
2. Missouri State (1), 5-2
3. Florida Gulf Coast, 7-1
4. Gonzaga, 7-1
5. Stephen F. Austin, 8-1
6. Princeton, 6-2
7. Cal Baptist, 5-1
8. Columbia, 8-2
9. Stony Brook, 7-1
10. Drake, 5-2
11. Belmont, 4-4
12. Long Beach State, 7-0
13. Buffalo, 5-2
14. Kent State, 6-1
15. IUPUI, 4-3
16. UC Davis, 4-3
17. Northern Iowa, 5-2
18. Delaware, 6-2
19. Bucknell, 6-2
20. UTA, 6-2
21. Towson, 8-1
22. South Dakota State, 3-5
23. South Dakota, 5-4
24. Quinnipiac, 4-3
25. Lehigh, 6-3