Women’s Basketball Picked 5th in SSAC Preseason Poll

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Xavier women's basketball team enters its first season of Southern States Athletic Conference play projected as a top-5 team. In the SSAC's preseason coaches' poll, XULA finished tied for 5th with Life. The Gold Nuggets are coming off a 2025-2026 campaign in which they went 19-11 overall and 14-8 in the Red River Athletic Conference. Loyola New Orleans, last year's SSAC champion, was picked by league coaches to repeat in 2026-27. William Carey, Faulkner and Tennessee Southern rounded out the top 5. The 2027 SSAC Women's Basketball Championship, presented by Chappy's Deli, will take place Feb....