ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's basketball was picked to finish sixth in the 2022 Ivy League preseason poll, the conference announce Monday. Cornell is coming off a sixth place finish in the 2021-22 season where the team went 4-10 in the Ivy, 9-16 overall. Four of the 16 losses came from games where the Big Red trailed by 10-points or fewer at the final horn.

Cornell returns three of their top-five scorers from last year, including Ania McNicholas, Shannon Mulroy, and Olivia Snyder. McNicholas and Mulroy each tallied over 200 points a piece, with Snyder notching 130 despite missing the final 11 games of the season due to injury. Sophomore Summer Parker-Hall stepped up as a freshman to help fill the gap left by Snyder. She earned a starting spot against Brown on January 29, becoming a key part in Cornell's offense and defense through the remaining eight match ups. Parker-Hall shot .449 from the field and .417 behind the arc in the 2021-22 season, and ranked fifth on the team in rebounds, grabbing 68 of the boards. McNicholas returns as a defensive specialist for the Big Red after ranking second on the team in defensive rebounds with 89, and leading the Red and being fifth in conference with 51 steals.

The Rebecca Quinn Morgan '60 Head Coach of Women's Basketball, Dayna Smith, enters her 19th season at the helm. Smith, already the winningest coach in Cornell history earning her 200th career victory with a win over Binghamton last year, becomes the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League following the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith. 

"I always believe in hard work and being the team that out works people," Smith said during the 2022 Ivy League Media Day call. "We might not have the most talented player or most talented roster top-to-bottom, but we always battle."

IVY LEAGUE POLL
1. Princeton (15) - 126
2. Columbia (1) - 108
3. Yale - 85
4. Harvard - 81
5. Penn - 77
6. Cornell - 41
7. Dartmouth - 32
8. Brown - 26

The Big Red are set to kick off their season at Colgate on Monday, November 7 at 7 p.m. The game will be available to stream on ESPN+ for fans at home.