HELENA, Mont. – The Valley City State University women's basketball team has been selected eighth in the 2026–27 Frontier Conference Coaches' Preseason Poll, released Monday, Oct. 19.

VCSU collected 60 points in voting by the league's 12 head coaches, finishing five points behind seventh-place Providence. Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own teams.

Dakota State topped the poll with 117 points and eight first-place votes. The Trojans enter the season after winning the Frontier Conference regular-season championship and reaching the NAIA national semifinals during a 30–6 campaign.

Rocky Mountain was picked second with 110 points and two first-place votes. Defending conference tournament champion Montana Tech followed in third with 103 points and the remaining two first-place votes.

Carroll placed fourth with 89 points, followed by MSU-Northern with 75, Montana Western with 70 and Providence with 65.

The conference schedule includes 22 games for each program, split evenly between home and road contests. The Frontier Conference Tournament will take place Feb. 26–March 1 at the Butte Civic Center in Butte, Mont., with the women's quarterfinals beginning Feb. 27.