As the 2002-03 season approaches, Duke and Tennessee are clearly the favorites. The Blue Devils and Lady Vols, who both reached last season's Final Four, have dominated the top two spots in every preseason poll released so far.

In all but one set of rankings, Duke is No. 1 followed by Tennessee at No. 2.

After that, however, the rankings rarely matched up. Louisiana State, Kansas State, Connecticut, Texas Tech and Stanford each were tabbed third by at least one publication.

UConn, the defending NCAA champion, is ranked as high as third and as low as 12th. One other noteworthy observation: Louisiana Tech, the only team besides Tennessee to appear in every NCAA Tournament in women's basketball history, was typically ranked in the teens and was completely omitted from the All-Star Girls Report's top 25.

2002-03 PRESEASON POLLS
ASGR	ATHLON	BBALL NEWS	LINDY'S
1. Duke	1. Duke	1. Duke	1. Tennessee
2. Tennessee	2. Tennessee	2. Tennessee	2. Duke
3. Connecticut	3. Kansas State	3. Texas Tech	3. Stanford
4. Georgia	4. Vanderbilt	4. Purdue	4. Connecticut
5. LSU	5. Notre Dame	5. LSU	5. Purdue
6. Texas Tech	6. LSU	6. Connecticut	6. Texas Tech
7. Texas	7. Stanford	7. Stanford	7. LSU
8. Vanderbilt	8. Connecticut	8. Kansas State	8. Kansas State
9. Purdue	9. Georgia	9. Vanderbilt	9. Texas
10. Penn State	10. Texas	10. Georgia	10. Georgia
11. Kansas State	11. North Carolina	11. Texas	11. Vanderbilt
12. Stanford	12. Tulane	12. Notre Dame	12. Notre Dame
13. North Carolina	13. Minnesota	13. North Carolina	13. Penn State
14. Colorado	14. Arkansas	14. Penn State	14. Louisiana Tech
15. Virginia	15. Texas Tech	15. Arkansas	15. Iowa State
16. Notre Dame	16. Colorado State	16. Minnesota	16. Mississippi St
17. Clemson	17. Purdue	17. UCSB	17. North Carolina
18. Oregon	18. Louisiana Tech	18. Colorado State	18. Arkansas
19. TCU	19. Iowa State	19. Iowa State	19. Minnesota
20. Ohio State	20. Cincinnati	20. Cincinnati	20. Cincinnati
21. Arkansas	21. New Mexico	21. Louisiana Tech	21. UCSB
22. Oklahoma	22. Oregon	22. Washington	22. Oregon
23. Mississippi St	23. Houston	23. Old Dominion	23. Oklahoma
24. N.C. State	24. Southern Cal	24. TCU	24. New Mexico
25. Florida	25. Penn State	25. Oregon	25. Washington

2002-03 PRESEASON POLLS, CONT.
STREET&SMITH	WBNS	SLAM	GBALLMAG.COM
1. Duke	1. Duke	1. Duke	1. Duke
2. Tennessee	2. Tennessee	2. Tennessee	2. Tennessee
3. LSU	3. LSU	3. Kansas State	3. Connecticut
4. Notre Dame	4. Texas Tech	4. Texas	4. Kansas State
5. Kansas State	5. Connecticut	5. Connecticut	5. LSU
6. Georgia	6. Purdue	6. Georgia	6. Stanford
7. Stanford	7. Georgia	7. Purdue	7. Texas
8. Louisiana Tech	8. Kansas State	8. LSU	8. Vanderbilt
9. North Carolina	9. Stanford	9. Texas Tech	9. Georgia
10. Purdue	10. Arkansas	10. Stanford	10. Purdue
11. George Wash	11. Notre Dame
12. Connecticut	12. Penn State
13. Minnesota	13. Texas
14. Boston Coll	14. North Carolina
15. Tulane	15. Colorado State
16. Penn State	16. Vanderbilt
17. Cincinnati	17. TCU
18. Texas	18. George Wash
19. Oklahoma	19. Minnesota
20. Virginia	20. Louisiana Tech
21. Texas Tech	21. Mississippi St
22. Pepperdine	22. UCSB
23. Rice	23. BYU
24. Arkansas	24. ODU
25. Washington	25. (tie) Oregon Boston Coll

(Notes: ASGR = All-Star Girls Report; BBall News = Basketball News; WBNS = Women's Basketball News Service.)