GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Five Atlantic Coast Conference women’s basketball teams are ranked in the ESPNW Preseason Top 25 rankings released on Monday, tied for the second most of any conference.

Louisville, the 2019-20 ACC preseason favorite, headlines the group with a top-10 ranking at No. 7. Florida State is ranked No. 11 and NC State closely follows at No. 13 in the poll.

Notre Dame and Miami are ranked 16th and 18th, respectively.

The 2019-20 ACC Women’s Basketball season tips off on Tuesday, Nov. 5, with 10 of the league’s teams in action. New for this year, the ACC will play an 18-game conference slate, which includes a pair of matchups in early December to open the league schedule.

All 135 ACC regular-season conference games will be available through the ESPN family of networks, including the new ACC Network and ACC Network Extra, or the conference’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN).

Sixty regular-season games, including 42 conference games, are set to be televised by ACC Network, and an additional 12 games will air on other ESPN networks. A league-record 121 games will air on ACC Network Extra, spanning non-conference and conference action.