St. John’s was placed right in the middle of the 11-team Big East in the poll of conference women’s basketball coaches announced Tuesday at the Garden. It’s hard to say whether the sixth-place projection is good news or bad news for the Red Storm because they’ve recently overachieved when expectations were low and underachieved when they were high.

The release of the poll and the preseason all-conference teams were typically good news for defending national champion UConn, which opens the season with the No. 1 national ranking. The Huskies were tabbed to win a sixth straight conference title, Sarah Strong is the pick as Player of the Year, four other Huskies are preseason all-conference selections and Kellis Fisher is preseason Freshman of the Year.

Marquette was picked second and Seton

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