COLBY, Kan. – 2024 NJCAA Division 2 women’s basketball National Runner-Up Johnson County Community College has been unanimously picked to win their fifth consecutive Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Division 2 Women’s Basketball regular season title in a vote of league coaches ahead of the 2024-25 season.

With seven of eight league coaches participating in the preseason poll, the Cavaliers received a perfect 56-point total with all seven first-place votes to easily outpace second-place team Kansas City Kansas Community College who earned 45 total points and was picked second in three of the seven ballots. JCCC has gone a combined 101-6 the past three seasons including a 37-2 mark in the KJCCC during that span with their only loss of the season last year coming in the National Title game to Kirkwood Community College. Since winning the NJCAA Division 2 Women’s Basketball National Title in 2015, Johnson County has made five appearances at the NJCAA Division 2 National Tournament in eight seasons that the tournament was held with three NJCAA National Runner-Up finishes along with a fifth-place finish and a trip to the NJCAA Division 2 Elite 8.

A tight race for third saw Allen edge out Highland as the Red Devils received 39 total points after finishing second in the regular season standings last year. The Scotties meanwhile were picked fourth with 38 total points after finishing second on two ballots as the Scotties are looking to bounce back from last year’s 17-14 overall record under second-year head coach Saundra Proctor following back-to-back third-place finishes in 2022 and 2023. Neosho County was picked fifth in the poll with 32 points while Hesston (16 points), Labette (14 points), and Fort Scott (12 points) round out the eight-team preseason poll. 

The 2024-25 women’s basketball season will get underway on Friday, November 1st with six of the eight league teams in action on the opening day of the season. All eight teams will have their season officially started by November 4th as non-conference action will take place throughout the opening two months of the season before seeing KJCCC play begin on Saturday, January 11th with all eight teams playing a home-and-home double-round-robin schedule against one another.

Postseason play will begin on Monday, March 3rd with the top four- teams in the final regular season standings hosting the bottom four teams in the standings for the right to advance to the NJCAA Plains District Tournament semifinal round. The semifinals and finals will take place March 7-8 on the campus of Johnson County Community College inside the JCCC Gymnasium with the NJCAA Division 2 Women’s Basketball National Tournament slated to take place March 17-22, 2025 in Joplin, Missouri.