For the 2008-2009 women's college basketball season thirty-one coaches are partaking in the weekly NCAA women's basketball poll sponsored by ESPN and USA Today. A first place vote nets twenty-five points while a 25th place vote nets one point.
The women's ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll for the week of March 9 has five ACC teams, six Big 12 teams, four Big East teams, one Big Ten team, three Pac-10 teams, four SEC teams, and two mid-major teams with South Dakota State ranked 14 and Xavier ranked 18. Familiar teams remain at the top of the coaches NCAA women's basketball poll with Connecticut, North Carolina, Stanford, Oklahoma, Maryland, Louisville, Auburn, Baylor, and Duke ranked 1 thru 8.
Coaches NCAA women's basketball poll - March 9: