Wright State women’s basketball coach Mike Bradbury doesn’t put a whole lot of stock in preseason polls. What coach does?

But Bradbury had no problem with the results of the Horizon League preseason poll, which was released Monday at the conference’s media day in Rosemont, Ill. The Raiders were picked to finish third. That’s where they finished last season when they were 21-13 overall and 12-6 in the conference.

“It’s probably fair just based on the way everybody finished last year and who everyone has coming back,” Bradbury said. “Nobody knows the newcomers from any of the teams. That’s the way it goes in these preseason polls. I don’t ever have a problem with them. I don’t take them seriously.”

As expected, Green Bay, the Horizon League regular-season champion six years in a row and the tournament champion 10 of the last 14 years, was picked to win the championship, receiving 25 of 27 first-place votes. Detroit was picked to finish second after finishing second last season and received two first-place votes.

Bradbury expects it to be a competitive season, and there’s no doubt his program is on the way up. The Raiders posted more wins last season than in any other season since they moved to Division I in 1987.

“This is the first year we’ve had the talent to match up with Green Bay,” Bradbury said. “I think our talent level is good enough. We’re just ridiculously young. We have no seniors.”

The Raiders do have the preseason pick for conference of the year, sophomore guard Kim Demmings. She was the Horizon League Newcomer of the Year last season and led all Division I freshman in scoring with 18.4 points per game. She set a Wright State freshman record with 626 points.

With the departure of Green Bay’s Julie Wojta, the player of the year last season as a senior, Demmings is the leading returning scorer in the Horizon League.

“Kim’s a great kid. She works extremely hard,” Bradbury said. “She’s very deserving of that.”

The Raiders open the exhibition season Nov. 1 at home against Indianapolis and visit Southeast Missouri on Nov. 9 in their regular-season opener.