begin in the fall of 2010. The series will feature a home-and-home format over the initial two-year agreement, and each of the Big 12's teams will play in each Challenge, while one Big Ten team, Wisconsin, will play two Challenge games each year. Pre-season polls Preseason All-Americans Jayne Appel, Stanford Tina Charles, Connecticut Jantel Lavender, Ohio State Maya Moore, Connecticut Monica Wright, Virginia November 3: Maya Moore became just the seventh unanimous choice on The Associated Press' preseason All-America team. She received all 40 votes from a national media panel. It's the third straight year a player has been a unanimous choice in the preseason. Moore was joined on the preseason squad by teammate Tina Charles. It was the fifth time that two players from the same team made the All-America squad. Connecticut has also had two of the four other pairs of teammates on a preseason team – Jen Rizzotti and Kara Wolters in 1995–96 and Shea Ralph and Svetlana Abrosimova in 2000–01. Preseason All-Conference teams Big Ten 2009–10 Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year Jantel Lavender Preseason All-Big Ten Coaches Team Jenna Smith, Sr., F, ILL Allyssa DeHaan, Sr., C, MSU JANTEL LAVENDER, Jr., C, OSU Samantha Prahalis, So., G, OSU Tyra Grant, Sr., F, PSU Preseason All-Big Ten Media Team Jenna Smith, Sr., F, ILL Allyssa DeHaan, Sr., C, MSU JANTEL LAVENDER, Jr., C, OSU Samantha Prahalis, So., G, OSU Tyra Grant, Sr., F, PSU Conference USA 2009–10 C-USA Preseason PLAYER OF THE YEAR Emma Cannon, UCF 2009–10 C-USA Preseason Team Courtney Taylor, Houston Brittany Gilliam, SMU Pauline Love, Southern Miss Emma Cannon, UCF Jareica Hughes, UTEP Regular season 2009 Big Ten/ACC Challenge schedule Early season tournaments Conference winners and tournaments Thirty athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers applied if more than one team tops the season standings. In the table below, if teams tied for the regular-season title, the first team listed won the tiebreaker for top seed in the tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. The Ivy League does not have a conference tournament, instead giving their automatic invitation to their regular-season champion. The Great West Conference began play in 2009–10 and does not receive