In a pre-season poll of Frontier Conference women's basketball coaches, last year's regular season and conference tournament champion Lewis-Clark State was picked to win the 2008-2009 league title. 

Carroll College was second in the balloting followed by Westminster College, Rocky Mountain, Montana State-Northern, Montana Western, Montana Tech and the University of Great Falls.

Lewis-Clark received six first place votes, Carroll College two and Rocky Mountain one.

In this year's women's poll, there was one ballot that gave both Carroll and L-C a first place vote and one ballot that gave both MSU-Northern and Rocky a third place vote. In the Carroll/L-C ballot, the points for first and second were added together and divided by two with each team given half of the total. The same formula used for the RMC/Northern third/fourth ballot.

Lewis-Clark State (6)	47.5
Carroll College (2)	40.5
Westminster College	38
Rocky Mountain (1)	32.5
MSU-Northern	24.5
Montana Western	18
Montana Tech	16
University of Great Falls	7