diff --git a/python/cugraph-pyg/cugraph_pyg/data/cugraph_store.py b/python/cugraph-pyg/cugraph_pyg/data/cugraph_store.py
index 6192cd621d5..d1b24543956 100644
--- a/python/cugraph-pyg/cugraph_pyg/data/cugraph_store.py
+++ b/python/cugraph-pyg/cugraph_pyg/data/cugraph_store.py
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ def __init__(
         num_nodes_dict: Dict[str, int],
         *,
         multi_gpu: bool = False,
-        order: str = "CSC",
+        order: str = "CSR",
     ):
         """
         Constructs a new CuGraphStore from the provided
@@ -260,11 +260,11 @@ def __init__(
             Whether the store should be backed by a multi-GPU graph.
             Requires dask to have been set up.
 
-        order: str (Optional ["CSR", "CSC"], default = CSC)
-            The order to use for sampling.  Should nearly always be CSC
-            unless there is a specific expectation of "reverse" sampling.
-            It is also not uncommon to use CSR order for correctness
-            testing, which some cuGraph-PyG tests do.
+        order: str (Optional ["CSR", "CSC"], default = CSR)
+            The order to use for sampling.  CSR corresponds to the
+            standard OGB dataset order that is usually used in PyG.
+            CSC order constructs the same graph as CSR, but with
+            edges in the opposite direction.
         """
 
         if None in G: