NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds South Carolina, Iowa, Southern California and Texas are also the top four teams in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.
The undefeated Gamecocks (32-0) received all 35 first-place votes in Monday’s poll and are followed by the Hawkeyes (29-4), Trojans (26-5) and Longhorns (30-4).
The top three were unchanged, with Texas climbing one spot after winning last week’s Big 12 tournament. Stanford (28-5) slipped one spot to fifth.
UCLA (25-6), Ohio State (25-5), LSU (28-5), Notre Dame (26-6) and UConn (29-5) round out the top 10.
The rest of the Top 25:
11. North Carolina State
12. Oregon State
13. Virginia Tech
14. Indiana
15. Kansas State
16. Gonzaga
17. Colorado
18. Oklahoma
19. Baylor
20. UNLV
21. Utah
22. Syracuse
23. Louisville
24. Creighton
25. Fairfield
The AP will release a final poll following the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the rankings’ 47-year history.
–Field Level Media