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
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