Gamecocks still No. 1 in AP women's hoops poll

South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 prime successful The Associated Press women's hoops canvass released Monday arsenic the Gamecocks support adjacent ticker connected the foot wounded of reigning Player of the Year Aliyah Boston.

The Gamecocks received each 29 first-place votes successful the canvass released Monday, a time aft Boston near a crippled with her injury. Coach Dawn Staley said Boston was "questionable" going guardant but added that the "team doc wasn't too, excessively concerned."

South Carolina's adjacent crippled is Tuesday astatine location against No. 15 UCLA.

Stanford remained No. 2 aft cruising done a tourney successful Hawaii. It's the 618th quality for Cardinal manager Tara VanDerveer, tying the precocious Pat Summitt for astir all-time. Summitt's teams lone missed being successful the canvass 14 times during her Hall of Fame vocation astatine Tennessee.

UConn, Ohio State and Indiana rounded retired the apical five.

The Huskies are 1 of 4 Big East teams to beryllium ranked this week arsenic Marquette entered the canvass astatine No. 24. It's the archetypal clip the Big East has 4 ranked teams since the league realigned successful 2014. The league is 56-14 truthful acold this season, including going 8-2 against ranked teams.

"We've been trying to gain a small much respect," Marquette manager Megan Duffy said of the Big East. "Tried to docket tougher non-conference (games). 'Nova's playing people. Us going to the Bahamas was great. Creighton's doing what they've been doing since past season. Getting immoderate of those prime wins is everything."

North Carolina moved up 2 spots to No. 6 aft rallying to bushed then-No. 5 Iowa State successful the Phil Knight tournament. The Cyclones fell to eighth.

The Tar Heels sojourn the Hoosiers connected Tuesday successful the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Indiana returns location aft winning 2 games successful Las Vegas astatine a subpar venue that lacked basal necessities.

Notre Dame remained No. 7 portion Virginia Tech and Iowa finished disconnected the apical 10. At No. 9, Virginia Tech has matched its champion ranking ever and is successful the apical 10 for the archetypal clip since 1999.

Tennessee fell retired of the canvass this week marking the 56th clip successful the 827-week past of the canvass that the Lady Vols weren't ranked. Kansas State besides fell retired with Gonzaga moving successful astatine No. 23.

FALLING CARDINALS

Louisville dropped to 18th successful the canvass this week aft falling to South Dakota State successful the 5th spot crippled astatine the Battle 4 Atlantis past week. It's the Cardinals lowest ranking since Jan. 11, 2016.

Louisville entered the apical 10 successful the preseason canvass successful 2017 and hadn't been retired since, a span of 98 consecutive weeks. It was the longest progressive streak.