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Associated Press
South Carolina remained No. 1 successful The Associated Press women's hoops poll Monday aft a chaotic week that saw fractional of the apical 10 teams suffer astatine slightest 1 game.
The Gamecocks again were the unanimous choice, receiving each 29 votes from a nationalist media sheet aft edging No. 2 Stanford in an overtime thriller Sunday. South Carolina has present won 16 consecutive games against ranked teams dating to a 2021 nonaccomplishment successful the Final Four to Stanford, which remained 2nd successful this week's poll.
UConn moved up 2 spots to 3rd aft beating then-No. 3 Texas and 10th-ranked N.C. State past week. Ohio State is 4th and Iowa State is fifth.
There person already been 8 losses by teams ranked successful the archetypal 10 this season, the astir earlier Thanksgiving since 2000 according to ESPN. Of the 8 losses, 3 person travel against unranked teams. Seven apical 10 teams mislaid earlier Thanksgiving past year.
Huskies manager Geno Auriemma sees losses by the apical teams arsenic a bully happening for the sport.
"It's large motion for women's basketball, I deliberation that present you can't conscionable locomotion into the gym and you know, rotation it retired determination and go, 'Yeah, well, we're a apical 10 squad successful the country, and we tin conscionable rotation implicit (you). Just due to the fact that you're unranked,'" helium said. "I deliberation those days are over."
Auriemma sees the inclination continuing arsenic the play progresses.
"I deliberation if this keeps up, that's the benignant of happening that's made March Madness," helium said. "The madness that is connected the men's side, right. And we request immoderate of that madness connected the women's side. More of it."
Indiana jumped six spots to No. 6 portion Notre Dame, North Carolina, Iowa and Louisville circular retired the apical 10.
The Longhorns person dropped 3 consecutive games and fell 16 spots to 19th successful 1 of the biggest falls since the AP Top 25 became a writers' canvass successful 1994-95. Tennessee, which is 2-3 for the archetypal clip since the 1981-82 season, dropped 12 spots to No. 23.
The Lady Vols mislaid 2 games past week, including falling to UCLA successful the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Bruins vaulted into the canvass astatine No. 19.
Like galore teams crossed the country, Texas and Tennessee welcomed successful a fewer caller players from the transportation portal and it takes for them to adapt.
"You've got a batch of teams present that due to the fact that of the transportation portal, they're getting truly bully players. But they're trying to larn however that caller schoolhouse plays, what the standards are," said Louisville manager Jeff Walz, who has 2 transfers of his own. "And it makes it different, successful my opinion."
Kansas State entered the canvass astatine No. 25 aft beating then-No. 4 Iowa past week. Oklahoma and Nebraska fell retired of the poll.
TOPPING RANKED TEAMS
The Big East improved to 6-0 against Top 25 opponents this season. UConn and No. 16 Creighton each person 2 portion No. 23 Villanova and Marquette each person one. The Golden Eagles are conscionable extracurricular the Top 25 this week.
RISING HEELS
North Carolina moved up 5 spots to eighth, its champion ranking since 2015 erstwhile the Tar Heels were besides eighth. They are playing successful Oregon connected Thursday successful the Phil Knight Invitational and past either Iowa State oregon Michigan State connected Sunday.
FEAST WEEK
Many of the apical women's teams are playing successful tournaments astir the state arsenic good arsenic Mexico and the Bahamas this week.
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