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Associated Press
South Carolina women's hoops passed its archetypal trial of the season, and present the top-ranked Gamecocks person a tougher challenge: a sojourn to No. 2 Stanford connected Sunday.
South Carolina remained the unanimous prime arsenic the apical squad successful the archetypal regular-season Top 25 women's hoops canvass from The Associated Press. Texas, Iowa and UConn circular retired the archetypal 5 successful the canvass released Monday.
The Gamecocks (3-0) bushed then-No. 17 Maryland 81-56 past week, mounting up the showdown with Stanford.
It volition beryllium the 63rd gathering betwixt the apical 2 teams successful the women's AP Top 25 and the seventh clip it has happened successful November. The past 1-2 matchup was besides South Carolina-Stanford, with the Gamecocks beating the Cardinal by 4 points past Dec. 21, rallying from an 18-point deficit. The No. 1 squad holds a 39-23 vantage successful the meetings.
"I telephone it a win-win. Because nary substance what happens successful the game, you're gonna larn much astir your team; radical person to bash the close thing," Stanford manager Tara VanDerveer said. "It's benignant of similar a tourney game; I mean, 1-2 matchup, it's awesome."
Before Sunday's game, Dawn Staley's Gamecocks volition play astatine Clemson connected Thursday. Stanford hosts Cal Poly connected Wednesday night.
Ohio State made the biggest leap successful the caller poll, climbing six spots to No. 8 aft upending then-No. 5 Tennessee successful its play opener past week. The Lady Vols fell to 11th.
Louisville and Iowa State were sixth and seventh, and NC State and Notre Dame circular retired the apical 10..
Villanova entered the rankings for the archetypal clip since 2018 astatine No. 24 aft knocking disconnected then-No. 24 Princeton. The Tigers fell retired of the poll. Utah came successful astatine No. 25, replacing 23rd-ranked South Dakota State, which mislaid to Creighton.
Crossing the period mark
LSU has scored implicit 100 points successful each of its archetypal 3 games. The 343 points combined is the astir successful the archetypal 3 games of a play by immoderate squad successful the past 20 years.
"The nonconference docket was done earlier we knew we had Angel Reese and each these transfers coming successful here," LSU manager Kim Mulkey said. "The bully happening astir close present is we're gathering confidence. Making mistakes successful a crippled that tin beryllium corrected erstwhile the SEC does travel around."
It's the 2nd clip the schoolhouse has had 3 consecutive 100-point games, matching the people acceptable during the 1995-96 season. The Tigers person a accidental to interruption that Wednesday erstwhile they big Houston Christian successful a matinee game.
Rare loss
Tennessee's nonaccomplishment to Ohio State was the archetypal clip since 2008 that a top-five squad was beaten successful its archetypal crippled by a squad extracurricular the archetypal 5 successful the poll, including teams not ranked successful the canvass astatine all, since No. 3 Maryland mislaid to unranked TCU, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. The top-five teams had gone 69-0 successful those games until past week.
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