South Carolina remained the No. 1 crew in The Associated Press girls’s basketball ballot on Monday.
The Gamecocks acquired all 36 votes from a nationwide media panel, marking the seventh consecutive week that they’ve been No. 1. South Carolina had a run of 38 straight weeks as the highest crew over the earlier two seasons earlier than LSU was the preseason No. 1 this yr.
With most groups having a lightweight schedule final week forward of the vacations, the highest 10 had been unchanged. UCLA, North Carolina State, Iowa and Texas adopted the Gamecocks.
Southern California, LSU, Colorado, Stanford and Baylor had been subsequent.
Ohio State dropped 4 spots to No. 17 after dropping to UCLA by six factors.
West Virginia gave the Big 12 Conference a fifth crew within the ballot because the Mountaineers entered at No. 25 and Washington fell out. It’s the primary look since 2021 for WVU. The Big 12 now has Texas, Baylor, No. 11 Kansas State, No. 23 TCU and West Virginia ranked, marking the primary time for the reason that 2021-22 season that’s occurred. The Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC are the one three conferences to have each faculty nonetheless with a profitable report.
Conference play begins this week for most colleges, with a trio of stellar video games set for Saturday. UCLA performs USC, Colorado faces Utah and Baylor meets Texas. The subsequent day has a key Big East matchup with Marquette visiting UConn.
This is the seventh time the ballot has been launched on Christmas, with the earlier one coming in 2017. That yr was as notable as Stanford dropped out of the rankings for the primary time in 17 years. The different years had been 1979, 1983, 1995, 2000 and 2006.
