For the first time in the 47-year history of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll no team from Texas is in the Top 25. That ends a 835-week run dating to the first poll in 1976.
Cameron Brink had 14 points and a season-high 16 rebounds and Brooke Demetre made five 3s and scored 17 points, leading second-ranked Stanford past No. 23 Gonzaga 84-63.
Kim Mulkey is The Associated Press women's basketball Coach of the Year in her first season at LSU. Mulkey received 10 votes from the 30-member national media panel that votes on the AP Top 25.
Friday night the 16th-seeded Montana Bobcats will be going against defending national champion Stanford and Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer, the winningest women’s basketball coach of all time.
UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson has seen the Bruins progress from a team that had a school-record 20 true freshmen play during coach Chip Kelly’s first season in 2018 to being ranked for the first time in four years.
Point guard Kiana Williams of national champion Stanford is declaring herself eligible for the WNBA draft. Aari McDonald of Arizona is also entering the WNBA draft.
Outgoing Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott was very proud to be in San Antonio to celebrate the conference’s first NCAA women’s basketball championship since 1992.
The Stanford Cardinal are national champions in women’s basketball for the third time and first in 29 years. Haley Jones scored 17 points as the Cardinal held off Arizona, 54-53.