UConn New No. 1 in Women's AP Top 25; South Carolina Drops

UConn has moved up to No. 1 in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll for the first time this season after beating top-ranked South Carolina last week. The Gamecocks fell one spot to second. This is the third consecutive week that there’s been a different No. 1 team in the women's AP Top 25. UConn has been first for at least one week every season since 2012-13 and 246 times since Jan. 17, 1995, when the Huskies sat atop the poll for the first time. Louisville, North Carolina State and Texas A&M round out the top five teams in the poll.

	Record	Pts	Prv
1. UConn (26)	16-1	746	2
2. South Carolina (2)	17-2	700	1
3. Louisville	19-1	675	3
4. NC State	13-2	642	4
5. Texas A&M (1)	19-1	639	6
6. Stanford (1)	18-2	627	5
7. Baylor	16-2	564	7
8. UCLA	12-3	530	8
9. Maryland	14-2	515	9
10. Arizona	14-2	505	10
11. Michigan	11-1	432	12
12. South Florida	11-1	386	14
13. Oregon	12-4	377	11
14. Indiana	13-4	332	15
15. Ohio St.	12-3	303	12
16. Gonzaga	18-2	272	17
17. Kentucky	14-5	260	20
18. Arkansas	15-7	248	18
19. DePaul	11-4	174	22
19. West Virginia	16-3	174	19
21. Tennessee	12-5	172	16
22. Georgia	16-4	139	24
23. South Dakota St.	17-2	130	23
24. Northwestern	11-4	92	21
25. Missouri St.	13-2	79	25

Others receiving votes: Rutgers 10, Stephen F Austin 7, Oklahoma St. 6, Florida Gulf Coast 5, Georgia Tech 3, Mississippi St. 2, Virginia Tech 2, Rice 2.