South Carolina Keeps Grip On No. 1 In AP Women’s Poll As Top Teams Stumble; Kansas State Up To 2 – News18

South Carolina remained the clear No. 1 crew within the nation and No. 2 Kansas State matched its finest rating ever after a chaotic week that noticed practically half of the AP Top 25 lose at the very least one sport.

The Gamecocks obtained all 35 first-place votes Monday within the newest Associated Press ladies’s basketball ballot after their 76-70 street victory over then-No. 9 LSU.

While Dawn Staley’s crew stayed unbeaten, many different high colleges stumbled. LSU was considered one of 5 high 10 groups to lose a sport final week. Overall, a dozen ranked groups had at the very least one defeat.

Kansas State now has its highest rating since Nov. 25, 2002. The Wildcats have received 15 straight video games, the previous couple of with out star middle Ayoka Lee. She is sidelined for a couple of extra weeks with an ankle damage. Kansas State has a troublesome stretch forward with video games at Oklahoma and Texas.

Iowa moved again as much as third as Caitlin Clark moved nearer to the all-time scoring report in ladies’s school basketbal. She is in fourth place with 3,389 factors and will go Jackie Stiles (3,393) and Kelsey Mitchell (3,402) within the Hawkeyes’ subsequent sport on Wednesday at Northwestern. She is 138 factors behind Kelsey Plum’s report mark of three,527.

Stanford and North Carolina State adopted Iowa within the ballot. Colorado, which break up a pair of video games in Oregon, fell three spots to sixth. UCLA dropped 5 locations to seventh after an additional time loss to Utah and a defeat at dwelling to Washington State.

Ohio State vaulted up 4 spots to eighth whereas LSU stayed put at 9. Indiana was tenth.

UConn and Texas, which each have been within the high 10 final week, misplaced to Notre Dame and Oklahoma, respectively. The Huskies dropped three locations to 11 and Texas two spots to twelfth.

Princeton re-entered the ballot at No. 25 whereas using a ten-sport successful streak. The Tigers, who have been ranked for one week in November, are 15-3 on the season with losses to UCLA, Indiana and Rhode Island. Princeton performs at dwelling towards Yale and Brown this weekend. The Tigers changed Florida State within the rankings. The Seminoles misplaced to Duke by 42 factors.

Oregon State jumped up seven spots to No. 18 after a stellar weekend with victories over Colorado and Utah. The Beavers, who had their first high-5 win since 2019 within the victory over the then-No. 3 Buffaloes, have received 5 of their final six video games. They play rival Oregon of their lone contest this week.

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