No. 1 again! Impressive first week vaults South Carolina WBB in latest Top 25
The South Carolina women’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the newest Associated Press Top 25 released Monday.
USC climbed five spots from No. 6 in the 2023-24 preseason AP poll after convincing wins over then-No. 10 Notre Dame (100-71) and then-No. 14 Maryland (114-76) to start the season.
Rounding out the new top five are Iowa (2), UCLA (3), Utah (4) and Colorado (5).
LSU fell from No. 1 to No. 7 after dropping its opener against then-No. 20 Colorado, 92-78. UConn dropped from No. 2 to No. 8 after falling to an unranked (now No. 14) N.C. State team Sunday, 92-81. Iowa moved up from No. 3 after defeating then-No. 8 (now 9) Virginia Tech 80-76.
At the start of the season, South Carolina’s schedule included 11 games against ranked opponents in either the AP or USA Today Top 25 poll — tied for the most among ranked teams. Six of the Gamecocks future opponents are ranked in this week’s AP poll: Utah (4), LSU (7), UConn (8), Tennessee (15), North Carolina (17) and Ole Miss (23). Prior to this year, the Gamecocks spent 38 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the poll, becoming the third program to go back-to-back and wire-to-wire as the top team.
AP Top 25
First-place votes in parenthesis
- 1. South Carolina (23)
- 2. Iowa (13)
- 3. UCLA
- 4. Utah
- 5. Colorado
- 6. Stanford
- 7. LSU
- 8. UConn
- 9. Virginia Tech
- 10. Southern Cal
- 11. Texas
- 12. FSU
- 13. Ohio State
- 14. NC State
- 15. Tennessee
- 16. Notre Dame
- 17. UNC
- 18. Indiana
- 19. Louisville
- 20. Maryland
- 21. Baylor
- 22. Creighton
- 23. Ole Miss
- 24. Washington State
- 25. Oklahoma
Others receiving votes: Mississippi St. 51, Kansas St 31, Kansas 15, Texas A&M 10, Duke 7, Marquette 4, Miami 3, UNLV 2, Illinois 1, Drake 1, Arizona 1.
Next South Carolina women’s basketball game
Who: No. 1 South Carolina vs. Clemson
When: Thursday, 7 p.m.
Where: Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C.
Stream: SEC Network
This story was originally published November 13, 2023 at 12:02 PM.
