UConn heads into the postseason undefeated and remains the consensus No. 1 pick in the Associated Press Women’s Basketball Top 25.
The Huskies, who have won 47 straight games, are 31-0 this season after defeating St. John’s at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. It is the 11th time they have headed to the conference tournament undefeated.
They received all 31 first-place votes in Monday’s poll from a national media panel.
The top nine teams remain unchanged this week with UCLA, South Carolina and Texas following the Huskies. It was then followed by Vanderbilt, LSU, Oklahoma, Michigan and Iowa.
TCU replaced Louisville in the top 10 after the Cardinals’ loss at Notre Dame on Sunday.
North Carolina State made the biggest jump, moving up five spots after beating Duke on Sunday. The Tar Heels have won four straight.
In and out
Fairfield entered the poll at No. 25 for the second time in three seasons. The Stags are 25-4 this season and tied with Quinnipiac atop the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference standings. They were seeded for three weeks in March at the end of the 2023-24 season. Alabama, which has dropped five of its past six games, has fallen out of the rankings.
Mr. Conference
The SEC has the most teams in the Top 25 with eight. The Big Ten is next with seven. The Big 12 has four teams, the Atlantic Coast Conference has three, and the Ivy League, MAAC and Big East each have one.
Games of the week
The Power Four conference tournaments begin with several potential Top 25 matchups in the Big Ten and SEC. If the seeding holds, No. 5 Vanderbilt will face No. 4 seed Texas in the semifinals with a possible No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament at stake. Texas ranked fourth and Vanderbilt fifth in the NCAA’s Top 16 on Sunday.
