STORRS, Conn. — The UConn women’s basketball team jumped back into the top 10 of the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll after solid wins in the Big East.
The female Huskies took care of business last week with wins over Creighton and DePaul – the latter securing UConn’s Big East regular season title outright – and jumped from No. 15 to No. 10 in Week 17 of the AP Top 25 poll.
With three Big East games left, the Huskies are just one of two ranked teams undefeated in conference play. No. 16 Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference is also undefeated.
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A slew of upsets last week caused a lot of shakeups in the top 10.
South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 team, receiving all 35 votes from the national panel, after routing Alabama and Kentucky. The Gamecocks clinched their third consecutive outright Southeastern Conference regular-season championship and eighth in 11 years.
Ohio State was second in the poll. The Buckeyes clinched a share of the Big Ten title with their 14th consecutive win on Sunday.
Texas rose to its highest ranking in more than a year to No. 3.
Stanford was fourth after splitting a pair of home games against Arizona and Arizona State. Despite the loss to the Wildcats, the Cardinals clinched at least a share of their 27th Pac-12 regular-season championship.
Virginia Tech moved up three spots to fifth. The Hokies have won 10 consecutive games and earned at least a share of their first ACC regular-season title at 14-2.
Iowa, USC and UCLA followed the Hokies. LSU moved up four places to ninth.
It's the first time that UCLA, LSU and UConn — who were in the top five in the preseason poll — are all in the top 10 in a month.
The NCAA selection committee will reveal Thursday for the second time this year its top 16 teams to this point in the season. There has been a lot of movement amongst teams since the first reveal two weeks ago that had South Carolina, Ohio State, Stanford and Colorado as the potential No. 1 seeds.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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