Tennessee has returned to The Related Press High 25 at No. 19, ending the varsity’s longest drought within the 48-year historical past of the ladies’s basketball ballot.
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The Girl Vols had not been ranked since Nov. 27, 2023, a span of twenty-two polls. Because the rankings started in 1976, Tennessee has been within the High 25 in 779 of 870 whole weeks .
Tennessee, below first-year head coach Kim Caldwell, is off to an undefeated begin with a urgent type that features recent gamers continually coming in.
UCLA, UConn and South Carolina remained the highest three groups within the ballot launched Monday. The Bruins acquired 24 first-place votes from the 32-member nationwide media panel. UCLA beat Washington by 11 in its lone recreation final week. The Huskies garnered the opposite eight high votes after routing Louisville 85-52 within the Ladies’s Champions Basic.
LSU and USC every moved up a spot after then-No. 4 Texas misplaced to Notre Dame 80-70 in time beyond regulation. The Longhorns fell to sixth and the Irish rose two spots to eighth. Maryland was seventh. Duke and Oklahoma rounded out the primary 10, withe Sooners shifting up a spot. Climbing Spartans
Michigan State moved up seven spots to No. 17 because the Spartans are off to the very best begin in class historical past. They routed DePaul of their lone recreation final week and subsequent face No. 21 Iowa on Sunday. It is the group’s finest rating for the reason that Spartans have been fifteenth in 2019. Robyn Fralick’s squad bettered the earlier finest 8-0 begins in 2012-13 and 2020-21. Transferring out and in
Georgia Tech entered the ballot for the primary time since Feb. 28, 2022, coming in at No. 25 because the group is off to its finest begin since 1977-78. The Yellow Jackets host Louisiana-Monroe earlier than visiting No. 14 North Carolina on Sunday. N.C. State additionally returned to the ballot at No. 22 whereas Illinois, Alabama and Louisville fell out. The Cardinals have 4 losses this season, all to ranked groups . Convention breakdown
The Large Ten has eight groups within the ballot this week, down one from the earlier ballot. The Southeastern Convention has seven with the ACC and Large 12 having 5 and 4 respectively. The Large East has one. Recreation of the week
No. 2 UConn at No. 8 Notre Dame, Thursday. The 2 former Large East rivals tip off in one of the extremely anticipated video games of the season. Each groups have All-American stars in UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo. The Huskies are at full power whereas the Irish are nonetheless working by means of some accidents.
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