
By The Associated Press
Baylor’s grip on No. 1 is becoming looser as Connecticut closes the gap.
The Lady Bears received 23 first-place votes Monday in the women’s college basketball poll by The Associated Press. No. 2 Connecticut gained two first-place votes from last week.
The Huskies had two impressive victories, routing then-No. 3 Duke by 36 points and No. 9 DePaul by 23 points. UConn has 16 first-place votes and plays at No. 17 West Virginia on Tuesday.
Baylor had two big wins of its own this week, blowing out No. 13 Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Stanford, Tennessee and Duke round out the first five.
Penn State and Marist joined the poll at No. 23 and 25. Marist has won 17 in a row. Iowa and Georgia Tech fell from the rankings.
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The Women’s Top Twenty Five
By The Associated Press
The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 6, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:
Record Pts Pvs
1. Baylor (23) 21-1 981 1
2. Connecticut (16) 22-1 973 2
3. Stanford (1) 20-2 914 4
4. Tennessee 21-2 871 5
5. Duke 21-1 825 3
6. Texas A&M 19-2 815 6
7. Xavier 19-2 763 7
8. Notre Dame 20-4 719 8
9. UCLA 19-2 666 10
10. DePaul 21-3 614 9
11. Michigan St. 29-3 565 11
12. Maryland 20-3 562 12
13. North Carolina 20-3 510 15
14. Oklahoma 17-5 472 13
15. Kentucky 18-4 442 16
16. Georgetown 19-5 403 17
17. West Virginia 20-4 325 14
18. Wis.-Green Bay 22-1 296 21
19. Florida St. 18-5 273 19
20. Miami 20-3 267 18
21. Marquette 19-4 173 23
22. Iowa St. 16-6 150 22
23. Penn St. 20-5 121 _
24. Georgia 18-5 107 24
25. Marist 21-2 47 _
Others receiving votes: Iowa 39, Georgia Tech 35, Gonzaga 20, Houston 18, Boston College 8, Louisiana Tech 8, Temple 8, Ohio St. 5, Kansas St. 3, Duquesne 1, Princeton 1.
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By the simple fact that we BEAT Baylor, should be reason enough to still have the #1 ranking – and shouldn’t have never dropped from there either!