UConn Remains Ranked 3rd In Women’s Basketball Poll

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By The Associated Press

Baylor remains No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll for a third straight week after two easy victories.

The Lady Bears cruised to wins over Kansas State and West Virginia and have 28 straight Big 12 regular-season victories. Baylor had 35 first-place ballots.

The Lady Bears will face No. 24 Iowa State and 20th-ranked Oklahoma this week.

Notre Dame, UConn, Duke and Kentucky round out the first five. The Blue Devils, the last unbeaten team in Division I basketball, visit the Huskies on Monday night.

The Wildcats are followed by Stanford, California, Penn State, Tennessee and Maryland. None of the Top 10 teams changed as they went 18-0, winning by an average of 22.5 points.

Michigan State entered the poll at No. 25 while Kansas fell out.

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 Jan. 20, 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 Prv
1. Baylor (35)           16-1    992   1
2. Notre Dame            16-1    947   2
   3. UConn (2)             16-1    914   3
4. Duke (3)              16-0    907   4
5. Kentucky              17-1    819   5
6. Stanford              16-2    799   6
7. California            15-2    756   7
8. Penn St.              14-2    722   8
9. Tennessee             15-3    678   9
10. Maryland              14-3    634 10
11. North Carolina        18-1    614 11
12. Oklahoma St.          13-2    442 17
13. Louisville            15-4    413 15
14. Georgia               16-3    405 13
15. Purdue                15-3    387 12
16. Texas A&M             14-5    371 20
17. Dayton                15-1    343 18
18. South Carolina        16-3    341 19
19. UCLA                  13-4    315 14
20. Colorado              15-2    279 21
20. Oklahoma              15-3    279 16
22. Florida St.           15-3    227 22
23. Michigan              15-2    142 25
24. Iowa St.              13-3    125 24
25. Michigan St.          16-2     60   _
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 25, Villanova 16, Kansas 14, UTEP 8, Delaware 7, Arkansas 5, Iowa 4, Texas Tech 3, Vanderbilt 3, Nebraska 2, Green Bay 1, Miami 1.
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