Baylor and Southern California jump into top 10 of women's AP Top 25, UConn and South Carolina 1-2

Baylor and Southern California person jumped into the apical 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 women's hoops poll

Baylor and Soutbern California jumped into the apical 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 women's hoops poll aft large opening week victories.

The Bears began the play with a triumph successful Paris over then-No. 7 Duke to regenerate the Blue Devils successful that spot Monday, climbing 9 places. The Trojans edged then-No. 9 N.C. State by a constituent Sunday to determination up 10 spots to eighth overall.

While USC volition beryllium missing prima JuJu Watkins each play arsenic she recovers from an ACL teardrop suffered past March, manager Lindsay Gottlieb's squad has a caller young prima successful Jazzy Davidson, who deed the go-ahead changeable with 8.2 seconds left.

UConn, South, Carolina, UCLA and Texas remained the apical 4 teams successful the canvass aft comparatively casual opening week wins. The defending champion Huskies received 30 first-place votes from a nationalist media sheet portion the Gamecocks got the different two.

LSU and Oklahoma stayed astatine 5th and six. The Sooners mislaid 73-59 to UCLA connected Monday nighttime successful Sacramento, California, a tract of 1 of the NCAA regionals adjacent spring.

Maryland moved up 1 spot to ninth. N.C. State, which too falling to USC bushed Tennessee by 3 points successful the opener, dropped to 10th. The Lady Vols fell to 12th and the Blue Devils 15th.

No. 25 Washington entered the Top 25 for the archetypal clip successful 2 years. The Huskies routed Montana 87-56 connected Monday night. Richmond dropped retired of the canvass aft losing astatine Texas.

UConn unveiled its 12th title banner connected Sunday erstwhile the Huskies bushed Florida State. The squad took to the tribunal earlier the crippled wearing customized white-and-gold tracksuits that work “National Champions XII” connected the back.

The women's basketballl canvass celebrates its 50th anniversary this period with the archetypal rankings coming retired successful precocious November 1976. Founded by Mel Greenberg, the canvass was a coaches' canvass until 1994-95 erstwhile it became 1 voted connected by nationalist media.

No. 2 South Carolina astatine No. 9 USC, Saturday. The Gamecocks volition caput westbound to look the Trojans successful a home-and-home bid dubbed “The Real SC”. Saturday's crippled volition beryllium played astatine Crypto.com Arena and adjacent year's crippled volition beryllium played successful Greenville, South Carolina.

No. 17 TCU astatine No. 10 N.C. State, Sunday. The Wolfpack proceed their hard non-conference docket facing the Horned Frogs, who added transportation Olivia Miles from Notre Dame this offseason.

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