South Carolina Remains atop Women's AP Top 25 Despite Loss

South Carolina is still No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll despite suffering its second loss of the season. The Gamecocks fell to Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference tournament title game, but stayed atop the poll ahead of No. 2 Stanford. South Carolina received 17 first-place votes from the 30-member national media panel. Stanford, which won the Pac-12 tournament, got 11. North Carolina State was third with Baylor and Louisville rounding out the top five teams. Central Florida entered the poll for the first time in school history, coming in at No. 25.

Record	Pts	Prv
1. South Carolina (17)	29-2	735	1
2. Stanford (11)	28-3	729	2
3. NC State (2)	29-3	696	3
4. Baylor	25-5	654	5
5. Louisville	25-4	608	4
6. UConn	24-5	601	7
7. Texas	23-6	540	9
8. Iowa	23-7	537	12
9. LSU	25-5	512	6
10. Iowa St.	25-5	484	8
11. Indiana	22-8	457	14
12. Michigan	22-6	405	10
13. Maryland	21-8	379	11
14. Ohio St.	23-6	335	13
15. BYU	25-2	282	17
16. Kentucky	19-11	231	-
17. Virginia Tech	23-9	229	21
18. North Carolina	23-6	227	16
19. Tennessee	23-8	215	18
20. Arizona	20-7	214	14
21. Oklahoma	23-7	167	19
22. Notre Dame	22-8	164	20
23. Florida Gulf Coast	27-2	130	22
24. Princeton	22-4	44	-
25. UCF	22-3	42	-

Others receiving votes: Villanova 32, Miami 24, Mississippi 22, Colorado 12, Georgia Tech 9, Georgia 7, Florida 7, Toledo 7, Nebraska 4, Kansas 3, Oregon 3, Utah 2, IUPUI 1.