South Carolina Still #1 in The AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll

(AP) — South Carolina remains the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll despite its first loss of the season. The Gamecocks fell to Missouri 70-69 in overtime Thursday on a last-second shot. South Carolina still received 22 of the 30 first-place votes from a national media panel to stay the top choice in the poll. It isn’t the first time that a team lost and remained No. 1. Back when Louisiana Tech was a powerhouse in the early 1980s, the Lady Techsters saw their 54-game winning streak snapped by Old Dominion. Louisiana Tech stayed No. 1 the next week. Stanford remained in second place this week. Louisville, Arizona and North Carolina State rounded out the first five. Oklahoma jumped in at No. 23. The Sooners are ranked for the first time since 2017.

	Record	Pts	Prv
1. South Carolina (22)	13-1	737	1
2. Stanford	9-3	694	2
3. Louisville (5)	12-1	691	3
4. Arizona (3)	10-0	660	4
5. NC State	12-2	636	5
6. Indiana	11-2	578	8
7. Tennessee	13-1	571	7
8. Michigan	12-1	540	9
9. Texas	10-1	483	12
10. Maryland	10-4	478	6
11. UConn	6-3	462	11
12. Iowa St.	12-1	429	14
13. LSU	14-1	365	19
14. Baylor	10-3	355	10
15. Georgia	12-2	318	13
16. Georgia Tech	10-3	287	16
17. Duke	10-2	232	15
18. BYU	10-1	183	18
19. North Carolina	13-0	162	24
20. Notre Dame	11-3	130	17
21. Kentucky	7-3	122	20
22. Iowa	7-3	119	21
23. Oklahoma	12-1	118	-
24. South Florida	10-4	92	22
25. Texas A&M	10-3	58	23

Others receiving votes: Missouri 53, Colorado 53, Florida Gulf Coast 46, Kansas St 27, Ohio St. 24, DePaul 19, Missouri St. 10, Mississippi 7, Virginia Tech 6, Nebraska 5.