Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
1 | Connecticut | Huskies take care of Cal and Maryland without much difficulty. UCLA is next on Tuesday night. | 1 | |
2 | South Carolina | Gamecocks outlast Maryland, and dominated Clemson and Wofford. | 3 | |
3 | Louisville | Cardinals add to their impressive resume with wins over Michigan and Oregon to take the Preseason WNIT title. | 5 | |
4 | Texas | The offense is in high gear for the Longhorns as they destroyed McNeese State and UTSA. | 4 | |
5 | UCLA | UCLA was very impressive in attacking a tough Baylor team on Saturday in Los Angeles. | 8 | |
6 | Notre Dame | Fighting Irish pick up two tough road wins at Western Kentucky and Oregon State. | 6 | |
7 | Baylor | Baylor split their two games this week as they ran into a bit of buzzsaw at UCLA. They'll bounce back quickly. | 2 | |
8 | Mississippi State | Mississippi State got the offense rolling in two easy wins over Georgia State and Southern Miss. | 7 | |
9 | Ohio State | Buckeyes pick up three wins this week, but they have work to do rebounding the basketball. | 9 | |
10 | Tennessee | Tennessee dominated James Madison as they scored 89 points. Marquette will be a tough test on Thanksgiving Day. | 12 | |
11 | West Virginia | Mountaineers are in a nice groove offensively as they had no problem with Sacramento State and North Florida. | 14 | |
12 | Oregon | Oregon split two tough road games at Texas A&M and Louisville. This was great prep for the postseason. | 11 | |
13 | Maryland | Maryland is going to be a work in progress, but the South Carolina and UConn losses will help them grow. | 13 | |
14 | Duke | Blue Devils split their two games as they beat High Point and were upset by a feisty Villanova team on Sunday. | 10 | |
15 | South Florida | Bulls lit up Arkansas State for 98 points as they had 22 assists out of 34 made field goals. | 15 | |
16 | Florida State | Seminoles blew past in-state rival Florida 84-54 to highlight a 2-0 week. | 17 | |
17 | Stanford | Cardinal picked up the pace defensively this week as they swept UC Riverside and Cal State Bakersfield. | 18 | |
18 | Michigan | Michigan couldn’t get anything going against an excellent Louisville team on Thursday night. | 16 | |
19 | Marquette | Marquette dropped a nail-biter at New Mexico as the Lobos shot over 50 percent from the field. | 19 | |
20 | Texas A&M | Aggies split their two games this week with Louisiana and Oregon. | 20 | |
21 | Oregon State | Beavers torched Utah Valley and gave Notre Dame all they wanted in a hard fought 72-67 loss on Sunday. | 22 | |
22 | Arizona State | ASU has some nice momentum heading into its showdown with Miss. State on Thanksgiving as they are 4-0. | 21 | |
23 | Kentucky | Wildcats take care of business while out on a tricky road trip against Montana and Washington State. | NR | |
24 | Missouri | Tigers grind out two wins over Wright State and Missouri State to improve to 3-1 on the season. | 25 | |
25 | California | Cal could not overcome a fast start by UConn, but responded well in a win over Brown. | 23 | |
11/20 Women's Basketball Top 25 Rankings
Mon, 11/20/2017