| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  | Connecticut | The Huskies survived their toughest AAC game of the year, beating USF 75-59. Average AAC margin of victory: 44. | 1 |
| 2 |  | South Carolina | With wins over Vanderbilt and Mizzou, South Carolina is now 15-0 on the year. Kentucky and TAMU will be interesting. | 2 |
| 3 |  | Notre Dame | The Irish crushed Virginia and North Carolina, earning wins #799 and 800 for Coach Muffet McGraw. | 3 |
| 4 |  | Texas | Texas cruised past Iowa State and Okie State to move to 3-0 in Big 12 play. KU and Baylor are up this week. | 4 |
| 5 |  | Ohio State | Ohio State continues to roll after their big win at Maryland. They took care of IU and Rutgers with little trouble. | 5 |
| 6 |  | Baylor | After that loss to Oklahoma State, Baylor is looking like Baylor again. A trip to Texas on Sunday will be fun. | 6 |
| 7 |  | Mississippi State | MSU picked up a couple more SEC wins against Auburn and Alabama. Their lone game this week is at Mizzou. | 7 |
| 8 |  | Kentucky | Kentucky has a big game on Thursday night when South Carolina comes to Lexington. | 9 |
| 9 |  | Maryland | Maryland picked up a couple nice wins against Nebraska and Iowa. This week they head to Ann Arbor and host NW. | 10 |
| 10 |  | Arizona State | After beating Stanford, Washington and Washington State, Arizona State had a huge week. | 14 |
| 11 |  | Oregon State | The Beavers got the double over the Ducks, holding them to just 78 points in the two contests. | 11 |
| 12 |  | Oklahoma | It wasn't the toughest week OU will have in the Big 12, but they handled TCU and Kansas State. | 15 |
| 13 |  | Tennessee | The Lady Vols lost for the third time at home this season, this time against Florida. They beat Auburn at least. | 8 |
| 14 |  | Stanford | Stanford was stifled by Arizona State on Monday, but looked much better against Utah and Colorado. | 13 |
| 15 |  | Texas A&M | Texas A&M were upset at Arkansas and got off to a terrible start at LSU, but rallied in the second half to beat the Tigers. | 12 |
| 16 |  | Florida State | Florida State got back on track last week with wins over Boston College and GT. Up next are Clemson and Pitt. | 18 |
| 17 |  | Michigan State | With victories over Penn State and Northwestern, Michigan State is 3-1 in the Big Ten and looking like a contender. | NR |
| 18 |  | Miami | There are not a lot of big wins on the schedule, but this is a good Miami team that dominated Pitt and Clemson. | NR |
| 19 |  | Duke | Duke got Louisville at the wrong time. A few weeks ago they could have gone to Louisville and won, but not on Sunday. | 20 |
| 20 |  | Missouri | There was a 83-58 loss at South Carolina in there, but Mizzou deserves a lot of credit for going to UGA and winning. | 23 |
| 21 |  | Syracuse | Normally losing in Chapel Hill isn't a bad thing, but that was a bad loss for Syracuse. They did manage to beat VT though. | 16 |
| 22 |  | St. John's | It took overtime to beat Marquette, but St. John's followed it up with a quality home over Seton Hall. | NR |
| 23 |  | UCLA | The Bruins mini winning streak came to an end at the hands of USC. This week they head to Washington. | 21 |
| 24 |  | Northwestern | After losing three of four, Northwestern is reeling right now. And they need to right the ship against OSU and Maryland. | 17 |
| 25 |  | USC | The Trojans beat Oregon on Monday and followed it up with a nice win over UCLA on Sunday. | NR |
1/10 Women's Basketball Top 25 Rankings
Sun, 01/10/2016
