UConn women’s basketball remains No. 2 in AP Top 25 poll, Paige Bueckers named Big East Player of the Week

HARTFORD, Conn.

The UConn womens basketball team remained ranked No.

2 in the AP Top 25 poll for the fifth straight week and continued receiving first-place votes after winning the Baha Mar Womens Championship.

The Huskies earned seven of a possible 32 first-place votes entering Week 5, coming in behind No.

1 UCLA with 25.

UConn recorded its second ranked win of the season over No.

18 Ole Miss, 73-60, in the Bahamas on Wednesday, and the team also handled Oregon State 71-52 at the tournament to improve to 6-0.

UConn star Paige Bueckers was also named Big East Player of the Week for the second time this season for her performance at the Baha Mar Womens Championship.

The redshirt senior averaged 26 points, five assists, 3.5 rebounds and two steals per game across the Huskies pair of wins, shooting 66.7% from the field and 55.6% from 3-point range.

She currently has the highest field goal percentage in the country among players averaging 22 points or more.

After hosting Holy Cross at Gampel Pavilion on Tuesday (7 p.m.

ET, SNY), UConn is headed into a gauntlet of ranked opponents beginning with No.

22 Louisville on Saturday in the Womens Champions Classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The Huskies then travel to South Bend, Indiana on Dec.

12 to face Notre Dame, which dropped seven places to No.

10 after losses to both TCU and Utah in Week 4.

The Irish still have an elite ceiling with a statement win over No.

6 USC on their resume, and No.

9 TCU skyrocketed into the top 10 for the first time in program history with the upset.

Duke also made its season debut in the top 10 at No.

8 after beating No.

11 Oklahoma last week.

The Huskies will face No.

20 Iowa State at Mohegan Sun Arena in the Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase on Dec.

17, and the Cyclones have also looked less than their best over the past two weeks.

They entered the season ranked No.

8 but plummeted after a loss to Northern Iowa on Nov.

20, and No.

3 South Carolina routed them 76-36 last Thursday.

UConn then concludes its loaded slate on Dec.

21 with a sold-out home showdown against USC, a rematch from last years Elite Eight.

AP Top 25 womens basketball poll: Week 5 2024 Hartford Courant.

Visit at courant.com .

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