Women's ballot breakdown | Geno chasing more records

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press womens college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking.

Rk., Team Rec.

Pts.

Prev.

1.

UCLA (30) 13-0 798 1 2.

South Carolina (1) 12-1 763 2 3.

Notre Dame (1) 11-2 727 3 4.

Southern Cal 12-1 693 4 5.

Texas 13-1 642 5 6.

LSU 15-0 628 6 7.

Connecticut 11-2 613 7 8.

Maryland 12-0 609 8 9.

Oklahoma 12-1 534 9 10.

Ohio State 13-0 504 10 11.

TCU 13-1 475 11 12.

Kansas State 13-1 452 12 13.

Georgia Tech 14-0 400 13 14.

Duke 10-3 357 14 15.

Tennessee 12-0 340 15 16.

Kentucky 11-1 321 16 17.

North Carolina 13-2 303 17 18.

West Virginia 10-2 233 18 19.

Alabama 13-1 207 20 20.

California 13-1 186 21 21.

Michigan State 11-2 148 19 22.

North Carolina State 10-3 137 22 23.

Iowa 11-2 116 24 24.

Michigan 10-3 82 23 25.

Mississippi 9-3 48 25 Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 26, Utah 24, Illinois 11, Oklahoma State 7, Baylor 5, Nebraska 4, Mississippi State 3, Harvard 3, Portland 1.

THE NEWS-GAZETTES TOP 25 Illinois beat writer Joe Vozzelli is in his sixth season as an AP Top 25 voter.

Heres how his eighth regular-season ballot of the 2024-25 season shook out: RK., TEAM PREV.

1.

UCLA 1 2.

South Carolina 2 3.

Notre Dame 3 4.

LSU 4 5.

Texas 5 6.

Maryland 6 7.

Southern Cal 7 8.

Connecticut 8 9.

Oklahoma 9 10.

Ohio State 10 11.

TCU 11 12.

Kansas State 12 13.

Georgia Tech 13 14.

Tennessee 14 15.

Duke 15 16.

Kentucky 16 17.

North Carolina 17 18.

West Virginia 18 19.

Alabama 19 20.

California 24 21.

Michigan State 20 22.

North Carolina State 22 23.

Iowa 23 24.

Michigan 21 25.

Illinois 25 Whos up Geno Auriemma.

The Connecticut coach is now tied with legendary Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer for the most appearances in the Top 25 at one school.

Auriemma matched that mark with Mondays 627th week in the AP rankings in the 70-year-old, 11-time NCAA champion coachs now 40 years in Storrs, Conn.

Auriemmas Huskies stayed at No.

7 in the latest AP Top 25 after UConn routed Providence 67-41 on Sunday at home.

That was the 1,224th career victory for Auriemma, who earlier this season passed VanDerveers NCAA career wins record.

Its the Huskies who continue to carry the banner for the Big East as the leagues only ranked team.

That ranks well behind the SEC (8), Big Ten (7), ACC (6) and Big 12 (3) among major conferences.

Whos down Michigan State.

The Spartans were one of only five teams to move up or down in Mondays rankings after the Top 18 remained unchanged.

A 72-66 Michigan State loss even at undefeated No.

8 Maryland on Sunday in a ranked-on-ranked matchup saw Michigan State drop two spots to No.

21.

The Spartans nearly stunned the Terrapins, rallying from a 17-point first-half deficit to tie the game in the fourth quarter before Maryland regrouped to reach 12-0 on the season.

Michigan States loss was Alabamas and Californias gain with the Crimson Tide and Golden Bears each rising one place.

Who to watch Its a big week for Oklahoma.

The Sooners have two ranked games to open up their first season in the SEC.

No.

9 Oklahoma will face longtime Red River rival in No.

5 Texas at 8 p.m.

on Thursday (ESPN2) at Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.

The second of two games against unbeaten SEC teams for the Sooners comes against No.

15 Tennessee (2 p.m., Sunday, ESPN) in Knoxville, Tenn.

Before the season started, Oklahoma was picked to finish behind defending national champion South Carolina, Texas and LSU in the leagues preseason poll..

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