STORRS, Conn. — Despite booking a trip to its fourth straight Big East title game with winds over Marquette and Providence this weekend, the UConn women’s basketball team slid one spot to No. 10 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll on Monday.
The so-called slip down the ranking came because ACC Tournament Notre Dame climbed five stops to ninth.
Meanwhile, Fairfield University, who closed out the season with an 83-54 win over Rider, remained steady at No. 25 in the poll.
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The Stags broke into the AP Top 25 poll last week for the first time in school history amid a (now) 26-game win streak. Saturday night’s win over Rider completed the team’s perfect Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference record, becoming only the eighth school to do that in league history. The Stags play in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament on Wednesday.
Fairfield has the second-longest winning streak in the country at 26 in a row.
South Carolina remained a unanimous No. 1, receiving all 35 first-place votes from the AP national media panel. The Gamecocks head into the NCAA Tournament undefeated for the second consecutive season after surviving the SEC Tournament semifinals on a last-second 3-pointer by Kamilla Cardoso. The Gamecocks then beat LSU for the title in a game marred by late ejections.
Iowa moved back up to No. 2 after winning the Big Ten Tournament, rallying to beat Nebraska in overtime behind Caitlin Clark. It was the third straight conference tournament title for the Hawkeyes.
Southern California moved up to No. 3 after topping Stanford to win the conference tournament for the first time since 2014, their only other time in the title game. It's the highest ranking for USC since the final poll of the 1986 season when the team was also third.
Stanford fell two spots to fourth and Texas was fifth. UCLA, Ohio State and LSU followed the Longhorns.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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