Where South Carolina women's basketball ranks in AP Top 25 after loss to UCLA

Where South Carolina women’s basketball ranks in AP Top 25 after loss to UCLA

Posted by Admin November 25, 2024 Basketball

COLUMBIA — South Carolina women’s basketball is no longer the No. 1 team in women’s college basketball.

The Gamecocks (5-1) dropped to the No. 4 spot in the AP Top 25 poll on Monday after they fell 77-62 to then No. 5/No. 6 UCLA on Sunday evening. The Bruins (5-0) are the new No. 1 team.

Coach Dawn Staley’s team extended the winning streak to a program record 43 games on Wednesday, right before its first loss in more than 600 days. South Carolina fell to Iowa in the Final Four on March 31, 2023, and before Sunday, hadn’t lost a regular season game in more than 1,000 days.

After the 2022-23 season, the Gamecocks were No. 6 in the preseason poll, ending a 37-week long streak of being the No. 1 team. Then, a week into the 2023-24 season, after beating Notre Dame the Gamecocks were back in the No. 1 spot and stayed there for the rest of the season, and into 2024-25. Monday ended the streak.

South Carolina’s next game is against No. 15/No. 8 Iowa State on Thursday (1:30 p.m. FOX).

AP Top 25

UCLA (782 points, 20 first place votes)
UConn (760 points, nine first place votes)
Notre Dame (751 points, three first place votes)
South Carolina (688 points, no first place votes)
Texas (677 points)
Southern Cal (630 points)
LSU (593 points)
Oklahoma (572 points)
Kansas State (532 points)
Maryland (527 points)
Ohio State (462 points)
West Virginia (440 points)
Duke (360 points)
Kentucky (344 points)
Iowa State (344 points)
North Carolina (310 points)
TCU (275 points)
Ole Miss (261 points)
Illinois (183 points)
NC State (173 points)
Oregon (161 points)
Iowa (147 points)
Alabama (129 points)
Louisville (75 points)
Nebraska (58 points)

USA TODAY Coaches poll

This will be updated when the poll is released on Tuesday.

Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin