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The AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll

RecordPtsPrv
1. UConn (27)20-17471
2. Texas A&M (2)22-17033
3. NC State17-26872
4. Stanford (1)22-26724
5. Louisville21-26056
6. Baylor19-26047
7. South Carolina19-45755
8. Maryland19-25658
9. UCLA14-450010
10. Indiana16-448511
11. Arizona15-44319
12. Michigan13-336912
13. Arkansas19-736716
14. Tennessee15-632320
15. South Florida14-230413
16. Georgia18-525217
17. Kentucky16-722719
18. Gonzaga21-322421
19. Oregon13-720114
20. West Virginia18-419918
21. South Dakota St.21-216322
22. Ohio St.13-615815
23. Missouri St.18-214723
24. Rutgers12-312025
25. DePaul14-63124

Others receiving votes: Florida Gulf Coast 22, Stephen F Austin 16, Marquette 14, Oklahoma St. 9, Oregon St. 9, Iowa 6, Virginia Tech 6, Georgia Tech 5, Northwestern 4.
 
Let's see...TAMU only gets 2 first place votes... Depaul is still ranked

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LETTERL said:
That's a big point gap between Stanford and Louisville. Consensus Top 4 now? At least by the media?
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I think the recent losses have separated the top four from the next four and the following four (MD at 8 is a wide separation as well from #9 UCLA. Voters seem to have settled on the #1 seeds and the #2 seeds, and three of the four #3 seeds which leads to those large point breaks - within those groups there is a little variation but they have each separated from the following teams.
triaddukefan said:
Let's see...TAMU only gets 2 first place votes... Depaul is still ranked

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Look at the also getting votes group and find someone clearly better than Depaul at 25! Look at the drop in points between # 24 and # 25 - everyone seems to have a hard time finding a 25th to rank 89 points between 24 and 25 is the largest point game and 9 points between Depaul and #26 FGC.
 
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UcMiami said:
Look at the also getting votes group and find someone clearly better than Depaul at 25! Look at the drop in points between # 24 and # 25 - everyone seems to have a hard time finding a 25th to rank 89 points between 24 and 25 is the largest point game and 9 points between Depaul and #26 FGC.
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I know on my BY Top 25 ballot, I had three teams (Marquette, Stephen F. Austin and Central Florida) with strong consideration for the #25 position, and I had to spend a lot of time reviewing the resume for each of those teams before settling on Marquette for #25 this week.

I haven't had Depaul ranked on my last three BY Top 25 ballots.
 
big gap between 24 & 25, which suggests voters are having a hard time finding a 25th team as well
 
UcMiami said:
Look at the also getting votes group and find someone clearly better than Depaul at 25! Look at the drop in points between # 24 and # 25 - everyone seems to have a hard time finding a 25th to rank 89 points between 24 and 25 is the largest point game and 9 points between Depaul and #26 FGC.
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I would have ranked Marquette over Depaul
 
Vowelguy said:
big gap between 24 & 25, which suggests voters are having a hard time finding a 25th team as well
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FGCU, Marquette, Stephen F Austin, and Oregon State I'd put in the 25th spot over DePaul. I'm surprised they're still there.

Also think Maryland should be ranked #5 ahead of SC/Louisville/Baylor. They have the best wins out of those 3 teams with the least egregious losses besides maybe SC, but SC has 4 losses.
 
Why is everyone so high on FGCU? They haven't beaten anyone of note and got blown out by Missouri State and lost to Arkansas in their only games against ranked teams.
 
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Still no love for Oregon State? They are definitely a sleeper team going in to the Pac tourney, as is Arkansas in the SEC.
 
I'd give Texas A&M the #1 spot. Two more wins with the same number of losses as UConn, plus they play in a way tougher league.
 
LETTERL said:
Why is everyone so high on FGCU? They haven't beaten anyone of note and got blown out by Missouri State and lost to Arkansas in their only games against ranked teams.
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Whoever is ranked #25 usually has a pretty flawed resume. Their schedule is trash but they are 21-2 and nearly beat Arkansas. Id put Oregon State in over them but I think they deserve a spot ahead of Depaul.
 
Not sure why anyone is so high on Marquette - the only ranked teams they have played are Uconn and DePaul and they split with DePaul, and bad losses to Milwaukee and Seton Hall. DePaul meanwhile played TA&M to a two point loss, lost to Louisville and beat Kentucky, and their only bad loss was to Creighton

OSU is starting to click with two very good wins this past week against UCLA and Oregon to go against their bad losses to Utah and 2 to WSU - until this week they had no good wins and at 7/6 in league and 9/6 overall it hasn't been an impressive season - their OOC even before the canceled games was a joke.
 
Well DePaul is certainly not making a case for themselves today. Locked in a battle late in Q3 w/ 2-16 Butler. Yikes. All tied up at the moment.
 
UcMiami said:
to go against their bad losses to Utah and 2 to WSU
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WSU is not a bad loss this season. Fading late, but they've been competitive all year. They also beat UCLA and Arizona.
 
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hoopsfan22 said:
I'd give Texas A&M the #1 spot. Two more wins with the same number of losses as UConn, plus they play in a way tougher league.
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The history of the AP poll shows that the team ranked #1 stays #1 until they lose. All they look at is who wins and who loses, and that is the only criteria. I think most of them don't even watch the games, only the scores every morning.
 
What has happened to DePaul, do they have a key player injured or did they have a break due to COVID? They just aren't the same as they were a month ago.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Oh boy DePaul. They lost to Butler. Pick any of the "others receiving votes" and put them at #25 ahead of DePaul now.
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Or maybe Butler needs to be in the top 25!
 
LETTERL said:
Why is everyone so high on FGCU? They haven't beaten anyone of note and got blown out by Missouri State and lost to Arkansas in their only games against ranked teams.
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Both of those losses were without Kierstan Bell -- who, miraculously, didn't get her waiver until the morning after the Arkansas game.

Speaking of which, FGCU led a full-strength Arkansas for most of the game even without their all-everything player.
 
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One reason DePaul is still hanging around in the polls must have something to do with their 4 quality losses ;) ; #3 TA&M; #5 Louisville (...yeah I know many don't believe in Lou to begin with), #4 UConn and #3 UConn again...and their one quality win #9 UK (shouldn't this UK loss to DePaul also been a bad loss for them?)...but unlike UK when they lose they don't move up in the polls. Trend for DePaul is downward and will probably be out in todays Coaches Poll. :rolleyes:
 
triaddukefan said:
I would have ranked Marquette over Depaul
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Don't be surprised when the Coaches pick Marquette for the #25 spot later today...unless they can squeeze in another SEC team in that slot. :p
 
nwhoopfan said:
Yeah, at 3-16 Butler is definitely a team on the rise!
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Actually, now that they have a full roster and have been able to practice, they are much better than their record. They could pull an upset in round 1 of the BET. Over the past 1-2 weeks, their level of play has been at about the middle of the conference. Watch the 2nd UConn game and DePaul game. They don't at all resemble the injury plagued team that UConn beat by nearly 70 in January. I'm not saying they are good, but their level of play is more like that of an 8-8 team than a 3-16 team. Weird!
 
Northwestern at 25 in the Coaches' poll.

DePaul now 27.

Marquette now 29.

Seton Hall at 38.
 
I was looking at Southern Floridas schedule and it led me to wonder why they are ranked #15. I assume they are an example of a team that gets an undeserved push up by beating an over ranked team early. They beat a then #6 ranked Miss St who since then has dropped like a rock. That other than an early 5 pt loss to Baylor when Baylor was also struggling. They have a 29 pt blow out losss to Huston and are still ranked at #15.
 
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