2/27 Women’s Basketball Top 25 Rankings
February 27, 2017 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
Connecticut | Four straight AAC titles for the Huskies as they destroyed Temple and Memphis to improve to 28-0 on the season. | 1 |
| 2 |  |
Baylor | Bears win their rematch with Texas. Kim Mulkey wins her 500th game and ruins it with ridiculous comments afterwards. | 4 |
| 3 |  |
Notre Dame | Notre Dame makes a significant statement in the race for a number one seed by beating Florida State 79-61. | 5 |
| 4 |  |
South Carolina | Excellent road win at Texas A&M for South Carolina and they topped the week off with their fourth straight SEC title. | 7 |
| 5 |  |
Ohio State | Ohio State torches Maryland for 98 points in the game of the year in the Big Ten Conference. | 9 |
| 6 |  |
Oregon State | Oregon State sweeps the Bay Area schools in front of a raucous Gil Coliseum to win another Pac-12 title. | 12 |
| 7 |  |
Maryland | Maryland falls at Ohio State as the Buckeyes were lights out shooting the basketball at 63.2 percent from the floor. | 2 |
| 8 |  |
Mississippi State | Bulldogs drop a tough one at Kentucky and played off the one seed line with an 82-64 loss to Tennessee. | 3 |
| 9 |  |
Stanford | Cardinal could not get anything going offensively in a 50-47 loss to OSU in Corvallis but recovered to beat Oregon. | 10 |
| 10 |  |
Washington | Kelsey Plum sets the all-time NCAA women’s hoops scoring record on Saturday with a 57 point masterpiece vs. Utah. | 13 |
| 11 |  |
Florida State | Seminoles will be the number two seed in the ACC Tournament after falling at Notre Dame 79-61. | 8 |
| 12 |  |
Louisville | Louisville is on a nice roll defensively as the ACC Tournament approaches next week. | 11 |
| 13 |  |
Duke | Duke crushes North Carolina and is in great position to be a very high seed in the NCAA Tournament. | 14 |
| 14 |  |
Texas | Texas drops two hard fought games at home against Baylor and Iowa State this week as they have lost three in a row. | 6 |
| 15 |  |
Oklahoma | Sooners grind out a split on the road this week as they lost to Kansas State and beat TCU to get to 13 Big 12 wins. | 15 |
| 16 |  |
Kentucky | Big time result for the Wildcats to knock off Miss. State on Thursday night and will be the 4 seed in the SEC Tourney. | 19 |
| 17 |  |
UCLA | The Bruins rip Arizona 77-56 on Friday night and grind out a defensive slugfest at Arizona State on Sunday. | 17 |
| 18 |  |
DePaul | Blue Demons pound Villanova 77-50 and hold off Georgetown to secure a share of the Big East Championship. | 16 |
| 19 |  |
Miami (FL) | Miami was relentless on the boards in a win at Virginia Tech and the seniors were huge on Sunday to finish the week 2-0. | 18 |
| 20 |  |
North Carolina State | Wolfpack rip North Carolina 80-60 on senior night and lock down a tough Virginia team on Sunday to sweep the week. | 20 |
| 21 |  |
Drake | The Bulldogs lock down the MVC regular season title after beating Northern Iowa soundly 70-57. | 21 |
| 22 |  |
Syracuse | Orange crushes Wake Forest 85-64 and pick up a solid road win at Pittsburgh for some extra momentum. | 22 |
| 23 |  |
Temple | Temple had a rough night at Connecticut, but recovered nicely to destroy Cincinnati on Saturday. | 23 |
| 24 |  |
Tennessee | Tennessee is on a nice roll with three straight wins, including a dominating victory at Miss. State on Sunday. | NR |
| 25 |  |
Creighton | Blue Jays claim a share of the Big East Championship as they cruised past Butler to finish 16-2 in league play. | NR |
