2/17 Women’s Basketball Top 25 Rankings
February 17, 2020 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
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South Carolina | South Carolina made another big time statement on Monday night as they beat UConn 70-52 and then beat Auburn on Thursday night. | 1 |
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Oregon | Ducks pick up a sweep down at the LA schools as they beat UCLA 80-66 in a battle of top ten teams and then beat USC 93-67. | 2 |
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Baylor | Baylor keeps on rolling as they cruised past TCU, 81-62, and Oklahoma State, 69-42, to improve to 23-1 on the year. | 3 |
| 4 |  |
Louisville | Jazmine Jones scored 19 points as Louisville was outstanding defensively in a 66-59 win at NC State last Thursday night. | 15 |
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Stanford | Kiana Williams’ buzzer beater on Sunday gave Stanford a 69-66 win over Colorado to wrap up a sweep of the Rocky Mountain schools. | 8 |
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Connecticut | Olivia Nelson-Ododa scored 20 points to lead UConn to a 67-47 win over USF to bounce back from a tough loss at South Carolina. | 6 |
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Maryland | Stephanie Jones tallied 21 points and 11 rebounds to lead Maryland to a 106-69 win over Penn State to wrap up a 2-0 week. | 10 |
| 8 |  |
UCLA | UCLA lost at home 80-66 to Oregon on Friday night and will be looking to salvage a split this week against a reeling OSU team on Monday. | 7 |
| 9 |  |
Arizona | Arizona held serve at home this week as they swept the Washington schools to stay in the mix for a chance for a valuable top 16 seed. | 9 |
| 10 |  |
DePaul | DePaul clinched a share of the Big East regular season title as they blew out Xavier 97-65 on Sunday afternoon. | 11 |
| 11 |  |
Mississippi State | Jessika Carter scored 18 points but it was not enough as the Bulldogs lost at Kentucky 73-62 on Sunday. | 5 |
| 12 |  |
NC State | A rough week for the Wolfpack as they lost at home to Louisville and Georgia Tech and they didn’t get enough done offensively. | 4 |
| 13 |  |
Kentucky | Rhyne Howard led Kentucky with 26 points as they started fast against Mississippi State and rolled to a 73-62 win over the Bulldogs. | 19 |
| 14 |  |
Gonzaga | Jenn Wirth’s fifth double-double of the season propelled Gonzaga to a 53-46 win over Santa Clara, clinching a share of the WCC regular season title. | 14 |
| 15 |  |
South Dakota | South Dakota was tested a little bit on Saturday at Oral Roberts but got the job done in a 77-73 win to extend their winning streak to 13. | 16 |
| 16 |  |
Oregon State | Beavers dropped a tough game at USC and they are in danger of having to travel during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. | 12 |
| 17 |  |
Northwestern | Veronica Burton’s 21 points gave Northwestern just enough to beat Nebraska 60-58 on Sunday. | 18 |
| 18 |  |
Florida State | Haley Gorecki’s free throws with.3.5 seconds left gave Duke a 66-64 upset win over FSU on Sunday. The Seminoles are now 20-5 overall. | 13 |
| 19 |  |
Texas A&M | Chennedy Carter hit some huge shots for Texas A&M as the Aggies went on the road to Knoxville and beat Tennessee 73-71. | 21 |
| 20 |  |
Florida Gulf Coast | Florida Gulf Coast has now won 40 straight games against conference opponents after routing Lipscomb 78-45 on Saturday. | 20 |
| 21 |  |
Iowa | Hawkeyes settle for a split this week as they lost 93-59 at Maryland and came home to beat Wisconsin 97-71. | 17 |
| 22 |  |
Arkansas | Alexis Tolefree and Chelsea Dungee combined for 37 points to lead Arkansas to a 108-64 win at Ole Miss. | 22 |
| 23 |  |
Missouri State | Missouri State avenged an earlier loss to Southern Illinois on Saturday as the routed the Salukis 88-57 and are now 11-0 at home. | 23 |
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Princeton | Carlie Littlefield and Bella Alarie led a balanced attack for Princeton as they blew out Brown 85-48 on Saturday. | 24 |
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Arizona State | Sun Devils get back on track this week with a pair of hard fought wins over the Washington schools to improve to 18-8 on the year. | NR |
