11/21 Women’s Basketball Top 25
November 21, 2011 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
Baylor |
Baylor stays on the top spot after Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims led the way over #2 Notre Dame. |
1 |
| 2 |  |
Notre Dame | Notre Dame had a tough task going on the road and playing Baylor. They lost, but looked pretty good. |
2 |
| 3 |  |
Connecticut |
Connecticut rolled over Pacific last week and host a big game on Tuesday night against Stanford. |
4 |
| 4 |  |
Stanford |
Stanford has been tested, but has looked very good. A win at Connecticut could move the Cardinal up the rankings. |
5 |
| 5 |  |
Texas A&M | Texas A&M has played great defense and added quite a few points while they were at it. Temple is in trouble. |
6 |
| 6 |  |
Tennessee | Tennessee lost to Virginia on Sunday, but the team may learn something. They better be quick with Baylor next. |
3 |
| 7 |  |
Duke | Duke found another scoring option in Tricia Liston, but they face their toughest competition this week. |
8 |
| 8 |  |
Georgia |
UGA got a nice win last weekend against USC and they have another good game against Georgetown this weekend. |
11 |
| 9 |  |
Maryland | Maryland is now 4-0 and that record should increase to 7-0 by the end of the week. |
15 |
| 10 |  |
Miami |
Miami was tied at Tennessee at half time before losing by 16. The Great Alaska Shootout will be another good test. |
10 |
| 11 |  |
Louisville | Louisville lost to Texas A&M last week, but that’s not a bad loss. They have a big showdown with FSU this weekend. |
7 |
| 12 |  |
Rutgers | Thanks to Khadijah Rushdan Rutgers beat La Salle on Saturday. Lehigh and Georgia Tech await this week. |
16 |
| 13 |  |
Kentucky | Kentucky is scoring a ton of points so far this season and three relatively easy games this week won’t stop that. |
17 |
| 14 |  |
Penn State |
Penn State lost to Elena Delle Donne and Delaware, but came back with a nice victory over South Carolina. |
12 |
| 15 |  |
Oklahoma | Oklahoma snuck past New Mexico, but a huge game against Ohio State is on tap this Sunday. |
18 |
| 16 |  |
North Carolina | North Carolina hasn’t played anybody good yet and they don’t this week either. They’ll leave Chapel Hill sometime. | 19 |
| 17 |  |
LSU | After beating Georgetown, LSU lost to Tulane in overtime. We’ll learn more this week about LSU’s consistency. |
14 |
| 18 |  |
Purdue | The Purdue defense has been splendid and they have enough scorers to beat nearly anybody right now. |
20 |
| 19 |  |
Delaware |
After knocking off Penn State, Elena Delle Donne and company have Delaware making noise on the national level. |
NR |
| 20 |  |
Georgetown | Georgetown has a couple tough losses already this season and it won’t get much easier this week. |
9 |
| 21 |  |
Texas | Texas is not as good as Stanford and better than cupcakes. We’ll learn more about UT this weekend in Hawaii. |
24 |
| 22 |  |
Florida State | It was not a good week for FSU, who lost twice. The early schedule is tough, so do not give up on them yet. |
13 |
| 23 |  |
Texas Tech |
Texas Tech has a couple nice wins against New Mexico and Houston and this week they host a little tournament. |
NR |
| 24 |  |
USC | USC had to play catch up all game against Georgia and couldn’t get the job done. The job is harder at Notre Dame. |
21 |
| 25 |  |
UCLA | After a couple easy wins and a blowout loss at the hands of Baylor, we will learn more about UCLA this week. |
25 |
