2/18 Women’s Basketball Top 25 Rankings
February 18, 2013 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
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Baylor | The women’s basketball game of the year takes place on Monday night when Baylor heads to Connecticut. | 1 |
| 2 |  |
Notre Dame | Notre Dame had no trouble knocking off Louisville and Marquette. The lone game this week is a trip to DePaul. | 2 |
| 3 |  |
Connecticut | The Huskies beat Providence and Rutgers, but everybody is looking ahead to Monday’s game against Baylor. | 3 |
| 4 |  |
Stanford | The Cardinal went to Westwood and came away with yet another quality victory over UCLA. | 4 |
| 5 |  |
California | Cal went to Southern California and, like Stanford, came away with two wins. However, USC proved to be tough. | 5 |
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Duke | Chelsea Gray’s knee injury will be the talk of Tobacco Road, but Duke has FSU and Maryland coming up this week. | 6 |
| 7 |  |
Maryland | With easy wins over Clemson and UVA, all eyes are turning to the big game against Duke this weekend. | 7 |
| 8 |  |
Texas A&M | The Aggies have a busy week coming up and it starts with a huge game against Kentucky on Monday night. | 8 |
| 9 |  |
Penn State | Penn State hosts Illinois and Michigan, two teams looking for another big win, this week. | 9 |
| 10 |  |
Tennessee | Tennessee’s offense had a good week. This week they host Auburn before facing a hungry Arkansas squad. | 10 |
| 11 |  |
Kentucky | Kentucky got a quality win over South Carolina, but now a three game road trip starts in College Station. | 11 |
| 12 |  |
Georgia | The Bulldogs schedule is very manageable from here on out and they could sneak into the top three in the SEC. | 13 |
| 13 |  |
Louisville | Louisville could not compete with Notre Dame, but they followed it up with a strong win over DePaul. | 12 |
| 14 |  |
Dayton | Dayton took a week off, but have three games this week, beginning on Monday against a good Duquesne team. | 14 |
| 15 |  |
South Carolina | It was a tough loss at Kentucky for South Carolina, but that is never an easy place to play. | 16 |
| 16 |  |
Syracuse | The Orange added a couple easy wins last week. Rutgers and South Florida should be a bit tougher. | 20 |
| 17 |  |
North Carolina | The Tar Heels virtually played their way out of the ACC title picture with a loss to Florida State on Sunday. | 15 |
| 18 |  |
Delaware | The best chance to put an L in the loss column for Delaware is likely on Sunday against James Madison. | 19 |
| 19 |  |
UCLA | The Bruins could not get the job done at home against Stanford or Cal, but that is not too surprising. | 17 |
| 20 |  |
Colorado | It may have been a bit close for comfort, but Colorado came away from Arizona with two road wins. | 24 |
| 21 |  |
Nebraska | Nebraska snuck past Iowa for a quality road win and held OSU to a mere 39 points. They head to Michigan now. | 22 |
| 22 |  |
Michigan | Michigan is making noise in the Big Ten after following up their win over Purdue, with a victory over rival MSU. | NR |
| 23 |  |
Florida State | Following a disappointing loss to NC State, the Seminoles played great in a 80-73 win over North Carolina. | 23 |
| 24 |  |
Purdue | Purdue lost their third game in four tries, the latest coming at home against Iowa. Two road games may be tough. | 18 |
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Oklahoma State | The Cowgirls are back above .500 in conference play after beating West Virginia and Kansas State. | NR |
