12/15 Women’s Basketball Top 25 Rankings
December 16, 2013 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
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Connecticut | The Huskies have two more huge games this week. They play Duke on Tuesday and Cal on Sunday. | 1 |
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Notre Dame | Notre Dame went to Ann Arbor and came away with a 86-64 win thanks to Jewell Loyd and Natalie Achonwa. | 2 |
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Duke | Duke has had plenty of time to prepare for their contest with Connecticut. A #1 ranking is at stake. | 3 |
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Tennessee | The Lady Vols dropped 103 points on Troy. A trip to Stanford on Saturday will prove to be more difficult. | 4 |
| 5 |  |
Kentucky | With wins earlier this month over Louisville and Baylor, Kentucky can make a big push if they can beat Duke. | 5 |
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Stanford | Stanford beat up on Gonzaga Saturday and host Tennessee this weekend in what should be a great contest. | 6 |
| 7 |  |
Maryland | Alyssa Thomas had a triple-double against Siena. She only managed a double-double versus Delaware State. | 7 |
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Louisville | Shoni Schimmel continues to carry the load for Louisville. The big one this week is against Colorado. | 8 |
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Oklahoma State | OSU’s potent offenses faces off against the tough defense of Michigan State to start the Puerto Rico Classic. | 9 |
| 10 |  |
North Carolina | The Tar Heels appear to be back on track after their tough overtime loss to Arizona State. | 10 |
| 11 |  |
Colorado | Colorado is the last remaining undefeated team in the Pac-12. That could end with a trip to Louisville on Saturday. | 11 |
| 12 |  |
LSU | LSU continues to sneak past inferior teams. The good news is they can do enough to win, but it might catch up to them. | 12 |
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Baylor | Odyssey Sims scored 25 of Baylor’s 100 points in their blowout win over Houston Baptist. | 13 |
| 14 |  |
Iowa State | Like the men’s team, Iowa State women’s squad beat rival Iowa last week. Now they get a long break. | 14 |
| 15 |  |
South Carolina | The Gamecocks have some decent wins so far this season, but they can get a big one against North Carolina. | 15 |
| 16 |  |
Penn State | The Lady Lions lost at South Dakota State, but followed it up with a nice home victory over Texas A&M. | 16 |
| 17 |  |
Nebraska | Nebraska shut down Creighton’s offense on Saturday. This week they hope to do the same to South Dakota. | 20 |
| 18 |  |
Oklahoma | The Sooners are hitting the road this week to play Fairfield and Marist. It’s only the second time they leave Oklahoma. | 23 |
| 19 |  |
Georgia | Georgia is off to a 10-0 start. They should be able to make it 12 this week against Lipscomb and Rutgers. | 22 |
| 20 |  |
California | Cal once again failed to put away a team they should handle easily. Uconn could make easy work of them this week. | 17 |
| 21 |  |
Purdue | Purdue won another tough road game last week…this time at Kansas. It continues in Green Bay on Wednesday. | 25 |
| 22 |  |
Florida State | Florida State will get back in action this week with games against North Florida and Pacific. | 24 |
| 23 |  |
Syracuse | The Orange have a full week coming up, hosting Temple, Niagara and St. Joe’s. | NR |
| 24 |  |
Arizona State | Arizona State has played well so far this year and they have another opportunity for a big win against Miami. | NR |
| 25 |  |
Iowa | The Hawkeyes fell to rival Iowa State, but still have had a great non-conference run so far. | 18 |
