Doug Feinberg
Associated Press
Stanford coach Tara Vandelbier shared the lead with the late Pat Summitt in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll for the most appearances in history.
VanDerveer’s Cardinals stayed in second place behind top-ranked South Carolina on Monday, spending a week with one of the AP Top 25 teams. When she was in charge of that program, she spent 592 weeks at Stanford and 27 weeks at Ohio State, her 618 weeks at Summitt in the polls were all from Tennessee.
Hall of Fame coaches downplayed the achievement.
“I’m lucky to be here for 36 years. We’ve had great players and had success,” Vanderbier said. “I don’t pay attention[to the record]. When people bring it up, I’m like, ‘OK, great.'”
Louisville has been out of the top 25 for 127 weeks for the first time since 2016. This was his fifth longest active streak. The Cardinals (5-4) started the season in seventh place and have struggled to find consistency this year, dropping their final two games to Ohio and Central Tennessee.
They are the third preseason top 10 team to fall out of the ballot, joining Texas (this week) and Tennessee (last week). After 1994-95 when the AP Top 25 was voted on by reporters, only 10 of the preseason top 10 teams were out of the rankings until this year.
Even more unusual is the dropout of the top five preseason schools. He had only five teams do it earlier this year, and none until January. Tennessee did it last, falling out of the rankings on February 22 after starting the 2015-16 season in his No. 4 spot.
Both Texas and Tennessee are now out before New Years.
“There are two factors at play here. One of them is being on par with more good teams,” said Rebecca, former UConn star, ESPN analyst, and top 25 voter. says Lobo. “Another factor is the transfer portal. I think all three of these teams have multiple players who weren’t in the program a year ago. What do you expect from them as soon as you get the teams together? It reflects that we can’t… I think all these teams will be on the ballot by the end of the season.”
Ohio moved up to No. 3, the Buckeyes’ highest ranking since November 30, 2009. Indiana and Notre Dame round out the top five.
UConn dropped three spots to No. 6, while Virginia Tech moved to No. 7, the highest ranking for any school. North Carolina and North Carolina tied for her for eighth, and Iowa for tenth.
Ranked Razorback
Arkansas (10-0) entered the poll in 21st place. The Razorbacks are having a difficult month with a game against No. 18 Clayton and a tournament in San Diego that includes Oregon, South Florida and Ohio.
“I think we know a lot about our team.
He was also pleased that his team took the vote, as all the sports teams that played on campus this year were ranked, including soccer, men’s basketball, soccer, and cross-country.
“We didn’t want to be the team that stopped that streak.
Falling Louisville
The Cardinals have been ranked every week since January 11, 2016. That was the same season they started the year in 8th place before dropping out on November 30th. It wasn’t until last week that the top 10 teams dropped out of the ballot. Things got better in Louisville as the Cardinals finished that regular season 24-6 and went 15-1 in the ACC.
historic week
With Louisville, Texas and Tennessee in the top 25, it’s only the second time in the poll’s history that those three teams didn’t make the list. The only other time was the 1976 first-ever poll.
come and go
Oklahoma and Kansas also returned to the top 25 this week, coming in at 23rd and 24th. Marquette dropped out after losing to Seton Hall.
Related news top 25
1 South Carolina (8-0)
2 Stanford (10-1)
3 Ohio (8-0)
4 Indiana (9-0)
5 Notre Dame (7-1)
6 U-Con (6-1)
7 Virginia Tech (8-0)
8 North Carolina (6-1)
8 North Carolina (7-1)
10 Iowa (6-1)
11 LSUs (9-0)
12 Arizona (7-0)
13 UCLA (8-1)
14 Michigan (9-0)
15 Utah (7-0)
16 Iowa (6-3)
17 Oregon (6-1)
18 Clayton (7-1)
19 Balor (6-2)
20 Maryland (7-3)
21 Arkansas (10-0)
22 Gonzaga (7-2)
23 Oklahoma (7-1)
24 Kansas (8-1)
25 Villanova (7-2)
Other Votes: Kansas 37th, Marquette 30th, Louisville 28th, Texas 17th, St. Johns 14th, South Florida 12th, Miami, Florida 12th, Virginia 8th, Duke 5th, Florida State 4th, Rice 4th, Purdue 3rd, Nebraska 2nd Missouri 2, Seton Hall 1, Middle Tennessee 1
