Iowa, Colorado behind No. 1 South Carolina in ladies’s AP Prime 25

Iowa moved as much as No. 2 and Colorado to No. 3 behind top-ranked South Carolina in The Related Press Prime 25 ladies’s basketball ballot after a chaotic week that noticed half of the highest 10 groups lose.

The Gamecocks (15-0), who’re the final unbeaten group left, routed Missouri of their lone recreation final week and obtained all 36 first-place votes from the nationwide media panel in Monday’s ballot launched hours earlier than South Carolina hosted Kentucky.

Beforehand undefeated UCLA and Baylor each misplaced and fell within the rankings. The Bruins dropped from second to fifth and the Bears plummeted from fourth to twelfth after dropping to each Kansas and Iowa State. The Cyclones entered the ballot at No. 24.

Caitlin Clark and Iowa moved as much as second after routing then-No. 14 Indiana on Saturday night time. Colorado and NC State adopted the Hawkeyes. The Buffaloes are 15-1 for the primary time for the reason that 1992-93 season.

USC moved as much as sixth after handing the Bruins their first lack of the season.

Kansas State shot up 5 spots to seventh, the Wildcats’ greatest rating since they have been fifth within the preseason ballot in 2003. Stanford and UConn have been subsequent, with the Huskies transferring up 4 spots to return to the highest 10 at No. 9. Defending champion LSU noticed its nation’s greatest 16-game profitable streak finish with a loss at Auburn and fell three spots to tenth.

West Virginia dropped out of the ballot after dropping to Iowa State.

APPROACHING COACH Ok: Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer moved inside one victory of tying Duke males’s coach Mike Krzyzewski for probably the most wins all-time in faculty basketball. VanDerveer sits at 1,201 after her group beat Utah on Friday, however misplaced at Colorado on Sunday. She’s going to subsequent have an opportunity to tie the mark on Friday at dwelling towards Oregon.

SURGING SEMINOLES: Florida State had two wins over ranked groups final week, topping then-No. 20 North Carolina and beforehand Eleventh-ranked Virginia Tech to maneuver as much as fifteenth from 21.