{"id":484275,"date":"2026-02-16T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:09:08","slug":"uconns-auriemma-ties-vanderveer-for-most-ap-top-25-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484275\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn’s Auriemma ties VanDerveer for most AP Top 25 appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geno Auriemma tied Tara VanDerveer for most appearances in the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll when UConn<\/a> remained No. 1 on Monday.<\/p>\n

Auriemma has led the Huskies to 654 appearances in the poll during his 41-year Hall of Fame career to match VanDerveer, who retired from Stanford<\/a> in 2024. UConn has been ranked for the past 619 consecutive weeks, dating to the preseason 1993-94 poll, and once again was a unanimous choice at No. 1 from the 31-member national media panel. Monday was the 900th poll in the 50-year history of the rankings.<\/p>\n

TeamRec.LW1. UConn (31)27-012. UCLA25-123. South Carolina25-234. Texas24-345. Vanderbilt24-356. Michigan22-477. LSU22-468. Louisville24-499. Duke19-61110. Ohio State22-4811. Oklahoma19-61012. TCU23-41713. Iowa19-51514. Maryland21-62015. Baylor22-51216. Kentucky20-71817. Mississippi20-61418. Michigan State20-61319. West Virginia21-61920. Texas Tech23-41621. Tennessee16-72222. North Carolina21-62123. Minnesota20-6-24. Georgia20-6-25. Alabama20-623<\/p>\n

UCLA<\/a> and South Carolina<\/a> remained second and third behind the Huskies. Texas<\/a> and Vanderbilt<\/a> were next as the top five remained unchanged. The Commodores beat the Longhorns last week before losing to Georgia<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/a>, LSU<\/a> and Louisville<\/a> were next. Duke<\/a> moved back into the top 10 at No. 9 as the Blue Devils are riding a 16-game winning streak after beating rival North Carolina<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ohio State<\/a> dropped two places to 10th after losing to Maryland<\/a> on Sunday. The Terrapins jumped up six spots to 14th.<\/p>\n

In and out<\/p>\n

Minnesota<\/a> entered the Top 25 for the first time this season as the Golden Gophers came in at No. 23. They have an eight-game winning streak but a difficult week ahead with games against Ohio State and No. 18 Michigan State<\/a>. Minnesota was ranked for two weeks last season. Georgia also came back into the rankings this week, appearing at No. 24 after its win over Vanderbilt. Princeton<\/a> and Washington<\/a> fell out of the poll.<\/p>\n

Conference supremacy<\/p>\n

The SEC remained the top conference with 10 teams in the poll. The Big Ten is next with seven. The Big 12 has four teams, the Atlantic Coast Conference has three and the Big East one.<\/p>\n

Games of the week<\/p>\n

No. 6 Michigan at No. 13 Iowa, Sunday. A battle for second place in the Big Ten as the Wolverines and Hawkeyes are a game apart in the loss column in the conference standings, trailing UCLA.<\/p>\n

No. 7 LSU at No. 17 Mississippi, Thursday. A key SEC matchup with the Tigers looking to rebound from a loss to South Carolina. The Rebels have a busy week with games against Tennessee, LSU and South Carolina this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Auriemma tied Tara VanDerveer for most appearances in the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll when UConn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-484275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}