{"id":97400,"date":"2025-12-22T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:22:09","slug":"texas-tech-enters-womens-ap-top-25-poll-for-the-first-time-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/97400\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech enters women\u2019s AP Top 25 poll for the first time since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn, Texas<\/a>, South Carolina and UCLA all cruised to easy victories to remain atop The Associated Press Top 25<\/a> women\u2019s basketball poll released Monday.<\/p>\n

The Huskies routed then-No. 11 Iowa<\/a> in the Women\u2019s Champions Classic on Saturday to stay unbeaten and hold on to No. 1 spot in the Top 25. UConn received 25 first-place ballots from the 32-member national media panel. Texas got the other seven to stay No. 2 in the final poll of the calendar year. The next poll will be released Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech<\/a> (14-0) entered the poll for the first time since 2012 after beating then-No. 15 Baylor<\/a> 61-60 on Sunday. The win over the Bears was the Red Raiders\u2019 first over a ranked opponent this season and dropped Baylor to 22nd. It also was Texas Tech\u2019s first win over Baylor since 2011.<\/p>\n

The top seven teams remained unchanged with South Carolina and UCLA following Texas. LSU, Michigan and Maryland were next. Oklahoma<\/a> and TCU<\/a> were tied for eighth with Iowa State 10th after a last-second victory<\/a> over Kansas.<\/p>\n

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Rising Louisville<\/p>\n

Louisville climbed up three spots to No. 13 after routing then-No. 17 Tennessee. The Lady Vols fell to 23rd. The Cardinals have won six straight games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unbeatens and winless teams<\/p>\n

There are 12 undefeated women\u2019s basketball teams left through Sunday: Alabama, Arizona State, Texas and Texas Tech are 14-0. Georgia, Iowa State, LSU, Maryland and TCU are 13-0. Nebraska, UConn and Vanderbilt are 12-0.<\/p>\n

Nine teams are still looking for their first win, including three from the Northeast Conference (Central Connecticut, Mercyhurst and Saint Francis). Joining them are Niagara, Long Beach State, Valparaiso, New Orleans, Florida A&M and Louisiana-Lafayette.<\/p>\n

Conference supremacy<\/p>\n

With Washington dropping out of the Top 25 , the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference each have eight ranked teams. The Big 12 is next with four and the ACC has three. The Big East and Ivy League each have one ranked team.<\/p>\n

Game of the week<\/p>\n

Teams are off for the holidays until Sunday when No. 4 UCLA visits No. 21 Ohio State as the only matchup between ranked teams that day.<\/p>\n

AP Top 25RANKSCHOOL (1ST VOTES)RECORDPOINTSPREVIOUS1UConn (25)12-079312Texas (7)14-077523South Carolina12-172734UCLA11-171045LSU13-064456Michigan10-163667Maryland13-058078TCU13-056498Oklahoma11-1564810Iowa State13-05561011Kentucky12-14391212Vanderbilt12-04171313Louisville12-34001614Iowa10-23681115Ole Miss12-13591416North Carolina11-33011817USC9-32551918Notre Dame9-22422019Ohio State10-12132120Nebraska12-01802321Texas Tech14-0126NR22Baylor11-31241523Tennessee7-31221724Michigan State10-1882425Princeton11-16925<\/p>\n

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma State 37, Alabama 26, Stanford 21, Georgia 20, Washington 17, NC State 12, Arizona St. 7, Illinois 4, Oregon 3, BYU 1.<\/p>\n

Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UConn, Texas, South Carolina and UCLA all cruised to easy victories to remain atop The Associated Press Top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3688,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-97400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-colleges","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}