Texas moved as much as No. 2 behind UConn within the Related Press Prime 25 girls’s basketball ballot on Monday after beating two prime groups in a Thanksgiving match.
The Longhorns topped then-No. 2 South Carolina 66-64 a day after beating then-No. 3 UCLA 76-65 in Las Vegas. It was the primary time prior to now 25 years {that a} staff has overwhelmed two top-3 groups in such a short while body.
Texas obtained 10 first-place votes from a 32-member nationwide media panel. No. 1 UConn garnered the opposite 22. The Huskies routed Xavier 104-39 to open Large East play. South Carolina fell to 3rd and UCLA was fourth.
LSU remained fifth. The Tigers, who have not performed a ranked opponent but, have scored over 100 factors in every of their first eight video games to set an NCAA file. They broke the mark of six in a row set by the 1981-82 Louisiana Tech staff that LSU coach Kim Mulkey performed on.
Michigan, Maryland, TCU, Oklahoma and Iowa State rounded out the highest 10. The Cyclones acquired a school-record 47-point effort from star submit participant Audi Crooks to beat Indiana on Sunday.
Out and in
Ohio State debuted on this 12 months’s ballot at No. 23 after edging West Virginia final week 83-81. The Buckeyes adopted that up with a 98-point win over Niagara, probably the most factors scored in class historical past and the most important margin of victory ever for the Buckeyes. NC State fell out of the ballot.
Convention supremacy
The Large Ten matched the Southeastern Convention this week with eight groups ranked after Ohio State entered the Prime 25. The Large 12 is subsequent with 5 and the Atlantic Coast Convention has three. The Large East has one.