South Carolina Gets AP No. 1 Nod For Whopping 37th week In A Row

The Related Press has needed to make some robust choices all 12 months developing with a top-25 listing in girls’s basketball this season. Placing South Carolina within the No. 1 spot, nonetheless, has now been one among them every week.

On the way in which to an ideal 32-0 document, South Carolina has bulldozed over its opponents all season lengthy and was ranked No. 1 once more within the AP’s rankings. It was the thirty seventh week in a row the Gamecocks have seemed down at the remainder of the pack. They acquired all 28 first-place votes from the media panel.

South Carolina now has the second-longest streak in NCAA historical past for groups sticking within the No. 1 spot for consecutive weeks. LSU was tied with the Gamecocks with 36 straight weeks being ranked No. 1 till the newest ballot got here out. UConn owns the document with 51 weeks in a row within the prime spot.

The Gamecocks will even occupy a No. 1 seed on this 12 months’s NCAA event and are coming off an SEC championship victory. They beat Tennessee this previous weekend and avenged their loss within the SEC title recreation from final season.

Beneath South Carolina are the red-hot Iowa Hawkeyes, who decimated the remainder of the Massive Ten over the weekend to seize their second convention championship in as a few years. They overtook Indiana for the No. 2 spot after beating the Hoosiers on a buzzer-beater by Caitlin Clark. Indiana is now ranked third. Iowa hasn’t ranked this excessive within the AP’s rankings since 1994.

Virginia Tech at 4 and Stanford at 5 rounded out the top-five rankings.