After the primary week of NCAA girls’s basketball, the AP prime 25 lastly has recreation footage to help rankings. Under you possibly can see the complete rankings, and we break down the most important headlines from the primary week of play:
AP prime 25 girls’s faculty basketball rankings for week one:
- South Carolina
- UConn
- USC
- Texas
- UCLA
- Notre Dame
- LSU
- Iowa State
- Oklahoma
- Kansas State
- Maryland
- Ohio State
- NC State
- North Carolina
- West Virginia
- Duke
- Baylor
- Louisville
- Ole Miss
- Kentucky
- Nebraska
- Alabama
- Illinois
- Stanford
- Oregon
Others receiving votes:
Iowa 60, TCU 55, Florida St. 42, Michigan 36, Utah 32, Michigan St. 18, Vanderbilt 13, Fairfield 11, South Dakota St. 9, Mississippi St. 7, Arizona 6, Creighton 5, Tennessee 3, Harvard 3, Indiana 3, Center Tennessee 3, Miami 2.
B1G Upsets
Within the now 18-team Huge Ten convention, groups created upsets and surprisingly shut outcomes. It began on the primary night time of the season, when the unranked Michigan Wolverines took on the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks. Michigan entered the season with none votes within the prime 25, however took on the 38-0 Nationwide Championship-winning Gamecocks and stored it shut till the ultimate whistle.
Wolverines’ freshman guard Syla Swords scored 27 factors with 12 rebounds in a recreation the place Michigan led South Carolina at halftime. The Gamecocks pulled away late to win 68-62, however Michigan confirmed that with Swords, the Wolverines might shock groups. Voters gave the Wolverines 36 factors within the ballot, transferring them into competition for a spot within the coming weeks.
South Carolina responded of their second recreation, enjoying in one in every of 4 video games between ranked sides within the first week, beating the No. 9 NC State Wolfpack 71-57.
Friday night time, the Huge Ten have been on either side of upsets. The No. 25 Indiana Hoosiers welcomed the Harvard Crimson to Meeting Corridor however have been shocked by the Ivy League faculty 72-68. The loss knocked the Hoosiers out of the highest 25.
In neighboring Illinois, the Combating Illini have been those inflicting the upset, defeating No. 19 Florida State 83-74 behind a 20-point efficiency by Illinois guard Makira Prepare dinner. The win despatched Illinois from a group receiving votes from Related Press voters to No. 23, the primary time the Huge Ten aspect had three seasons in a row stepping into the rating for the reason that 2000-01 season.
Within the AP prime 25, 4 ranked groups fell to unranked sides. Oregon was the final group to drag out an early upset, defeating the No. 12 Baylor Bears in Eugene. The Geese added former UNC guard Deja Kelly within the offseason, the three-time First Workforce All-ACC star led Oregon with 20 factors, 9 rebounds and 5 assists within the victory, making an attempt to return the Geese to prominence after lacking the NCAA match for 2 straight seasons.
Voters rewarded the Geese’ for his or her upset win and 3-0 begin to the season with a spot at No. 25. One other former Pac-12 aspect, Stanford, additionally snuck into the rankings after a preseason snub, joins the weak one prime 25 because the No. 24 seed.
Ranked Matchups
Exterior of South Carolina and NC State battling, three different video games of the week featured prime 25 groups from the preseason ballot dealing with off.
Monday, 4 prime groups began the season in Paris, France. Within the first of two video games in Europe, the No. 3 USC Trojans wanted all 40 minutes to defeat No. 20 Ole Miss.
The brand new star duo of JuJu Watkins and Kiki Iriafen each had double-doubles within the win. Watkins, preseason Huge Ten Participant of the Yr, had 27 factors and 10 rebounds, whereas the Stanford switch Iriafen had 22 factors and 13 rebounds, and the 2 most vital factors of the sport. Iriafen earned a visit to the road and hit each free throws to provide USC the 68-66 win.
Regardless of the foreshadowing of a harmful duo at USC, the Ole Miss protection proved harder for the Trojans who’re adjusting with new arrivals from the switch portal and freshman class.
No. 5 UCLA adopted USC’s lead, bringing the Huge Ten its fourth win over ranked sides within the week, defeating the No. 17 Louisville Cardinals 66-59, additionally in Paris.
Sunday, it was a reunion between former ACC sides in School Park, Maryland. For the primary time in 10 years, the No. 18 Maryland Terrapins confronted the No. 11 Duke Blue Devils.
Maryland head coach Brenda Frese introduced in 4 key transfers within the offseason, they usually didn’t want an excessive amount of assist adjusting. Former Villanova ahead Christina Dalce had 12 factors and 14 rebounds, seven on the offensive boards. In-conference switch Kaylene Smikle, who moved from Rutgers to Maryland, led the Terps with 23 factors within the wire-to-wire victory over the Blue Devils.
Freshmen Debuts
Swords wasn’t the one highly-touted freshman making a mark of their first NCAA recreation. No. 1 total recruit Sarah Sturdy debuted beginning for the No. 2 UConn Huskies and scored 17 factors alongside teammate Paige Bueckers. Sturdy had 30 factors in two video games in opposition to unranked mid-major sides.
No. 2 ranked freshman guard had just one recreation in week one, but it surely was one No. 14 Ohio State followers gained’t quickly overlook. Level guard Jaloni Cambridge broke a faculty document for many factors in a freshman debut, scoring 31 factors with 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals on 12-for-14 capturing. That was in 26 minutes in opposition to the Cleveland State Vikings, the reigning Horizon League common season champions.
South Carolina’s Joyce Edwards got here off the bench within the win over the Wolverines, however began for head coach Daybreak Staley in opposition to NC State. In Edwards’ first begin, the freshman had eight factors and 4 steals in opposition to the Wolfpack.
Plus, in Los Angeles, Kennedy Smith slid into the Trojans beginning lineup to play alongside former highschool opponent Watkins, scoring 22 factors in two begins.
The No. 6 Notre Dame Combating Irish have a freshman star of their very own in Kate Koval. The previous highschool teammate of Swords began each lopsided wins for Notre Dame over Mercyhurst and the Purdue Boilermakers. In Koval’s debut in opposition to Mercyhurst, the ahead had 18 factors, 7 rebounds and 5 blocks, however most Irish followers have been speaking about someone else.
Olivia Miles’ Huge Return
Within the last recreation of Notre Dame’s 22-23 common season, star guard Olivia Miles tore her ACL. The harm not solely ended that season however the complete 23-24 marketing campaign.
Monday, Miles returned and picked up the place she left off. Miles had her fourth NCAA profession triple-double, enjoying in her first recreation alongside AP All-American First Workforce level guard Hannah Hidalgo.
Miles had 20 factors, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in 32 minutes for the Combating Irish and made Notre Dame seem like a group poised to remain close to the highest of the rating. Their first take a look at comes Nov. 23, when the Irish journey to USC. It’s the primary of three video games in opposition to groups within the prime 10, earlier than the beginning of the convention season. The Irish play the UConn Huskies and No. 4 Texas Longhorns within the span of seven days to begin December.
With Miles and Hidalgo, the Combating Irish hope to return to the Remaining 4 for the primary time since 2019. Previously 5 seasons, Notre Dame made three NCAA tournaments, however misplaced within the Candy Sixteen in all three years,
