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LSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MOVES UP IN THE POLLS
BATON ROUGE – After
opening the season with a pair of wins in the preseason WNIT, the LSU
women’s basketball team moved up one spot in each poll this week to No.
14 in the Associated Press Top 25 and No. 16 in the USA Today Coaches
poll.
The Lady Tigers (2-0) earned 391 points in the AP poll
and 286 points in the Coaches. LSU remains the third highest
Southeastern Conference team in the AP Top 25 behind No. 4 Tennessee
and No. 7 Kentucky.
The Lady Tigers travel to face Louisville,
ranked fifth in the AP and fourth in the Coaches poll, at 6 p.m. CT
Thursday in the WNIT semifinals. LSU departs for Louisville on
Wednesday afternoon. The contest will not be televised but can be heard
on the LSU Sports Radio Network on Talk 107.3 FM in Baton Rouge and to
members of the Geaux Zone on www.LSUsports.net/live.
LSU has
opened a season with consecutive 80 or more point games for the first
time since 2001-02 as the Lady Tigers beat Stephen F. Austin, 86-58,
then Saint Joseph’s of the Atlantic 10, 80-64. Junior guard DaShawn
Harden earned SEC Player of the Week honors in her weekend debut with a
combined 39 points.
Associated Press Top 25
Rank Team (First-Place Votes) Record Points
1. Connecticut (35) 1-0 899
2. Duke (1) 1-0 862
3. Stanford 1-0 804
4. Tennessee 1-0 759
5. Louisville 1-0 732
6. Notre Dame 1-0 728
7. Kentucky 2-0 691
8. Maryland 2-0 676
9. Baylor 1-0 590
10. California 1-1 550
11. Oklahoma 2-0 492
12. North Carolina 1-0 476
13. Penn State 2-0 446
14. LSU 2-0 391
15. Nebraska 1-0 390
16. Texas A&M 0-0 366
17. Colorado 0-0 259
18. Purdue 1-0 249
19. Michigan State 0-0 213
20. Oklahoma State 2-0 198
21. South Carolina 2-0 190
22. Iowa State 1-0 124
23. Dayton 1-1 104
24. Georgia 1-0 102
25. Gonzaga 2-0 99
Others
receiving votes: Vanderbilt 68, DePaul 60, Green Bay 51, Chattanooga
33, Georgia Tech 30, Iowa 23, Texas 9, Middle Tennessee 8, West
Virginia 8, Ohio State 6, Florida State 4, UCLA 3, Creighton 3, Marist
2, Quinnipiac 1, James Madison 1.
USA Today Coaches Poll
Rank Team (First-Place Votes) Record Points
1. Connecticut (32) 2-0 800
2. Duke 1-0 757
3. Tennessee 2-0 705
4. Louisville 2-0 678
5. Stanford 1-1 662
6. Notre Dame 2-0 648
7. Maryland 2-0 638
8. Kentucky 2-0 593
9. Baylor 1-0 495
10. Nebraska 2-0 475
11. California 1-1 458
12. Texas A&M 1-0 414
13. Oklahoma 2-0 394
14. North Carolina 1-1 391
15. Penn State 2-0 376
16. LSU 2-0 286
17. South Carolina 2-0 244
18. Iowa State 1-0 226
19. Colorado 0-0 190
20. Michigan State 0-1 156
21. Dayton 1-1 145
22. Purdue 1-0 124
22. Georgia 1-0 124
24. Oklahoma State 2-0 111
25. Vanderbilt 2-0 60
Others
receiving votes: Gonzaga 43, Iowa 41, South Florida 34, DePaul 33,
Kansas 17, UCLA 13, Green Bay 12, Middle Tennessee 10, Georgia Tech 10,
Brigham Young 9, Florida State 6, Florida 6, Saint Mary's 4, Marist 4,
Minnesota 2, Rutgers 2, Syracuse 2, Ohio State 1, Southern Methodist 1.
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