USA Today Coaches Poll for March 10, 2015: No changes in top 5, Ohio St. & Northwestern enter
The USA Today Sports Top 25 women’s basketball coaches poll, with team’s records through Monday in parentheses, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week’s poll and first-place votes received:
Dropped out: No. 24 Syracuse (21-9), No. 25 Nebraska (21-10).
Others receiving votes: South Florida (26-7) 52; James Madison (26-3) 29; Nebraska (21-10) 28; Texas (22-10) 27; DePaul (25-7) 26; California (23-9) 22; Syracuse (21-9) 21; Western Kentucky (27-4) 17; Arkansas-Little Rock (25-4) 4; St. John‘s (21-10) 3; Quinnipiac (31-3) 2.
| Rank | School (record) |
PointsÂ
|
Last week’s rank
|
First-place votes
|
| 1 | Connecticut (32-1) |
800
|
1
|
32
|
| 2 | Notre Dame (31-2) |
766
|
2
|
0
|
| 3 | Maryland (30-2) |
727
|
3
|
0
|
| 4 | South Carolina (30-2) |
715
|
4
|
0
|
| 5 | Tennessee (27-5) |
652
|
5
|
0
|
| 6 | Baylor (30-3) |
646
|
7
|
0
|
| 7 | Florida State (29-4) |
622
|
6
|
0
|
| 8 | Louisville (25-6) |
531
|
10
|
0
|
| 9 | Arizona State (27-5) |
522
|
8
|
0
|
| 10 | Oregon State (26-4) |
489
|
9
|
0
|
| 11 | Kentucky (23-9) |
479
|
11
|
0
|
| 12 | North Carolina (24-8) |
424
|
12
|
0
|
| 13 | Princeton (29-0) |
397
|
14
|
0
|
| 14 | Mississippi State (26-6) |
374
|
13
|
0
|
| 15 | Iowa (24-7) |
322
|
15
|
0
|
| 16 | Duke (21-10) |
298
|
16
|
0
|
| 17 | Stanford (24-9) |
285
|
20
|
0
|
| 18 | Chattanooga (29-3) |
243
|
18
|
0
|
| T19 | George Washington (29-3) |
203
|
19
|
0
|
| T19 | Texas A&M (23-9) |
203
|
17
|
0
|
| 21 | Florida Gulf Coast (28-2) |
155
|
21
|
0
|
| 22 | Seton Hall (28-4) |
130
|
23
|
0
|
| 23 | Rutgers (22-9) |
70
|
22
|
0
|
| 24 | Ohio State (23-10) |
61
|
not ranked
|
0
|
| 25 | Northwestern (23-8) |
55
|
not ranked
|
0
|
The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 32 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
