USA Today Coaches Poll for Jan. 5, 2016: Arizona State moves up seven spots, Duke falls four places
Notes
- Arizona moved up seven spots to No. 14. The Sun Devils defeated two ranked Pac-12 foes over the weekend, Cal and Stanford.
- Tennessee moved up five spots to No. 11. Ohio State climbed four spots to No. 5.
- No. 21 UCLA moved up five spots, last night the Bruins defeated higher-ranked Oregon State. They also beat two previously undefeated teams last week, Pac-12 foes USC and Oregon.
- No. 10 Texas A&M and No. 20 Seton Hall rose three spots each.
- No. 7 Baylor and No. 8 Maryland dropped three spots each.
- Teams that dropped two spots include No. 9 Kentucky, No. 12 Oregon State, No. 13 Stanford, No. 15 Florida State and No. 17 Northwestern.
- No. 22 Michigan State and No. 25 Syracuse entered the poll while California and Miami (FL) dropped out.
- There were no changes in the top three.
- This week’s Associated Press Poll
USA Today Coaches Poll for Jan. 5, 2016
| RANK | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | 1st PLACE VOTES | PREV | CHANGE | HI/LOW |
| 1 | Connecticut | 11-0 | 800 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1/1 |
| 2 | South Carolina | 13-0 | 768 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2/2 |
| 3 | Notre Dame | 13-1 | 732 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3/3 |
| 4 | Texas | 13-0 | 703 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6/11 |
| 5 | Ohio State | 10-3 | 625 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 9/14 |
| 6 | Mississippi State | 14-1 | 621 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8/13 |
| 7 | Baylor | 14-1 | 620 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 4/5 |
| 8 | Maryland | 12-2 | 602 | 0 | 5 | -3 | 5/6 |
| 9 | Kentucky | 11-1 | 516 | 0 | 7 | -2 | 7/17 |
| 10 | Texas A&M | 11-3 | 500 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 9/18 |
| 11 | Tennessee | 10-3 | 426 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4/16 |
| 12 | Oregon State | 10-3 | 417 | 0 | 10 | -2 | 7/10 |
| 13 | Stanford | 11-3 | 363 | 0 | 11 | -2 | 10/16 |
| 14 | Arizona State | 11-3 | 359 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 15/24 |
| 15 | Florida State | 10-4 | 288 | 0 | 13 | -2 | 7/14 |
| 16 | Duke | 11-4 | 281 | 0 | 12 | -4 | 9/13 |
| 17 | Northwestern | 12-2 | 235 | 0 | 15 | -2 | 13/24 |
| 18 | South Florida | 8-3 | 233 | 0 | 17 | -1 | 17/23 |
| 19 | Oklahoma | 10-3 | 205 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 17/24 |
| 20 | Seton Hall | 13-1 | 201 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 21/NR |
| 21 | UCLA | 11-3 | 181 | 0 | 26 | 5 | – |
| 22 | Michigan State | 10-3 | 127 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 20/NR |
| 23 | Iowa | 12-2 | 116 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 19/25 |
| 24 | DePaul | 10-5 | 110 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 15/24 |
| 25 | Syracuse | 11-3 | 92 | 0 | 31 | 6 | 25/NR |
*Hi/Low Rankings – Hi/Low = The highest and lowest ranking each team has held during the designated season. Any team that starts the season unranked and/or falls out of the top 25 during the season will reflect a “NR” (not ranked) designation as its lowest rank.
Others Receiving Votes: California 74; Miami (Fla.) 62; Missouri 40; Virginia Tech 33; Georgia 14; Duquesne 14; St. John?s 10; Princeton 9; Florida 8; Louisville 8; Auburn 6; Boston College 1.
The USA Today Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 32 head coaches a Division I institutions. All are members of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. The board for the 2015-16 season: Katie Abrahamson-Henderson, Albany; Zenarae Antoine, Texas State; Lynn Bria, Stetson; Joan Bonvicini, Seattle; Dawn Brown, Prairie View A&M; Jamie Craighead, San Jose State; Kristy Curry, Alabama; Denise Dillon, Drexel; Brooks Donald-Williams, McNeese State; Oties Epps, Evansville; Brittney Ezell, East Tennessee State; Jason Flowers, Cal-State Northridge; Susan Robinson Fruchtl, Providence; Stephanie Gaitley, Fordham; LeDawn Gibson, Florida A&M; Joe Haigh, Saint Francis (Pa.); Quentin Hillsman, Syracuse; Ali Jaques, Siena; Jeff Judkins, Brigham Young; Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick, North Carolina-Asheville; Kelly Lewis-Jay, Florida Atlantic; Jim Littell, Oklahoma State; Dave Magarity, Army; David Midlick, Austin Peay; Regina Miller, Illinois-Chicago; Mike Neighbors, Washington; Rhonda Rompola, Southern Methodist; Brady Sallee, Ball State; Wendy Schuller, Eastern Washington; Dayna Smith, Cornell; Coquese Washington, Penn State; Amy Williams, South Dakota.
