April 3, 2017

2016-17 WBCA
USA TODAY Sports NCAA Division I Top 25 Coaches' Poll

April 3, 2017

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:

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Rank


School (record)


Points

Last week’s
rank

First-place
votes

1.

South Carolina (33-4)

800

4

32

2.

Mississippi State (34-5)

763

7

0

3.

Connecticut (36-1)

741

1

0

4.

Stanford (32-6)

700

6

0

5.

Notre Dame (33-4)

657

2

0

6.

Baylor (33-4)

653

5

0

7.

Florida State (28-7)

556

13

0

8.

Maryland (32-3)

536

3

0

9.

Oregon State (31-5)

529

8

0

10.

Ohio State (28-7)

489

10

0

11.

Washington (29-6)

480

11

0

12.

Louisville (29-8)

436

12

0

13.

UCLA (25-9)

419

14

0

14.

Texas (25-9)

380

15

0

15.

Duke (28-6)

356

9

0

16.

Oregon (23-14)

345

not ranked

0

17.

North Carolina State (23-9)

256

17

0

18.

DePaul (27-8)

238

19

0

19.

Miami (Fla.) (24-9)

225

16

0

20.

West Virginia (24-11)

148

21

0

21.

Oklahoma (23-10)

147

20

0

22.

Syracuse (22-11)

119

22

0

23.

Quinnipiac (29-7)

75

not ranked

0

24.

Drake (28-5)

68

18

0

25.

Kentucky (22-11)

61

24

0

Dropped out: No. 23 Temple (24-8), No. 25 Marquette (25-8).

Others receiving votes: Arizona State (20-13) 57; Temple (24-8) 52; Michigan (28-9) 36; Kansas State (23-11) 20; Creighton (24-8) 17; South Florida (24-9) 13; Florida Gulf Coast (26-9) 7; Tennessee (20-12) 7; Marquette (25-8) 6; Missouri (22-11) 3; Elon (27-7) 2; Georgia Tech (22-15) 2; Virginia (20-13) 1.

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.

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