Get ready for a new No. 1 team in women’s college basketball — again.
Notre Dame‘s stay at the top lasted just one week. NC State upset the Irish 104-95 in double overtime Sunday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Notre Dame will undoubtedly tumble from the top spot when the Associated Press Top 25 is updated Monday. No. 2 Texas, which plays Georgia on Monday, looks like the front-runner for the No. 1 ranking. The Longhorns last held that spot in February 2004.
Defending NCAA champion South Carolina started the season No. 1, then UCLA took over after beating the Gamecocks on Nov. 24 in Los Angeles. Notre Dame moved up after UCLA’s loss at USC on Feb. 13.
The last time four schools held the top ranking during the same season was in 2020-21: South Carolina, Stanford, Louisville and UConn. Since the AP poll started in 1976, there has never been more than four teams to reach No. 1 in the same season.
Sunday’s loss ended the Irish’s 19-game winning streak. Notre Dame hadn’t dropped a game since back-to-back losses on Nov. 29-30 to TCU and Utah at a tournament in the Cayman Islands. But Notre Dame ran into the rare team that has three elite guards, just like the Irish.
Zoe Brooks, Aziaha James and Saniya Rivers scored or assisted on 93 of NC…
