Ohio State is up to No. 2 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, matching the best ranking in school history.
The Buckeyes, who were fifth last week, have won 11 straight games, and their only losses have come to USC, UCLA and Michigan. The Buckeyes started as No. 7 in the preseason poll before falling to 20th on Jan. 1. They were 18th on Jan. 15 and have been on the rise ever since.
South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 choice, grabbing all 35 first-place votes again in Monday’s poll after routing Missouri and then-No. 11 UConn. The Gamecocks did it without star center Kamilla Cardoso, who was playing for Brazil in the Olympic qualifying tournament.
Stanford moved up three places to No. 3. Iowa dropped to fourth and Texas climbed to fifth.
It’s the sixth consecutive week that there’s a different No. 2 team in the poll after Iowa blew…
