South Carolina remained the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday.
The Gamecocks received all 36 votes from a national media panel, marking the seventh consecutive week that they’ve been No. 1. South Carolina had a run of 38 straight weeks as the top team over the previous two seasons before LSU was the preseason No. 1 this year.
With most teams having a light schedule last week ahead of the holidays, the top 10 were unchanged. UCLA, North Carolina State, Iowa and Texas followed the Gamecocks.
Southern California, LSU, Colorado, Stanford and Baylor were next.
Ohio State dropped four spots to No. 17 after losing to UCLA by six points.
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