The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 women’s basketball poll, with team’s RECORDS THROUGH MONDAY in parentheses, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week’s poll and first-place votes received.

Rank	School (record)	Points	Last week’s ranking	First-place votes
1	Notre Dame (23-2)	767	2	23
2	Texas (26-2)	741	3	5
3	UCLA (24-1)	705	1	3
4	Southern California (23-2)	674	6	0
5	Connecticut (24-3)	657	7	0
6	South Carolina (23-3)	622	4	0
7	LSU (25-2)	595	5	0
8	Ohio State (22-3)	551	8	0
9	TCU (24-3)	522	9	0
10	North Carolina (23-4)	496	12	0
11	Duke (20-6)	435	10	0
12	North Carolina State (20-5)	422	11	0
13	Tennessee (19-6)	378	16	0
14	Kentucky (20-4)	371	13	0
15	Kansas State (24-4)	370	13	0
16	Oklahoma (19-6)	303	17	0
17	West Virginia (21-5)	253	18	0
18	Maryland (20-6)	237	15	0
19	Alabama (21-5)	224	20	0
20	Georgia Tech (21-5)	161	19	0
21	Michigan State (19-6)	116	22	0
22	Baylor (22-5)	100	NR	0
23	Creighton (21-4)	96	25	0
24	South Dakota State (23-3)	83	24	0
25	Florida State (20-6)	59	21	0

Dropped out: No. 23 Oklahoma State (20-5).

Others receiving votes: Oklahoma State (20-5) 37; Utah (20-5) 27; Louisville (18-7) 17; California (21-6) 14; Illinois (21-5) 12; Mississippi (17-8) 11; Richmond (22-5) 7; Florida Gulf Coast (23-3) 7; Vanderbilt (19-7) 3; George Mason (23-3) 2.