The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 women's basketball poll, with first-place votes received in parenthesis, team's records, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th and ranking in last week's poll:

Record  Pts Pvs

1. South Carolina (32)  5-0    800   1

2. UCLA  6-0    761   2

3. Stanford  7-0    737   3

4. Iowa  7-1    669   6

5. LSU  7-1    604   5

6. Utah  5-1    582   8

7. Colorado  6-1    563   4

8. Southern California  5-0    561  10

9. Virginia Tech  5-1    555   9

10. North Carolina State  7-0    539  16

11. Texas  7-0    499  11

12. Connecticut  4-2    459   7

13. Ohio State  5-1    432  12

14. Notre Dame  5-1    367  14

15. Florida State  5-1    353  13

16. Baylor  5-0    338  18

17. Indiana  5-1    286  19

18. Kansas State  6-1    234  22

19. Louisville  6-1    193  15

20. Mississippi  6-1    181  23

21. Mississippi State  8-0    131  NR

22. Tennessee  4-2    128  21

23. Marquette  6-0     77  NR

24. North Carolina  5-2     64  17

25. Creighton  5-1     38  NR

Dropped Out: No. 20 Oklahoma (5-2); No. 24 Maryland (4-3); No. 25 Washington State (7-1).

Others receiving votes: Princeton (4-2) 36; Washington State (7-1) 34; Oklahoma (5-2) 33; Michigan (5-1) 28; Maryland (4-3) 25; Arizona (6-1) 19; Duke (4-2) 19; Miami (Fla.) (5-0) 18; UNLV (6-0) 12; Florida Gulf Coast (5-2) 8; Green Bay (4-2) 6; Gonzaga (6-2) 5; Syracuse (5-1) 4; Alabama (7-1) 1; Middle Tennessee (5-2) 1.

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