South Carolina women's basketball moves up in latest AP poll

South Carolina women’s basketball spent last week not in the AP Poll’s No. 1 spot for the first time since last season’s preseason poll. Just a week after the Gamecocks’ drop, Dawn Staley’s team is inching closer to the throne again.

On Monday, the latest AP top-25 rankings dropped, and South Carolina is now No. 3. With Notre Dame losing twice last week and the Gamecocks dominating the Fort Myers Tip-Off by a combined 175-86 score over Iowa State and Purdue, Carolina moved up a spot from 4th.

While USC moved up, in part, due to another team’s misfortune, sometimes teams jump in the rankings thanks to winning big games. That is the opportunity in front of South Carolina this week.

On Thursday, the Gamecocks will host the No. 8 Duke Blue Devils at CLA as part of the SEC/ACC Challenge. Then, on Sunday, Dawn Staley and company will travel to Texas to take on the No. 9 TCU Horned Frogs.

South Carolina will play at 9:00 p.m. against Duke on Thursday. ESPN will broadcast the contest, and the ESPN app will make it available for streaming. The Gamecocks’ game against TCU will be at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. ESPN2 will have the second top-10 matchup, and the ESPN app again will make it available for streaming.

You can see the entire AP poll below:

1. UCLA Bruins
2. UConn Huskies
3. South Carolina Gamecocks
4. Texas Longhorns
5. LSU Tigers
6. Southern Cal Trojans
7. Maryland Terrapins
8. Duke Blue Devils
9. TCU Horned Frogs
10. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
11. Oklahoma Sooners
12. Ohio State Buckeyes
13. Kansas State Wildcats
14. Kentucky Wildcats
15. West Virginia Mountaineers
16. North Carolina Tar Heels
17. Iowa Hawkeyes
18. Ole Miss Rebels
19. Alabama Crimson Tide
20. Iowa State Cyclones
21. Illinois Fighting Illini
22. Louisville Cardinals
23. Michigan Wolverines
24. Michigan State Spartans
25. Nebraska Cornhuskers

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