UCLA remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball Top 25 on Monday, one day after the Bruins earned the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.
The Bruins head into March Madness with two losses, both coming to USC during the regular season. UCLA received 19 first place votes from the 32-member national media panel. South Carolina, the defending national champion, garnered eight first-place ballots and was No. 2.
UConn was third after winning the Big East Tournament championship over Creighton in the only game with ranked teams last week.
[Read more: Paige Bueckers leads UConn to Big East title: ‘They have all the pieces to win it all’]
USC and Texas rounded out the top five and are also No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament that starts later this week.
TCU, Duke, Notre Dame and North Carolina State were next. LSU was 10th.
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