Michigan women's basketball returns to Associated Press top 10 after big victory

Welcome back to the top 10, Michigan.

The Wolverines' women's basketball team moved up three spots to No. 8 in this week's Associated Press women's Top 25, returning to the top 10 on Monday after a one-week absence.

Michigan (15-2, 6-1 Big Ten) returned with a pair of resounding victories last week, including a 69-49 demolition of then-No. 8 Maryland on Sunday. It was the Wolverines' first victory in College Park.

Maryland dropped to No. 12 in this week's poll.

South Carolina remained the No. 1 team after knocking off two unranked opponents.

The Gamecocks received 28 of the 30 first-place votes from a national media panel after beating Texas A&M and Arkansas last week. South Carolina is off until hosting Vanderbilt next Monday.

There was no movement near the top of the poll as Stanford, Louisville, North Carolina State, Tennessee and Indiana followed the Gamecocks again. Louisville received the other two first-place votes.

Iowa State moved up two spots to No. 7 with Michigan, UConn and Arizona rounding out the top 10.

Oklahoma made the biggest jump, climbing nine spots to 14th. The Sooners beat then-No. 14 Baylor and TCU last week and now have their best ranking since they were 12th in 2016.

Florida Gulf Coast and Iowa returned to the poll at Nos. 24 and 25 while Kansas State and South Florida dropped out.

Associated Press Top 25 women's poll

1. South Carolina (28 first-place votes), 17-1, 747 (last week: 1)

2. Stanford, 13-3, 701 (2)

3. Louisville (2), 15-1, 694 (3)

4. NC State, 16-2, 661 (4)

5. Tennessee, 17-1, 633 (5)

6. Indiana, 14-2, 607 (6)

7. Iowa State, 16-1, 542 (9)

8. Michigan, 15-2, 529 (11)

9. UConn, 9-3, 510 (10)

10. Arizona, 12-2, 466 (7)

11. LSU, 17-2, 464 (12)

12. Maryland, 12-5, 406 (8)

13. Georgia, 13-3, 310 (17)

14. Oklahoma, 15-2, 306 (23)

15. Texas, 12-3, 295 (13)

15. Baylor, 11-4, 295 (14)

17. BYU, 14-1, 275 (18)

18. Georgia Tech, 13-4, 263 (15)

19. Notre Dame, 13-3, 262 (20)

20. North Carolina, 14-2, 133 (21)

21. Duke, 11-4, 125 (16)

22. Colorado, 13-1, 119 (22)

23. Kentucky, 8-5, 83 (19)

24. Florida Gulf Coast, 15-1, 80 (NR)

25. Iowa, 10-4, 52 (NR)

Others receiving votes: Ohio St. 47, Virginia Tech 40, Oregon 23, Mississippi 21, Kansas St 18, South Florida 14, UCF 9, Missouri 8, DePaul 5, Kansas 4, South Dakota 3.