UConn Women's Basketball team

The media has voted and they have picked the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team as top team in the land as the AP Poll was released this afternoon.

The Huskies received 44-of-45 first place votes and this is the first time in 5 years that they have been the preseason number 1 team in the land. It is also just the 6th time in school histoy for the Huskies to be on top of the AP Poll. It doesn’t matter though as the only goal the Huskies have is cutting down the nets in St. Louis in April.

The Big East had a total of 3 teams in the top 10 as Rutgers was number 5 and the Louisville Cardinals checked in at number 10.  Notre Dame was the only other Big East team to be ranked as they are number 16.

Five teams (Pittsburgh, Marquette, Syracuse, DePaul and West Virginia) were in the others receiving votes category.

Here’s a look at the complete poll.

NCAA Division I: AP Women’s Top 25
RANK TEAM RECORD PTS LAST
1 Connecticut (44) 36-2 1124 1
2 Stanford (1) 35-4 1018 4
3 Maryland 33-4 1005 5
4 Oklahoma 22-9 946 14
5 Rutgers 27-7 914 7
6 North Carolina 33-3 892 2
7 Tennessee 36-2 857 3
8 Duke 25-10 815 9
9 California 27-7 769 10
10 Louisville 26-10 726 19
11 Texas A&M 29-8 624 8
12 Vanderbilt 25-9 546 21
13 Texas 22-13 501 NR
14 Oklahoma St. 27-8 442 13
15 Virginia 24-10 437 24
16 Notre Dame 25-9 374 15
17 Arizona St. 22-11 364 NR
18 Ohio St. 22-9 359 25
19 Baylor 25-7 353 12
20 Auburn 20-12 239 NR
21 Florida St. 19-14 204 NR
22 Xavier 24-9 170 NR
23 Purdue 19-15 148 NR
24 LSU 31-6 133 6
25 Old Dominion 31-5 124 11
Others receiving votes:
Pittsburgh 116, Michigan St. 67, Iowa St. 66, Marist 58, Marquette 56, Utah 50, Georgia 37, Kansas St. 25, Syracuse 20, DePaul 8, George Washington 7, Illinois St. 7, Southern Cal 5, West Virginia 5, Arkansas 3, Georgia Tech 2, Montana 2, UTEP 2, Gonzaga 1, Iowa 1, Liberty 1, S. Dakota St. 1, SMU 1.