NEW YORK, N.Y. – Dawn Staley and South Carolina are No. 1 in the final Associated Press women's basketball poll for the first time in school history.
The Gamecocks received 26 first-place votes from the national media panel in voting released Tuesday. No. 2 Oregon garnered the other four votes.
Baylor, Maryland and UConn rounded out the first five. “Our season ended and we’re No. 1," said Staley, in her 12th year at South Carolina. "I don’t think it’s up for discussion who No.
1 is.” Louisville, Stanford, N.C. State, Mississippi State and UCLA rounded out the first 10 teams, which were unchanged from the previous poll.