Baylor on top of women's poll; Texas A&M still No. 20

By: Associated Press

Updated: Mon 7:45 PM, Jan 14, 2013

Baylor remains the top choice in The Associated Press women's basketball poll while Michigan earns its first appearance in the Top 25 in a decade.

The Lady Bears received 34 first place votes after cruising to easy wins over Iowa State and Kansas and now own the longest active conference winning streak, winning 32 straight Big 12 games.

Notre Dame, UConn, Duke and Kentucky round out the first five. The Wildcats switched places with Stanford, which had its 81-game conference winning streak end with a loss to No. 7 California on Sunday. Kentucky and Stanford were the only two changes in the first 16 teams in the Top 25.

Michigan enters the poll at No. 25. It's the first time the Wolverines are ranked since Dec. 23, 2002. They will play at Northwestern on Thursday.

Miami, which lost to both Maryland and Florida State, dropped out.

AP Top 25
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Baylor (34) 14-1 991
2 Notre Dame (1) 14-1 948
3 Connecticut (2) 14-1 914
4 Duke (3) 15-0 907
5 Kentucky 16-1 817
6 Stanford 14-2 787
7 California 13-2 755
8 Penn State 13-2 724
9 Tennessee 13-3 670
10 Maryland 13-3 615
11 North Carolina 17-1 590
12 Purdue 13-2 536
13 Georgia 15-2 519
14 UCLA 13-2 468
15 Louisville 14-3 422
16 Oklahoma 14-2 410
17 Oklahoma State 13-2 324
18 Dayton 13-1 276
19 South Carolina 14-3 256
20 Texas A&M 13-5 233
21 Colorado 13-2 232
22 Florida State 13-3 182
23 Kansas 11-4 124
24 Iowa State 12-2 88
25 Michigan 14-2 86

Others receiving votes: Syracuse 39, Vanderbilt 23, Miami (FL) 12, Michigan State 12, Nebraska 12, UTEP 8, Villanova 8, Iowa 5, Delaware 4, Arkansas 2, Creighton 1

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