UConn improved to 33-0 after routing Louisville, Cincinnati and Rutgers. The Huskies have won 39 games dating to last season, the third-longest streak in school history. Connecticut will play the No. 3 Cardinals on Monday night for the inaugural American Athletic Conference tournament title.
Notre Dame remains No. 2 after finishing an undefeated regular season by winning the ACC tournament championship.
Tennessee and West Virginia move up to fourth and fifth. It's the Mountaineers' best ranking. They face No. 7 Baylor for the Big 12 title Monday night.
Stanford lost in the Pac-12 semifinals and drops to sixth. South Carolina, Duke and Kentucky round out the first 10. Bowling Green enters the poll at No. 25, the school's first ranking since 2009.
Top 25
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through March 9, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (36) 33-0 900 1 2. Notre Dame 32-0 864 2 3. Louisville 30-3 799 3 4. Tennessee 26-5 784 6 5. West Virginia 29-3 719 7 6. Stanford 28-3 711 4 7. Baylor 28-4 698 9 8. South Carolina 27-4 665 5 9. Duke 27-6 607 10 10. Kentucky 24-8 563 12 11. Maryland 24-6 537 8 12. North Carolina 24-9 504 13 13. Nebraska 25-6 464 16 14. Penn St. 22-7 408 11 15. Texas A&M 24-8 402 15 16. NC State 25-7 374 14 17. Purdue 21-8 247 17 18. Gonzaga 27-4 229 21 19. Iowa 26-8 226 23 20. Michigan St. 22-9 210 19 21. Oklahoma St. 23-8 203 18 22. Middle Tennessee 26-4 180 22 23. DePaul 25-6 115 25 24. California 21-9 64 20 25. Bowling Green 27-3 49 — Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 48, Chattanooga 45, Oregon St. 35, BYU 15, Rutgers 11, Arizona St. 9, UTEP 5, James Madison 3, Marist 3, LSU 2, St. John's 2.
