The UConn women’s basketball team was voted the unanimous No. 1 team in the country in this week’s AP poll for the first time in 2025-26.

The Lady Vols have started 4-0 in SEC play and didn’t get tripped up by a game that they should have won. That is important because the degree of difficulty in the conference schedule is about to escalate.

Lady Vols basketball crushed Arkansas without Talaysia Cooper. All five of Tennessee's freshmen stepped up in the absence of their leading scorer.

The UConn women's basketball team rose to No. 1 in the Associated Press poll for the first time on Jan. 17, 1995. A day later, the Huskies rolled past Boston College at Conte Forum for their first win as the top-ranked team. No one has been No. 1 more weeks than UConn. No one has won more games as the No. 1 team than the Huskies.

The Lady Vols remain ranked No. 22 in the latest USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll. The entire poll is listed below. Princeton 38; West Virginia 30; Nebraska 24; Stanford 5; Illinois 5; Oklahoma State 4; North Carolina State 4; Oregon 3; Auburn 2; Arizona State 2

UConn has won 12 women’s basketball national championships. Tennessee has won eight. Nobody else comes close. And that’s why it should be no surprise to see those two powerhouse programs ranked atop The Associated Press Top 25 all-time rankings,

UConn, Texas, South Carolina, and UCLA remain at the top of The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll, which is dominated by SEC and Big Ten teams.

4. UCLA (14-1): The Bruins take the first of two regular-season meetings from crosstown rival USC in a rout at Pauley Pavilion. 5. Oklahoma (14-1): A pair of the Top 25 games coming up for the Sooners, home with Ole Miss and at Kentucky.

Lady Vols basketball has a ranked matchup with Louisville in New York. Here's our prediction for the Women's Champions Classic.

A week of chaos in college basketball -- during which we saw 11 ranked teams suffer at least one loss and three teams suffer two losses -- guarantees that Monday's AP Top 25 poll will bring with it plenty of upheaval.