WACO, Texas – The Baylor women's basketball team begins the 2021-22 season ranked No. 7 in the nation by the
Associated Press, according to its poll released on Tuesday.
The preseason nod marks the 337
th-straight week that Baylor has been ranked in the AP Top 25, which is second only to UConn's streak of 527 weeks. The last time the Bears weren't ranked in the preseason poll came ahead of the 2003-04 season, marking the 18
th-straight year to begin the season ranked. Coincidentally, the 2003-04 Bears were the team to start the streak of 337 weeks on the 11
th week of that season.
South Carolina comes in as the top seed, edging Connecticut by nine points. After the Huskies, defending national champion Stanford, Maryland and NC State round out the top five. Louisville comes in sixth.
Baylor is one of four Big 12 schools to be ranked in the preseason poll, along with No. 12 Iowa State, No. 19 West Virginia and No. 25 Texas. Oklahoma State and Oklahoma each received votes.
2021-22 PRESEASON ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
- South Carolina 705 (14)
- Connecticut 696 (10)
- Stanford 682 (5)
- Maryland 632
- NC State 589
- Louisville 575
- Baylor 522
- Indiana 521
- Iowa 513
- Oregon 479
- Michigan 403
- Iowa State 376
- Kentucky 368
- Oregon State 273
- Tennessee 244
- Florida State 231
- Ohio State 197
- Georgia Tech 197
- West Virginia 192
- UCLA 175
- South Florida 146
- Arizona 135
- Texas A&M 123
- Virginia Tech 98
- Texas 79
Others receiving votes: Georgia (65), Michigan State (63), Florida Gulf Coast (43), Missouri State (18), South Dakota (13), LSU (10), Arkansas (10), Washington State (9), Oklahoma State (8), Notre Dame (8), DePaul (6), Belmont (5), Oklahoma (3), South Dakota State (1).
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