Oklahoma falls a spot in USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll
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The Oklahoma women's basketball team will head into its first Southeastern Conference game of the season New Year's Day in familiar national position.
The Sooners ranked No. 9 in the latest USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll released Tuesday. Oklahoma dropped one spot from last week despite not losing, falling 22 voting points behind No. 8 Michigan, the team with which the Sooners were tied before Christmas.
OU is one of four SEC teams in the top 10, joining No. 2 Texas, No. 3 South Carolina and No. 5 LSU. Connecticut stayed at No. 1 and UCLA, the only to which Oklahoma has lost this season, ranked fourth. Maryland (6), Texas Christian (7) and Iowa State (10) rounded out the top 10.
Other SEC teams in the top 25 include Vanderbilt at 11th, Kentucky at 12th, Ole Miss at 17th, Tennessee at 22nd and Alabama at 24th.
Oklahoma plays at Texas A&M and home to Mississippi State this voting week before facing off against those Rebels at Lloyd Noble Center on Jan. 8.
Here is the complete Top 25.
| Rank | Team | Record | PTS | 1st | Prev | Chg | Hi/Lo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UConn | 13-0 | 772 | 28 | 1 | – | 1/1 |
| 2 | Texas | 15-0 | 747 | 3 | 2 | – | 2/4 |
| 3 | South Carolina | 13-1 | 701 | 0 | 3 | – | 2/3 |
| 4 | UCLA | 12-1 | 675 | 0 | 4 | – | 3/4 |
| 5 | LSU | 14-0 | 649 | 0 | 5 | – | 5/5 |
| 6 | Maryland | 14-0 | 610 | 0 | 6 | – | 6/10 |
| 7 | TCU | 13-0 | 572 | 0 | 7 | – | 7/12 |
| 8 | Michigan | 11-1 | 563 | 0 | 8 | – | 8/15 |
| 9 | Oklahoma | 12-1 | 541 | 0 | 8 | -1 | 6/9 |
| 10 | Iowa State | 13-0 | 515 | 0 | 10 | – | 10/18 |
| 11 | Vanderbilt | 13-0 | 431 | 0 | 11 | – | 11/21 |
| 12 | Kentucky | 13-1 | 421 | 0 | 12 | – | 12/20 |
| 13 | Louisville | 12-3 | 365 | 0 | 13 | – | 13/22 |
| 14 | Iowa | 11-2 | 358 | 0 | 14 | – | 12/23 |
| 15 | North Carolina | 12-3 | 336 | 0 | 15 | – | 8/16 |
| 16 | USC | 10-3 | 305 | 0 | 16 | – | 10/19 |
| 17 | Ole Miss | 13-2 | 280 | 0 | 17 | – | 13/17 |
| 18 | Notre Dame | 10-2 | 232 | 0 | 18 | – | 13/23 |
| 19 | Michigan State | 12-1 | 177 | 0 | 21 | +2 | 19/NR |
| 20 | Ohio State | 11-2 | 168 | 0 | 19 | -1 | 19/NR |
| 21 | Baylor | 11-3 | 163 | 0 | 20 | -1 | 10/21 |
| 22 | Tennessee | 8-3 | 151 | 0 | 21 | -1 | 9/22 |
| 23 | Texas Tech | 14-0 | 123 | 0 | 23 | – | 23/NR |
| 24 | Alabama | 14-0 | 76 | 0 | 25 | +1 | 24/NR |
| 25 | Nebraska | 12-1 | 44 | 0 | 24 | -1 | 24/NR |
Others Receiving Votes
Princeton 31; Oklahoma State 20; Duke 14; West Virginia 12; Arizona State 8; Washington 6; Stanford 5; Oregon 2; South Dakota State 1; Clemson 1;
List Of Voters
The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 31 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The board for the 2025-26 season: Octavia Blue, Kennesaw State; Ashleen Bracey, Illinois-Chicago; Jen Brown, Queens; Dan Burt, Duquesne; Jeff Cammon, Saint Mary’s; Fred Chmiel, Bowling Green; Janell Crayton, Bethune-Cookman; Denise Dillon, Villanova; Carrie Eighmey, South Dakota; Dalila Eshe, Yale; Heather Ezell, Wyoming; Bill Fennelly, Iowa State; Aqua Franklin, Lamar; Ty Grace, Howard; Hana Haden, Georgia Southern; Corry Irvin, Chicago State; Renee Jimenez, UC-Santa Barbara; Chris Kielsmeier, Cleveland State; Mike Lane, NJIT; Amy Mallon, Drexel; Kristen Mattio, Northern Colorado; Mike McGuire, Radford; Kim McNeill, East Carolina; Dan Nielson, Utah Valley; Shawn Poppie, Clemson; Terry Primm, Siena; Samantha Quigley Smith, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville; Shea Ralph, Vanderbilt; Jonathan Tsipis, Western Carolina; Coquese Washington, Rutgers; Trevor Woodruff, Bucknell.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Oklahoma drops a spot in USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll
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