South Carolina women’s basketball is No. 2 in the AP preseason Top 25, one place behind UConn, which beat the Gamecocks in the NCAA championship game last season.
The Gamecocks got four first-place votes for a total of 740 points, and the Huskies got 27 first-place votes. South Carolina finished 35-4 last season, with more Quad 1 wins than any team (19).
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Coach Dawn Staley is in her 17th season with the program and has been to five straight Final Fours. Staley’s teams have been ranked in the AP Top 25 every week since Dec. 10, 2012, the second-longest active streak in the nation and ninth-longest all-time.
There are five SEC teams in the top 10, and eight overall. Of those five conference teams, the Gamecocks beat all of them during the 2024-25 season, splitting the series with Texas 1-1 in the regular season then went 2-0 against the Longhorns in the postseason.
AP preseason poll top 25
Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at lkesin@gannett.com. Follow her on X@Lulukesin and Bluesky@bylulukesin.bsky.social
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