Utah Women’s Basketball Drops In AP Top 25 After Colorado Buffaloes Loss
Jan 1, 2024, 10:51 AM
SALT LAKE CITY – Lynne Roberts’ Utah Utes (10-3, 0-1 in conference play) dropped a few more spots to No. 15 in the most recent AP Top 25 poll after a loss to No. 8 Colorado last week to open Pac-12 play.
The latest AP Top 25 poll was released on Monday, January 1.
Utah opened the season ranked No. 5. It was the highest preseason ranking in program history and the first time since 2005 that the Utes were ranked to begin a season.
Final Score:
Utah – 65
Colorado – 76#goutes pic.twitter.com/jxJQSFZDBE— Utah Women’s Basketball (@UTAHWBB) December 30, 2023
Week Nine AP Top 25: January 1, 2024
- South Carolina Gamecocks (12-0) SEC
- UCLA Bruins (12-0) Pac-12
- North Carolina State Wolfpack (13-0) ACC
- Iowa Hawkeyes (13-1) Big Ten
- Colorado Buffaloes (11-1) Pac-12
- Baylor Bears (12-0) Big 12
- LSU (13-1) SEC
- Stanford Cardinal (13-1) Pac-12
- USC Trojans (10-1) Pac-12
- Texas Longhorns (13-1) Big 12
- Kansas State (13-1) Big 12
- UConn Huskies (10-3) Big East
- Virgina Tech (10-2) ACC
- Indiana Hoosiers (11-1) Big 10
- Utah Utes (10-3) Pac-12
- Notre Dame (9-2) ACC
- Louisville Cardinal (12-2) ACC
- Gonzaga Bulldogs (13-2) WCC
- Marquette Golden Eagles (12-1) Big East
- Ohio State (10-3) Big 10
- Creighton Blue Jays (10-2) Big East
- Florida State Seminoles (11-3) ACC
- TCU Horned Frogs (14-0) Big 12
- West Virginia Mountaineers (12-0) Big 12
- Syracuse Orange (11-1) ACC
POLL ALERT: South Carolina still No. 1 in AP women’s basketball poll, though no longer unanimous; Syracuse enters AP Top 25.
Full poll: https://t.co/ZpzgqczgyX pic.twitter.com/p2cnhP9bwj
— AP Top 25 (@AP_Top25) January 1, 2024
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The Utes will continue their road tour to start Pac-12 play this week, taking on the Arizona schools.
Utah will start with Arizona State on Friday, January 5 with tip-off set for 7:00 pm MT. On Sunday, January 7, the Utes will turn their attention to Arizona with a 12:00 pm MT tip.
Both games can be viewed on Pac-12 Networks.
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