Lady Vols basketball fell out of the Associated Press poll, ending a 31-week streak in the AP poll.
Tennessee (16-10, 8-6 SEC) was ranked No. 21 in both the AP Top 25 poll and USA TODAY coaches poll last week. The Lady Vols lost three games last week, falling to Ole Miss, Texas A&M and Oklahoma in a six-day span.
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Tennessee has two more ranked matchups to end the regular season, starting with a trip to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Lady Vols face No. 7 LSU (24-4, 10-4) at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Feb. 26 (6 p.m. ET, ESPN) before closing out the regular season at home against No. 6 Vanderbilt on March 1.
Tennessee started the season as a consensus top-10 team, ranked No. 9 in the coaches preseason poll and No. 8 in the AP preseason poll. It fell out of the top 10 after losing the season opener to NC State and dropped to No. 12 in both polls after starting 2-1.
UT had its biggest drop in the polls after its losses to UCLA, Louisville and South Carolina. It fell six spots in the coaches poll and five spots in the AP poll after losing to the Bruins, and it fell six spots in the AP Top 25 after losing to Louisville. The Lady Vols fell five spots in the USA TODAY coaches poll after the loss to the Gamecocks.
Tennessee ended the 2024-25 season ranked No. 16 in the coaches poll and No. 15 in the AP poll after starting Kim Caldwell’s first season at the helm unranked. UT was ranked as high as No. 11 last season, though it never cracked the top 10.
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The Lady Vols have been ranked in the AP Top 25 the most of any program since the poll began in 1976. UT has been ranked in 809 of the 901 polls.
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Cora Hall is the University of Tennessee women’s athletics reporter for Knox News. Email: cora.hall@knoxnews.com; X: @corahalll; Bluesky: @corahall.bsky.social. Support strong local journalism and unlock premium perks:knoxnews.com/subscribe
This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Updating Lady Vols’ ranking in college basketball polls after 0-3 week
