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Lady Vols basketball up one spot in USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll

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Tennessee (16-7, 8-3 SEC) will play a postponed basketball game against Ole Miss (20-6, 7-4 SEC) on Tuesday at Sandy and John Black Pavilion in Oxford, Mississippi.

The game was rescheduled due to inclement weather on Jan. 26.

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Tipoff between the Lady Vols and Ole Miss is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST. ESPNU will televise the matchup with Tiffany Greene (play-by-play) and Meghan McKeown (analyst) on the call.

On Tuesday ahead of tipoff between Tennessee and the Rebels, the latest USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll was released. The Lady Vols are up one spot and are ranked No. 21.

More: Two players out for Tennessee-Ole Miss basketball game

USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll top 25 rankings

Rank

Team

Record

PTS

1st

Prev

Chg

Hi/Lo

1

UConn

27-0

775

31

1

1/1

2

UCLA

25-1

741

0

2

2/4

3

South Carolina

25-2

716

0

3

2/3

4

Texas

24-3

666

0

4

2/5

5

Michigan

22-4

622

0

7

2

5/15

6

Vanderbilt

24-3

612

0

5

1

4/21

7

LSU

22-4

607

0

6

1

5/12

8

Louisville

24-4

560

0

9

1

6/22

9

Oklahoma

19-6

490

0

10

1

5/16

10

Ohio State

22-4

482

0

8

2

8/NR

11

TCU

23-4

444

0

14

3

7/14

12

Iowa

20-5

438

0

12

8/23

13

Duke

19-6

422

0

15

2

6/NR

14

Baylor

22-5

364

0

11

3

10/21

15

Maryland

21-6

363

0

17

2

6/19

16

Michigan State

20-6

269

0

13

3

13/NR

17

Ole Miss

20-6

262

0

16

1

13/18

18

Kentucky

20-7

247

0

19

1

7/20

19

West Virginia

21-6

223

0

20

1

19/NR

20

Texas Tech

23-4

197

0

18

2

18/NR

21

Tennessee

16-7

156

0

22

1

9/22

22

North Carolina

21-6

147

0

21

1

8/23

23

Minnesota

20-6

67

0

NR

3

23/NR

24

Alabama

20-6

66

0

23

1

21/NR

25

Georgia

20-6

47

0

NR

3

25/NR

Schools dropped out

No. 24 Princeton; No. 25 Iowa State

Others receiving votes

Iowa State 33; Princeton 23; Rhode Island 17; Washington 12; Richmond 2; Rice 2; Oklahoma State 2; Nebraska 1

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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.

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This article originally appeared on Vols Wire: Tennessee’s top 25 basketball ranking ahead of playing at Ole Miss

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