Women’s college basketball power rankings: Louisville’s offense provides top-10 boost

Here’s something I haven’t said much in 2025: Pay attention to the Big 12. What a fun week for the conference as it moves up the pecking order ahead of the ACC.

The Big 12 delivered the regular-season game of the year over the weekend between Kansas and Iowa State, as Mackenzie Hare’s buzzer-beating heroics put the cherry on top of another iconic Audi Crooks performance — one that S’Mya Nichols did her absolute best to spoil. Expectations were sky high for the Cyclones last season, but they are finally delivering on the potential of the special 2023 class of Crooks and Addy Brown.

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Texas Tech and Baylor put on a show of their own, even if it was outshined by the game farther north. The Red Raiders kept their undefeated record intact by ending a 31-game losing streak against Baylor. They won despite the Bears’ seemingly re-creating a Disney Channel original movie in the final minutes: Baylor brought in a limping Taliah Scott (who had missed the previous game) to help its offense, and she looked like Heather Burge from “Double Team,” drawing in the defense before kicking out to Yuting Deng for the go-ahead score.

Unlike in the Disney movie, however, 52 seconds still remained, and Texas Tech regained the lead while Scott aggravated her injury.

Two more Big 12 teams exited the weekend undefeated. TCU was the least surprising of the bunch — kudos to coach Mark Campbell for already making sustained success commonplace at the program that ended a 14-season tournament drought last year. Olivia Miles and Marta Suárez had twin triple-doubles in their first game of the week (it was the third in a row for Miles), and they comfortably handled Kansas State in the Big 12 opener as Miles turned more scorer than facilitator with 29 points.

And then came Arizona State! It finished 10-22 a season ago but already has 14 wins and zero losses after beating Colorado on Sunday. Molly Miller’s squad has multiple power-conference wins, plus victories at Gonzaga and…

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Publish date : 2025-12-22 11:46:00

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