Women's-Top Twenty Five

<br>The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 22, total points based on 25 points for a first-place

Monday, December 23rd 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 22, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:

Record Pts Pv

1. Duke (41) 10-0 1,073 1

2. LSU (1) 9-0 1,018 2

3. Connecticut (1) 9-0 1,001 3

4. Kansas St. 10-1 898 7

5. Tennessee 8-2 854 4

6. Stanford 6-1 811 5

7. Purdue 8-1 791 6

8. Texas Tech 7-1 736 9

9. Vanderbilt 7-1 722 8

10. Arkansas 8-1 695 10

11. Minnesota 9-0 688 11

12. Notre Dame 6-1 616 12

13. North Carolina 8-1 575 13

14. Mississippi St. 8-1 481 14

15. Texas 6-2 438 22

16. Louisiana Tech 7-2 434 17

17. Penn St. 7-2 392 16

18. South Carolina 8-1 309 18

19. Oklahoma 8-3 248 15

20. Boston College 6-2 194 19

21. Arizona 6-2 173 23

22. UC Santa Barbara 4-1 142 _

23. Wis.-Green Bay 8-2 132 25

24. Georgia 6-3 92 20

25. Michigan 8-1 71 _

Others receiving votes: Villanova 70, DePaul 54, Colorado 52, Washington 39, West Virginia 27, Arizona St. 22, Auburn 19, Ohio St. 18, BYU 15, Massachusetts 14, George Washington 13, Cincinnati 12, Alabama 11, Xavier 6, New Mexico 5, Mississippi 4, Illinois 3, Richmond 3, Dayton 2, Baylor 1, Virginia Tech 1.