Princeton spent eight weeks as the No. 1 team in the Women’s Other Top 25 through the months of December and January, and now the Tigers are back atop the poll as the calendar has flipped to March.
Carla Berube’s team has won its last four games to improve to 23-3 overall and 11-2 in the Ivy League, which is tied atop the league standings with Columbia, who moved up one spot this week to No. 8 in the ranking.
Princeton sits 38th in the NET and 49th in BartTorvik. The Tigers are 5-2 in the first two
quadrants and 18-1 in the bottom two with no Quad 4 losses.
Fairfield held steady at No. 2 as the Stags finished the regular season tied atop the MAAC standings at 19-1. Richmond jumped back into the top three. The Spiders avenged their earlier season loss to Rhode Island with a dominant 72-46 win over the Rams. URI came in fourth.
South Dakota St. rounded out the top five. The Jackrabbits defeated both of the other teams in the top three in the Summit League in blowout fashion. The Jacks handed North Dakota St. its first loss since Nov. 16, 59-44, in Fargo on Wednesday. They followed it up with an 82-49 rout over in-state rival South Dakota Saturday.
The Bison, who was No. 1 for the first time last week, dropped to No. 6. It won the Summit regular-season crown for the first time in program history with a 15-1 mark. NDSU is 26-3 overall.
The rest of the top 10 remained the same with one slight change. George Mason came in at No. 7 once again to give the Atlantic 10 three teams in the top seven. Columbia and San Diego St. flipped spots at eight and nine. Rice held steady at No. 10.
Santa Clara and Idaho returned to the ranking after one-week absences. The Broncos placed 19th, and the Vandals were 25th. Georgia Southern was the other team to join the Other Top 25 after not being in the poll last week and came in at 24.
Here is the full ranking:
Dropped from ranking:
Murray St. – 19; Navy – 20; Davidson – 22
