Updating Lady Vols rankings in college basketball polls after 2-0 week

Lady Vols basketball moved up in the Associated Press poll after going 2-0 last week.

Tennessee (5-1) was ranked No. 14 in the AP Top 25 on Nov. 24. It was ranked No. 15 in the AP poll and No. 13 in the USA TODAY coaches poll last week.

The Lady Vols went on the road and crushed MTSU 85-41 on Nov. 20 before returning home and rolling past Coppin State 88-35. Senior guard Nya Robertson set a program record of 10 made 3-pointers in the win.

Tennessee has another week between games before getting back on the road for its trip to the West Coast. The Lady Vols will play No. 3 UCLA (6-0) at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Nov. 30 (4:30 p.m. ET, FS1) and Stanford (7-0) at Maples Pavilion on Dec. 3 (9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN2) in the ACC/SEC Challenge.

Tennessee started the season as a consensus top-10 team, ranked No. 9 in the USA TODAY coaches preseason poll and No. 8 in the AP Top 25 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.

Tennessee ended the 2024-25 season ranked No. 16 in the USA TODAY 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.

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 797 of the 888 polls.

Cora Hall is the University of Tennessee women’s athletics reporter for Knox News. Email: [email protected]; 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 rankings in college basketball polls after 2-0 week