Healthy this year is the difference!Shoup-Hill is not the same player she was last year, for the much better.
A really good year would be finishing in the top 5 of the B1G and making the sweet 16, matching their best NCAA tournament performance in program history.What are reasonable expectations for this team?
The Big Ten has some really good teams but I think making the NCAA tournament as 6-10 seed seems reasonable. Could get a better seed but have to make the tournament this year
I keep hitting refresh on the AP site waiting for it to update. Going to be awesome to see both Illini teams potentially ranked again (wish the football team hadn’t lost - would have had all 3 teams ranked at the same time)7 teams in the AP Top 25 lost this week. We started at #29 and went 2-0, with a convincing victory against #19 Florida State. I speculate we move into the rankings.
We should therefore expect both the MEN and WOMEN to be there by end-of-day Monday!
I didn't have the women being ranked before the men on my bingo card, that's for sure.Illinois #23 in AP Poll
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AP Top 25 Women's College Basketball Poll
The official page for the AP Top 25 women's college basketball poll. Keep up to date and view the latest NCAA women's basketball ranking updates each week for the 2025-26 season.apnews.com