UTC’s Chelsey Shumpert (25) dodges through the Spartan defense. The UNC Greensboro Spartans visited the Mocs in Southern Conference Women’s Basketball action at the McKenzie Area.The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team moved up two spots to No. 18 in the latest Associated Press women’s Top 25 poll released Monday afternoon.
Today’s ranking is the highest ranking in UTC women’s basketball history, surpassing the No. 19 ranking held for three weeks in 1984.
The Mocs (24-3, 12-0 SoCon) received 246 points and jumped ahead of Rutgers and Stanford, which lost to the Mocs in mid-December when the Cardinal was ranked No. 7.
This is the fifth consecutive week that UTC has been ranked by the AP this season.
The Mocs play at Mercer in a Southern Conference matchup tonight at 7.