The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team stayed put at No. 17 in the latest Associated Press women’s Top 25 poll released Monday afternoon, one day after beating East Tennessee State to win the Southern Conference tournament championship.
The Mocs (29-3) received 297 points – up from 290 points in last week’s poll – and jumped ahead of Iowa. However, Stanford, which lost to the Mocs in mid-December when the Cardinal was ranked No. 7, moved from No. 19 to No. 14 after beating California late Sunday night to win the Pac-12 tournament title.
This is the seventh consecutive week that UTC has been ranked by the AP this season.
UTC wrapped up a second straight undefeated run through the Southern Conference regular season last week and claimed the league tourney title Sunday in Asheville, N.C., with a 61-56 overtime win in the championship game at the U.S. Cellular Center. Sophomore guard Chelsey Shumpert led UTC to the title-game win with 26 points.
Jasmine Joyner was named the tournament’s most outstanding player, and she was joined on the all-tournament teams by Shumpert, Ka’Vonne Towns and Alicia “Red” Payne.