Sooners Start Season in Top 10

Oct. 29, 2010

2010-11 Preseason AP Poll
RK	TEAM	PTS
1.	Connecticut (39)	992
2.	Baylor (1)	934
3.	Stanford	922
4.	Tennessee	886
5.	Xavier	818
6.	Duke	802
7.	Ohio State	759
8.	Texas A&M	664
9.	Kentucky	649
10.	Oklahoma	595
11.	West Virginia	579
12.	Notre Dame	560
13.	Georgetown	506
14.	St. John's	452
15.	North Carolina	420
16.	UCLA	382
17.	Texas	274
18.	Florida State	270
19.	Georgia	241
20.	Iowa State	195
21.	Maryland	134
22.	Iowa	121
23.	TCU	117
24.	Vanderbilt	109
25.	Michigan State	105

NORMAN, Okla. -- For the fourth time in five years, the OU women's basketball team will start the year ranked in the top 10. Oklahoma was No. 10 in the preseason edition of the Associated Press Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll released Friday.

Connecticut received 39 of the 40 first-place votes from a national media panel to earn top placement for the third consecutive season. The Huskies have been No. 1 for 44 straight weeks of the poll.

OU and UConn will square off Feb. 14 at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn.

Baylor received the other first-place vote and is second. Stanford, Tennessee, and Xavier rounded out the first five. Six through nine were Duke, Ohio State, Texas A&M and Kentucky. The Sooners meet Ohio State in Columbus on Dec. 1.

Other Sooner opponents in the Top 25 included Big 12 foes Texas and Iowa State, at Nos. 17 and 20, respectively, and TCU, who will host OU on Jan. 2, at No. 23.

Last season, after ranked 20th in the preseason AP poll, Oklahoma finished the year third after advancing to a second consecutive Final Four.

The Sooners begin their basketball season Thursday, Nov. 4, with an exhibition game against Oklahoma Christian. Tip-off at the Lloyd Noble Center is 7 p.m.

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