The Maryland women's basketball team's upset of then-No. 5 North Carolina on Sunday night vaulted the Terps from 21st to 15th in this week's Associated Press poll, which was released yesterday.
Maryland (11-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) stunned the Tar Heels, 92-77, and earned its highest ranking since the school finished 11th in the final poll of the 1992-93 season.
North Carolina (12-2, 0-1) fell into a tie for ninth with Michigan State.
The Terps also swept the weekly ACC honors, with the conference announcing yesterday that sophomore guard Shay Doron was named Player of the Week and freshman center Crystal Langhorne was selected Rookie of the Week.
Doron scored a career-high 37 points against the Tar Heels, the third-highest total in school history. The Great Neck, N.Y., native also grabbed seven rebounds and collected five steals for the first ACC Player of the Week honor in her two-year career at Maryland.
Langhorne posted 23 points and a career-high 14 rebounds Sunday night. This is the second straight week the post player from Willingboro, N.J., has won Rookie of the Week.
Doron and Langhorne are the second pair of Terps to sweep ACC honors in the same week. Kalisa Davis and Tiffany Brown won Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, on Feb. 24, 1997.
Women's AP Top 25
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
No. School Record Points Prev.
1. Duke (22) 15-1 1,093 2
2. Baylor (12) 12-1 1,063 3
3. LSU (7) 14-1 1,055 1
4. Rutgers (4) 10-2 920 14
5. Ohio State 14-2 885 9
6. Stanford 13-2 867 8
7. Notre Dame 13-2 835 4
8. Tennessee 10-3 782 10
9. Michigan State 13-2 757 6
9. North Carolina 12-2 757 5
11. Minnesota 13-2 671 11
12. Texas 8-4 670 7
13. Texas Tech 11-2 607 12
14. Boston College 11-1 551 13
15. Maryland 11-2 434 21
16. Connecticut 8-4 420 15
17. Vanderbilt 12-2 375 16
18. Georgia 12-4 361 17
19. UCLA 11-3 286 22
20. Purdue 10-4 198 24
21. Iowa 13-2 181 18
22. DePaul 11-3 168 19
23. Kansas State 10-3 166 20
24. Iowa State 12-1 156 -
25. Virginia Tech 11-3 86 25
Others receiving votes: Arizona State 75, Villanova 36, New Mexico 31, Richmond 31, Temple 22, Penn State 18, N.C. State 16, Arizona 13, Oklahoma 8, Wis.-Green Bay 7, Houston 6, Marquette 6, Gonzaga 3, Virginia 3, Charlotte 2, Georgia Tech 2, Florida State 1, Utah 1.
