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Oklahoma basketball: Sooner women crack the AP Top 25

By Chip Rouse

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 08: Araion Bradshaw #1 of the Dayton Flyers catches a pass during the second half of a game against the Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on December 08, 2021 in Gainesville, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 08: Araion Bradshaw #1 of the Dayton Flyers catches a pass during the second half of a game against the Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on December 08, 2021 in Gainesville, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images) /
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For the first time this season, the women’s Oklahoma basketball is ranked among the nation’s top-25 teams.

Both the Sooner men and women have been hovering the past couple of weeks just outside of the top-25 rankings, but this week the Lady Sooners make their first appearance of the 2021-22 season in the Associated Press Top 25. OU moved up three spots in the AP voting this week to take over the No. 23 position in the rankings.

Oklahoma moved into the top 25 following a 97-91 road win at Texas Tech. The Sooners, in their first season under new head coach Jennie Baranczyk, have won their last nine games, the team’s longest winning streak since the 2008-09 season. OU’s 12-1 start to the season is its best since 2006-07, when the Lady Sooners won 17 of their first 18 games.

Being a top-25 team is not new to Oklahoma basketball on either the men’s or women’s side, but it has been several seasons since OU women’s basketball has been ranked. The Lady Sooners last appeared in the top 25 in the opening week of the 2017-18 season.

Oklahoma leads the Big 12 and ranks second in the nation in scoring this season, averaging nearly 90 points a game. Taylor Robertson, who is now the career leader in women’s basketball at OU in made three-point shots, leads the Sooners with a 19.3 scoring average. Right there with her is teammate Madi Williams, who is averaging 17.7 points and Ana Llanusa at 17.1 a game. All three are seniors.

Since 2000, the Oklahoma women have been ranked in 68 percent of the Associated Press Top-25 poll. That includes 119 consecutive weeks as a ranked team from 2006 to 2012.

The Sooner women next play on Wednesday night, hosting No. 12 Iowa State.

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