After an entire regular season, the Oklahoma women's basketball team is back exactly where it started.
The Sooners are back just inside the top 10 at No. 10 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 that was released Monday, a day after the women's college basketball regular season ended.
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OU was also ranked 10th in the preseason AP Top 25 and never got lower than No. 16 in the rankings during the regular season.
The Sooners finished their regular season with a pair of wins last week over Florida on Thursday and No. 20 Alabama on Sunday. The victories extended OU's winning streak to seven games heading into March Madness.
That top-20 win is ultimately what catapulted OU three spots from No. 13 to No. 10. The victory also locked in the Sooners as the fifth seed in the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, while the Crimson Tide got the sixth seed.
The SEC Women's Basketball Tournament will tip off Wednesday, but the Sooners won't play until Thursday with a first-round bye, along with the other 5-8 seeds. The top-4 seeds get to rest until the quarterfinals.
It will be a loaded 16-team tournament with seven squads included in the latest AP Top 25.
Texas is the top team in the country, but got the 2 seed in its conference tournament. The Longhorns split the season series with South Carolina, and a coin flip ultimately decided which team got the No. 1 seed despite the Longhorns claiming the regular-season conference championship.
Th bracket also features four top-10 teams with OU's jump, also including No. 5 South Carolina and No. 9 LSU.