Lady Vols basketball up two spots in USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll

Tennessee (5-1) opened its 2025-25 women’s basketball season with wins against East Tennessee State, UT Martin, Belmont, Middle Tennessee State and Coppin State.

The Lady Vols’ only loss was against No. 24 North Carolina State in a season-opening contest in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Tennessee will next play Nov. 30 at No. 3 UCLA (6-0). Tipoff between the Lady Vols and Bruins is slated for 4:30 p.m. EST at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California (FS1).

On Tuesday, the latest USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll was released. The Lady Vols are up two spots and are ranked No. 11.

More: 2025-26 Lady Vols basketball schedule, TV, tipoff times

USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll top 25 rankings

Rank

Team

Record

PTS

1st

Prev

Chg

Hi/Lo

1

UConn

6-0

773

29

1

-

1/1

2

South Carolina

6-0

741

2

2

-

2/2

3

UCLA

6-0

710

0

3

-

3/4

4

Texas

5-0

686

0

4

-

3/4

5

LSU

6-0

639

0

5

-

5/5

6

Maryland

7-0

598

0

6

-

6/10

7

TCU

6-0

564

0

8

+1

7/12

8

Oklahoma

5-1

561

0

7

-1

6/8

9

Michigan

5-1

559

0

9

-

9/15

10

North Carolina

5-1

447

0

12

+2

8/12

11

Tennessee

5-1

399

0

13

+2

9/13

12

Iowa State

7-0

394

0

15

+3

12/18

13

Ole Miss

5-0

370

0

14

+1

13/16

14

Iowa

6-0

342

0

20

+6

14/23

15

Kentucky

7-0

337

0

18

+3

15/20

16

Baylor

5-1

321

0

10

-6

10/18

17

Vanderbilt

6-0

297

0

17

-

17/21

18

USC

3-2

296

0

11

-7

10/18

19

Notre Dame

5-1

211

0

23

+4

13/23

20

West Virginia

6-0

195

0

22

+2

20/NR

21

Michigan State

6-0

153

0

25

+4

21/NR

22

Louisville

4-2

128

0

19

-3

19/22

23

Washington

5-0

84

0

NR

+3

23/NR

24

North Carolina State

3-3

83

0

16

-8

8/24

25

Oklahoma State

6-1

51

0

21

-4

21/25

Schools dropped out

No. 24 Duke

Others receiving votes

South Dakota State 36; Alabama 23; Ohio State 19; Duke 17; Stanford 10; Nebraska 10; Texas Tech 9; Oregon 6; Richmond 4; Rhode Island 1; Princeton 1

List of voters

The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 31 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The board for the 2025-26 season: Octavia Blue, Kennesaw State; Ashleen Bracey, Illinois-Chicago; Jen Brown, Queens; Dan Burt, Duquesne; Jeff Cammon, Saint Mary’s; Fred Chmiel, Bowling Green; Janell Crayton, Bethune-Cookman; Denise Dillon, Villanova; Carrie Eighmey, South Dakota; Dalila Eshe, Yale; Heather Ezell, Wyoming; Bill Fennelly, Iowa State; Aqua Franklin, Lamar; Ty Grace, Howard; Hana Haden, Georgia Southern; Corry Irvin, Chicago State; Renee Jimenez, UC-Santa Barbara; Chris Kielsmeier, Cleveland State; Mike Lane, NJIT; Amy Mallon, Drexel; Kristen Mattio, Northern Colorado; Mike McGuire, Radford; Kim McNeill, East Carolina; Dan Nielson, Utah Valley; Shawn Poppie, Clemson; Terry Primm, Siena; Samantha Quigley Smith, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville; Shea Ralph, Vanderbilt; Jonathan Tsipis, Western Carolina; Coquese Washington, Rutgers; Trevor Woodruff, Bucknell.

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