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Texas idles in AP Top 25 despite unblemished record and 82-point combined win margin

Even with a white-hot start to the season, the Longhorns did not climb in the new AP Top 25 Poll.
BySam Fariss
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Bryanna Preston, Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas
Bryanna Preston, Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas | Scott Wachter/GettyImages

So far this season, the Texas women's basketball team has not just won its games, but it has blown its opponents out of the water.

Sure, the Longhorns "only" faced the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights and the Northern Colorado Bears, but they have still advanced to 2-0 to start the year and have amassed a victory margin of a jaw-dropping 82 points.

Despite all that, the Horns did not see any movement in the new AP Top 25 Poll, staying at No. 6 in the country, with one team ranked ahead of them even though it had already suffered a loss.

Full women's college basketball AP Top 25 Poll after Week 1

  1. South Carolina Gamecocks (2-0)
  2. Michigan Wolverines (2-0)
  3. USC Trojans (2-0)
  4. UConn Huskies (2-1)
  5. Duke Blue Devils (2-0)
  6. Texas Longhorns (2-0)
  7. Louisville Cardinals (3-0)
  8. Vanderbilt Commodores (2-0)
  9. LSU Tigers (2-0)
  10. UCLA Bruins (2-0)
  11. Iowa Hawkeyes (2-1)
  12. Kentucky Wildcats (3-0)
  13. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2-0)
  14. Oklahoma Sooners (2-0)
  15. TCU Horned Frogs (3-0)
  16. Washington Huskies (2-0)
  17. Ohio State Buckeyes (3-0)
  18. Minnesota Golden Gophers (2-0)
  19. Oklahoma State Cowgirls (2-0)
  20. Maryland Terrapins (1-1)
  21. Ole Miss Rebels (2-0)
  22. Illinois Fighting Illini (2-0)
  23. North Carolina Tar Heels (0-2)
  24. West Virginia Mountaineers (3-0)
  25. Nebraska Cornhuskers (2-0)

The UConn Huskies, one of the most prominent women's basketball programs in the nation, already suffered a double-digit loss, losing 77-66 to the Michigan Wolverines. Despite that showing, the Huskies are still ranked ahead of the Horns, even as the Wolverines had their appropriate climb to No. 2 in the country.

Of course, maybe the Horns should be grateful for the fact that they did not move in the opposite direction, with similarly undefeated teams like the Ole Miss Rebels, Minnesota Golden Gophers, and Duke Blue Devils dropping in the poll, despite having yet to lose a game.

Horns have plethora of opportunities to prove they deserve better than No. 6

The best news is that the Horns and head coach Vic Schaefer made sure to build a truly difficult schedule this season, lining up a slew of ranked opponents before SEC play even begins.

So, Texas will have an ample number of opportunities to prove that they deserve to be ranked higher than No. 6:

  • vs. No. 17 Ohio State -- Nov. 22
  • vs. No. 7 Louisville Cardinals -- Dec. 2
  • vs. No. 15 TCU Horned Frogs -- Dec. 6
  • vs. No. 5 Duke Blue Devils -- Dec. 19
  • vs. No. 10 UCLA Bruins -- Dec. 20

With five ranked matchups on the horizon, and then the always-difficult SEC schedule still to come, the Longhorns have a handful of chances to topple ranked opponents and climb in the AP Top 25 Poll before conference play tips off.

Then, the Horns will have to play a gauntlet of an SEC schedule, including six ranked matchups:

  • vs. No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks -- Jan. 3
  • at No. 12 Kentucky Wildcats -- Jan. 10
  • vs. No. 8 Vanderbilt Commodores -- Jan. 17
  • at No. 9 LSU Tigers -- Feb. 11
  • at No. 14 Oklahoma Sooners -- Feb. 25
  • at No. 21 Ole Miss Rebels -- Feb. 28

Of course, we are still extremely early on in the 2026-27 season, and quite literally everything could change over the next four months before the NCAA Tournament begins.

So, maybe Texas should just be satisfied with a top-10 ranking for now, but have we ever known Schaefer and the Longhorns to settle for anything less than the best?

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