Womhoops Guru

Mel Greenberg covered college and professional women’s basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 40 plus years. Greenberg pioneered national coverage of the game, including the original Top 25 women's college poll. His knowledge has earned him nicknames such as "The Guru" and "The Godfather," as well as induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

AP WBB Poll Trivia: Streaking Top 25

Current Appearance Streaks of Women’s Teams in This Week’s Final AP Poll  – Mar. 12, 2018

By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsguru

1-469 Weeks Connecticut across 24 seasons began Preseason 1993-94
2-278 Weeks Baylor across 14 seasons began January 5, 2004
3-212 Weeks Notre Dame across 11 seasons began Preseason 2007-08
4-154 Weeks Maryland across 7 seasons began Preseason 2010-11
5-108 Weeks South Carolina across 6 seasons began Dec. 10 2012

6-74 Weeks Mississippi State across 4 seasons began Nov. 24, 2014
7-67 Weeks Florida State across 4 seasons began January 12 2015
8-59 Weeks Ohio State across 4 seasons began March 9 2015
9-56 Weeks Texas across 3 seasons began Preseason 2015-16
10-53 weeks UCLA across 3 seasons began November 30 2015

11-48 Weeks Louisville across 3 seasons began January 11 2016
12-34 Weeks Duke across 2 season began December 5 2016
13-31 Weeks Oregon State across 2 season began December 19 2016
14-23 Weeks Missouri across 2 seasons began February 20 2017
15 Tie – 19 Weeks Oregon began preseason 2017-18
15 Tie – 19 Weeks Tennessee began preseason 2017-18
15 Tie – 19 Weeks Texas A&M began preseason 2017-18

18 – 10 Weeks Wis.-Green Bay began week 10 of 2017-18
19  – 8 Weeks Georgia began week 12 of 2017-18
20 – 7 Weeks Stanford began week 13 of 2017-18
21 -6 Weeks N. Caro. St. Began week 14 of 2017-18
22 Tie – 5 Weeks South Florida. Began week 15 of 2017-18
22 Tie – 5 Weeks Belmont. Began week 15 of 2017-18
24 - 4 Weeks LSU. Began week 16 of 2017-18
25 – 3 Weeks Mercer. Began week 17 of 2017-18. 

Recent Departed Major Streaks Last Two Years

xx. Tennessee 565 weeks. Began Feb. 17, 1985 after 10-wk drought and ran across 32 seasons ending on 2/15/16.
xx. Duke 312 weeks. Began week 3 11/29/99 and runs across 17 seasons ending 1/11/2016.
Xx-312 Weeks Stanford across 17 seasons began Preseason 2001-02 ending 12/17/17
xx. Texas A&M 134 weeks. Began 11/16/09 2nd week and runs across 7 seasons ending final poll 2015-16
xx. Kentucky 132 weeks. Began feb. 1 2010 and runs across 8 seasons ending jan 2, 2017.



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