Women’s college basketball power rankings: Who’s the new No. 1 after Notre Dame falls?

Given how much I respect my colleague Sabreena Merchant’s knowledge of women’s basketball, even I had to take a step back this weekend and wonder if it were truly happenstance that she handed off the power rankings to me (a person who has acknowledged that my respect for the ACC was potentially not strong enough early on this season, mea culpa, mea culpa). The ACC sent a pretty resonant reminder this week to the nation: Hello, we’re still here and some of our teams are peaking in time for a domi

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Women’s college basketball power rankings: Who’s the new No. 1 after Notre Dame falls?

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Women's college basketball rankings: Texas takes No. 1, Notre Dame falls after losing double-overtime thriller

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