THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vanderbilt Week-By-Week in the Associated Press Polls
Year PS/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1983-84 - - - - - - - - - 20 - - - - - - 1984-85 12 16 18 - - - - - - - - - 20 18 17 16 16 1985-86 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 20 1986-87 - - - 19 17 16 12 11 11 14 14 13 14 18 20 18 1987-88 14 19 17 16 15 15 18 - - - - - - - - - - 1988-89 not ranked 1989-90 22 23 21 18 17 17 20 - 25 - - 25 - - - - - 1990-91 13 21 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1991-92 8 6 5 4 4 4 4 7 13 13 11 13 10 10 11 12 15 13 1992-93 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 5 3 1 1 1993-94 2 5 10 9 8 8 7 6 5 9 11 12 14 13 13 12 12 1994-95 12 12 9 9 9 8 8 6 10 8 9 8 7 8 10 9 8 6 1995-96 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 5 7 11 11 13 10 12 1996-97 9 6 7 13 15 14 14 11 8 7 11 14 16 12 15 17 20 20 1997-98 10 10 7 5 9 8 7 7 6 6 9 6 11 15 14 14 18 1998-99 20 19 18 20 r/v - r/v r/v r/v r/v - - r/v r/v - - 1999-00 - - - - - - - r/v r/v r/v - - r/v r/v r/v r/v r/v 2000-01 20 25 23 23 24 22 24 23 17 15 16 19 20 18 15 10 10 2001-02 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 6 8 7 6 8 6 6 6 6 5 4 2002-03 11 9 8 9 8 9 12 14 17 18 17 18 18 18 17 15 13 14 2003-04 - - - - r/v r/v 24 r/v r/v r/v 24 r/v r/v r/v 24 21 15 13 2004-05 13 14 13 14 17 16 15 16 17 17 23 21 21 22 20 18 19 18 2005-06 17 20 19 21 21 19 21 20 23 19 22 22 22 22 24 23 25 r/v 2006-07 16 15 14 12 11 12 12 12 11 14 14 15 15 14 12 12 13 9 2007-08 23 20 25 23 20 23 21 20 r/v r/v r/v r/v 25 25 23 21 21 21 2008-09 12 17 16 20 19 20 20 24 18 17 20 20 24 18 19 22 14 14 2009-10 22 21 18 18 19 18 17 r/v 21 r/v r/v r/v 25 r/v r/v r/v r/v 2010-11 24 23 24 23 - - - - - - - - - - r/v - - Release dates and the number of weekly rankings vary from year-to-year. A blank space denotes a 17-week ranking instead of 18 weeks. The AP Women’s Basketball Poll began during the 1976-77 season with the Top 20 rankings. The poll expanded to the Top 25 in 1989-90. During the 1994-95 season, the voting board switched from coaches to the news media.
Vanderbilt and the AP Final Rankings Since 2001
(The Commodores were not ranked in the final AP polls in 2005-06, 2009-10 and 2010-11. Final AP poll is released before NCAA Tournament. 2009 1 Connecticut 2 Stanford 3 Maryland 4 Oklahoma 5 Baylor 6 Duke 7 Louisville 8 Auburn 9 Texas A&M 10 Ohio State 11 North Carolina 12 Florida State 13 California 14 Vanderbilt 15 Pittsburgh 16 So. Dakota St. 17 Iowa State 18 Tennessee 19 Arizona State 20 Xavier 21 Kansas State 22 Florida 23 Notre Dame 24 Virginia 25 Texas
2008 1 Connecticut 2 No. Carolina 3 Tennessee 4 Stanford 5 Maryland 6 LSU 7 Rutgers 8 Texas A&M 9 Duke 10 California 11 Old Dominion 12 Baylor 13 Oklahoma St 14 Oklahoma 15 Notre Dame 16 Kansas St 17 West Virginia 18 Utah 19 Louisville 20 Geo Wash. 21 Vanderbilt 22 Marist 23 UTEP 24 Virginia 25 Ohio St
2007 1 Duke 2 No. Carolina 3 Tennessee 4 Connecticut 5 Stanford 6 Maryland 7 Vanderbilt 8 Ohio State 9 Oklahoma 10 Arizona State 11 Purdue 12 LSU 13 Georgia 14 Geo. Wash. 15 Rutgers 16 Texas A&M 17 MTSU 18 N.C. State 19 Baylor 20 BGSU 21 UWGB 22 Marquette 23 Mich. State 24 Iowa State 25 Louisville
2005 1 Stanford 2 LSU 3 Tennessee 4 No. Carolina 5 Baylor 6 Michigan St. 7 Duke 8 Ohio St. 9 Rutgers 10 Connecticut 11 Notre Dame 12 Minnesota 13 Texas 14 Texas Tech 15 Temple 16 Kansas St. 17 DePaul 18 Vanderbilt 19 Iowa St. 20 Georgia 21 NC State 22 Penn. State 23 TCU 24 UWGB 25 Boston Coll.
2004 1 Duke 2 Tennessee 3 Purdue 4 Texas 5 Penn State 6 Connecticut 7 La. Tech 8 Kansas St. 9 Houston 10 Stanford 11 Oklahoma 12 No. Carolina 13 Vanderbilt 14 Texas Tech 15 Baylor 16 Georgia 17 Colorado 18 Boston Coll. 19 LSU 20 TCU 21 Ohio State 22 Auburn 23 Michigan St. 24 Minnesota 25 Villanova
2003 1 Connecticut 2 Duke 3 LSU 4 Tennessee 5 Texas 6 La. Tech 7 Texas Tech 8 Kansas St. 9 Stanford 10 Purdue 11 Villanova 12 No. Carolina 13 Mississippi St. 14 Vanderbilt 15 Penn St. 16 So. Carolina 17 Minnesota 18 Santa Barbara 19 Georgia 20 Ohio State 21 UWGB 22 Arizona 23 Rutgers 24 Arkansas 25 Boston Coll. Geo. Wash.
2002 1 Connecticut 2 Oklahoma 3 Duke 4 Vanderbilt 5 Stanford 6 Tennessee 7 Baylor 8 La. Tech 9 Purdue 10 Iowa St. 11 Kansas St. 12 Colorado 13 So. Carolina 14 Texas 15 Old Dominion 16 No. Carolina 17 Texas Tech 18 Minnesota 19 Cincinnati 20 Colorado St. 21 Boston Coll. 22 LSU 23 Fla. Internat’l T24 Florida T25 Penn St.
2001 1 Connecticut 2 Notre Dame 3 Tennessee 4 Georgia 5 Duke 6 La. Tech 7 Oklahoma 8 Iowa St. 9 Purdue 10 Vanderbilt 11 Rutgers 12 Xavier 13 Texas Tech 14 Florida 15 SW Missouri 16 Iowa 17 Utah 18 LSU 19 NC St. 20 Colorado 21 Penn St. 22 Clemson 23 Baylor 24 Wisconsin 25 Arizona St. Virginia Tech
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