Hamilton, Cleaves showing what they got for Christmas

Sporting News, The, Feb 1, 1999 by Mike DeCourcy

Dropped out: No. 24 Southwest Missouri (13-5)

The TSN Power Poll is determined by Mike DeCourcy and TSN editors. Records through Sunday, January 24.

TSN's Power Poll Women

Rk.   Team (last week)       W-L

1.    Tennessee (1)         17-1
2.    Purdue (3)            15-1
3.    Louisiana Tech (4)    15-2
4.    Georgia (5)           17-1
5.    Connecticut (2)       16-3
6.    Notre Dame (6)        15-2
7.    Duke (9)              16-4
8.    UCLA (8)              15-4
9.    Colorado State (11)   20-1
10    North Carolina (10)   19-3
11    Texas Tech (7)        17-2
12    Rutgers (13)          16-3
13.   Virginia Tech (15)    17-0
14.   Iowa State (14)       13-2
15.   Old Dominion (12)     12-3
16.   Clemson (16)          15-3
17.   Auburn (18)           14-3
18.   Virginia (17)         12-5
19.   Alabama (19)          12-5
20.   Penn State (21)       12-5
21.   Ohio State (20)       12-4
22.   Florida (22)          14-7
23.   Tulane (24)           16-2
24.   Boston College (25)   15-3
25.   Oregon (--)           15-4

Rk.   Comment

1.    Tough SEC stretch coming at Georgia (Thurs.), at Bama (Sun.)
2.    School-record win streak at 13 games through Saturday.
3,    Next big challenge not until February 9, vs. Florida Int'l.
4.    Defeated Arkansas despite being held 22 points below
       average.
5.    Deepest team in the land now struggling to fill starting
        lineup.
6.    Defeated Seton Hall, St. John's by average of 39.5 points.
7.    Win at Chapel Hill last week came before record crowd of
        10,000.
8.    Undefeated Pac-10 mark could come to end Feb. 4 at Oregon.
9.    2nd-year coach Tom Collen heads a 4th-straight 20-win season.
10.   Home win streak ends at 19 with Duke dominating UNC's
        interior.
11.   Sophomore Katrisa O'Neal 14th in nation in steals (3.4 spg).
12.   No. 1 in Big East with 8-0 mark entering Wednesday vs. UConn
13.   Has had seven different leading scorers in17 games.
14.   Outrebounding opponents 42.2 to 33.9 boards per game.
15.   Has chance to climb polls with W vs. depleted UConn Feb. 13.
16.   Three of next four on road. The home game--Feb. 3 vs. UNC.
17.   Sparrow in SEC's top 10 for points (15.5 ppg), rebounds
        (7.6 rpg).
18.   With 4-3 road mark, happy to see Clemson, Duke visit this
        week.
19.   Williams, Vice, Carruth all in SEC's top seven for 3's per
        game.
20.   Has been to free-throw line 479 times to opponent's 258.
21.   Four of next six conference games are on the road.
22.   Washington's scoring up 6 ppg, rebounding up 3 rpg from last
        year.
23.   Fourth in the nation in field-goal percentage at 49.3
        percent.
24.   Freshmen Gottstein, Conway, Stepherson started in W vs.
        UConn.
25.   Next three Pac-10 games at home, including UCLA.

Dropped out: No. 23 Nebraska (14-5.)

TSN Power Poll is determined by Lori Riley, Michelle Smith and TSN editors. Records through Saturday, January 23.

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