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

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…