Mechelle Voepel

As most teams gear up for conference tournaments this week, the Pac-12 teams (and Maryland) have made a statement.

The top three seeds stayed the same from the previous top-16 reveal by the NCAA women’s basketball committee: No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks, No. 2 Indiana Hoosiers, and No. 3 Stanford Cardinal. Now joining that group are the No. 4 Utah Utes.

Aliyah Boston and the defending national champion South Carolina Gamecocks lived up to their No. 1 ranking and remained unbeaten on Sunday, defeating No. 3 LSU 88-64, handing the Tigers their first defeat of the season.

For the first time in 30 years, Geno Auriemma’s UConn Huskies lost back-to-back games as they fell Wednesday to the Marquette Golden Eagles 59-52 in Milwaukee, three days after losing to No. 1 South Carolina.

The Atlanta Dream have traded former UConn star Tiffany Hayes to the Connecticut Sun in return for the No. 6 pick in the 2023 draft, the teams announced Thursday.

The Big Ten placed five teams among the top 16 -- including the projected No. 2 overall seed, the 23-1 Indiana Hoosiers -- in the first of two NCAA women’s basketball seeding reveals this season.

Jordin Canada, who hails from Los Angeles and started started 25 of 32 games for the Sparks last season, has decided to re-sign with her hometown team.

Dearica Hamby, who has lleged unethical behavior by the Aces in wake of her trade last month, said Wednesday she is confident “that people, the person, that said these things will be held accountable.”

Previously unbeaten Ohio State lost three games, sending it tumbling from No. 2 to No. 10 in the AP Top 25 women’s hoops poll, while the South Carolina Gamecocks remained No. 1 for the 32nd straight week.

Oklahoma Sooners guard Taylor Robertson broke the Division I women’s basketball career record for 3-pointers when she made her 498th 3-pointer against No. 18 Iowa State on Saturday.

Is the Big Ten closing in on its first Final Four in eight years? This week includes some of its most pivotal conference games of the season.

Shingo Kunieda, the most successful player in the history of wheelchair tennis, announced his retirement from the sport on Sunday at the age of 38.

Duke, North Carolina and NC State are all in the hunt in an ultra-competitive ACC. And when all three programs are doing well, the sport is stronger as a whole.

USC, the team of the week, upset Stanford to finally shake up the top of the rankings. Four teams -- Oklahoma, Michigan, North Carolina and Texas -- are new this week.

Former LSU Tigers women’s basketball player Seimone Augustus was honored by a statue that was unveiled outside the program’s arena, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, on Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova and last year’s Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins have progressed to the quarterfinals of the Adelaide International 2 tournament.

LSU cracks the top five, Duke and Maryland make their way into the top 10, and Arizona and Baylor debut in the Week 9 rankings.

UConn did not have the required seven healthy scholarship players to put a team on the court, forcing Sunday’s game against DePaul to be postponed.

LSU’s Angel Reese had a team record 28 rebounds and 26 points Thursday against Texas A&M, making her the first SEC player to have at least 25 points and 25 rebounds in a game in the past 20 seasons.

The South Carolina Gamecocks are No. 1 on the Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 poll for the 27th consecutive week, which is the fifth-longest streak of all time.