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.

Trades and big performances from college players are shaking up the draft board. High-scoring Maddy Siegrist climbs seven spots, and Brea Beal makes her debut.

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.