In a week that saw Iowa State face a pair of top 15 teams and split the result, the Cyclones dropped three spots in the AP Poll to No. 9.
The team faces four more games of Big 12 conference play in its chase to a regular season championship and No. 1 seed for the league’s postseason tournament in Kansas City next month.
Four Big 12 teams were ranked in the poll, including No. 5 Baylor, Iowa State, No. 11 Texas and No. 20 Oklahoma.
The Cyclones were also just a handful of votes behind No. 8 LSU – which beat Iowa State in December – and No. 7 UConn.
On Wednesday, the team will face off with Kansas – which received 39 votes and was the second team left out of the poll – in Lawrence.
The game is scheduled to tipoff at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+
Associated Press WBB Poll
Monday, February 21
1. South Carolina
2. Stanford
3. NC State
4. Louisville
5. Baylor
6. Michigan
7. UConn
8. LSU
9. Iowa State
10. Indiana
11. Texas
12. Arizona
13. Maryland
14. Notre Dame
15. Florida
16. Tennessee
17. Ohio State
18. North Carolina
19. BYU
20. Oklahoma
21. Iowa
22. Georgia Tech
23. Virginia Tech
24. Florida Gulf Coast
25. Georgia
Others receiving votes: Oregon 44, Kansas 39, Princeton 16, UCF 8, Washington State 6, Villanova 5, Liberty 3, UNLV 2, Toledo 2, Dayton 1
