WVU Women Finish Season Ranked No. 21 in AP Poll

The WVU women’s basketball team ended the season ranked No. 21 in the AP Top 25 Poll, released Monday.

National champion UConn claimed the No. 1 spot, while runner-up South Carolina was No. 2.

POLL ALERT: National champion UConn tops final women's AP Top 25 of season, followed by South Carolina and UCLA.

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This ranking is the Mountaineers’ best end-of-season ranking since they finished No. 20 after the 2020-21 season. It’s an improvement over last season’s No. 24 ranking and also marks the first time WVU was ranked in back-to-back end-of-season polls since the 2015-16, 2016-17 seasons.

The WVU women (25-8) fell five spots from its last ranking, No. 16 on March 17, prior to the NCAA Tournament. The Mountaineers earned a No. 6 seed in the tournament and played at North Carolina in the Birmingham Region. WVU topped Columbia in the first round before falling to host UNC in round two.

West Virginia finished the season with 25 wins for the second year in a row, marking the team’s first consecutive 25-win seasons in program history.

WV Sports Now uncovered that head coach Mark Kellogg earned an automatic one-year extension in a contract amendment he signed last summer, putting him under contract with WVU through 2030.