THE SIDELINES : No Change Atop Basketball Poll

Louisiana Tech (9-0), Stanford (11-0) and Georgia (12-0) remained, in order, the top three teams in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll announced today, while Texas (8-1) and Tennessee (10-3) continued to hold fourth and fifth.

But elsewhere, teams moved like issues in the stock market. UNLV (11-1) hit a 13-year high in jumping from eighth to sixth, and Washington (11-1) reached an all-time high by leaping from 11th to seventh to mark the Huskies’ first appearance in the top 10.

North Carolina State (9-3) fell from sixth to eighth, only slightly ahead of ninth-place Cal State Long Beach (8-3), which was upset at home by UNLV. Iowa (9-3) fell from seventh to 10th.