{"id":857404,"date":"2026-04-06T19:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:12:15","slug":"ncaa-champion-ucla-finishes-no-1-in-womens-ap-top-25-ahead-of-south-carolina-uconn-texas-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857404\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA champion UCLA finishes No. 1 in women&#8217;s AP Top 25 ahead of South Carolina, UConn, Texas, Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XBDGIG52IRE6FA4UGC4GNFBRFM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">UCLA finished the season at No. 1 in The Associated Press women\u2019s basketball <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-college-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 25<\/a> on Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/march-madness-ucla-south-carolina-score-1b7d7aa969d6bded7ad857fa1d760e32\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">routing South Carolina<\/a> to win its first NCAA championship.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DA6UG6FWSBHCVNFW776Y6TGGXE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Bruins were a unanimous choice from the 31-member national media panel, ending the season as the top choice for the first time in school history. Their first No. 1 ranking came after they also beat South Carolina in November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCLA finished the season at No. 1 in The Associated Press women\u2019s basketball Top 25 on Monday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6030,116991,18234,339,7,49,48,9,5481],"class_list":{"0":"post-857404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bkw-t25-womens-poll","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116359355517627127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}