Where OU women's basketball is ranked in Week 9 polls after 2-0 SEC start

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Coach Jennie Baranczyk and the OU women's basketball team are ranked in the top five for the first time since the final poll of the 2008-09 season.

The Sooners (14-1, 2-0) dominated Texas A&M and Mississippi State in the first two games of SEC play, taking down the Aggies 72-50 and the Bulldogs 95-47. OU will take on No. 18 Ole Miss on Thursday.

OU ranks second nationally in scoring offense at 94.5 points per game and leads the country in field goal percentage defense (29.8%) and rebounds per game (53.1).

Here's how the Sooners are ranked going into Week 9:

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College women's basketball rankings, Week 9

AP Poll

1. UConn: 15-0; 796 points; Same (28)
2. Texas: 17-0; 772 points; Same (4)
3. South Carolina: 15-1; 725 points; Same
4. UCLA: 14-1; 715 points; Same
5. Oklahoma: 14-1; 654 points; Up three
6. Kentucky: 15-1; 625 points; Up five
7. Vanderbilt: 15-0; 621 points; Up five
8. Maryland: 15-1; 537 points, Down one
9. Michigan: 11-2; 517 points; Down three
10. Louisville: 14-3; 485 points; Up three
11. Iowa State: 14-1; 462 points; Down one
12. LSU: 14-2; 456 points; Down seven
13. TCU: 14-1; 454 points; Down five
14. Iowa: 12-2; 403 points; Same
15. Michigan State: 14-1; 280 points; Up nine
16. Baylor: 13-3; 278 points; Up six
17. Texas Tech: 16-0; 263 points; Up four
18. Ole Miss: 14-3; 243 points; Down three
19. Ohio State: 13-2; 237 points; Same
20. Tennessee: 10-3; 162 points; Up three
21. USC: 10-4; 150 points; Down four
22. North Carolina: 13-4; 129 points; Down six
23. Washington: 12-2; 117 points; Same
24. Princeton: 13-1; 91 points; Up one
25. Nebraska: 13-2; 65 points; Down five

Others receiving votes: Illinois 58, Notre Dame 27, Stanford 25, NC State 22, Alabama 13, West Virginia 9, Georgia 5, Duke 3, Oklahoma St. 1.

This story will be updated.

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