NEW YORK—South Dakota women's basketball moved up three spots to No. 17 in Monday's Associated Press Top 25 after completing a perfect regular season run through the Summit League.
 
No. 17 South Dakota (27-2) finished 16-0 in Summit League regular season play to run the table for the second time in three years. In the 28 years of the Summit League / Mid-Continent Conference, only three teams have completed a regular season sweep and South Dakota is the first program to do it twice.
 
The Coyotes set a program record for regular season victories with 27 with the team's only losses this season coming to No. 1 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri State.
 
South Dakota has now tied for the most single-season appearances by a Summit League team in the AP Top 25 with 10 weeks this season.
 
With the Coyotes climbing the rankings in February, No. 17 becomes the highest the program has ever been ranked. It's the second-highest ranking by a Summit League team behind the 2008-09 South Dakota State team that reached No. 16.
 
The Coyotes are the Summit League Tournament opener at noon Saturday inside the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls. South Dakota faces eighth-seeded Omaha in the quarterfinals.
 
 
Associated Press Top 25
 

	Record	Pts	Prv
1. South Carolina (27)	29-1	747	1
2. Baylor (2)	27-1	713	2
3. Oregon (1)	28-2	700	3
4. Louisville	27-3	641	5
5. UConn	25-3	618	6
6. Maryland	25-4	615	7
7. Stanford	25-5	550	4
8. UCLA	25-4	541	9
9. Mississippi St.	25-5	489	10
10. NC State	25-4	459	8
11. Northwestern	26-3	450	14
12. Gonzaga	28-2	447	11
13. Arizona	23-6	372	13
14. Oregon St.	22-8	331	17
15. Texas A&M	22-7	293	12
16. Kentucky	21-7	259	15
17. South Dakota	27-2	254	20
18. DePaul	25-5	247	16
19. Iowa	23-6	232	18
20. Indiana	23-7	211	22
21. Princeton	24-1	153	23
22. Florida St.	22-7	142	19
23. Missouri St.	24-4	104	21
24. Arizona St.	20-10	75	24
25. Arkansas	22-7	44	-