BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s basketball team tied the school’s highest final ranking on Tuesday as the Lady Tigers finished the 1999-2000 season ranked No. 8 in the final ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.
The Lady Tigers, who reached the Elite Eight at the NCAA Tournament before falling to eventual national champion Connecticut, capped their season with a 25-7 overall mark. The 25 overall wins for the Lady Tigers tie for fourth-most in school history. LSU set the school-record by winning 11 Southeastern Conference games this year.
The No. 8 ranking for LSU ties the previous high set by three other teams. LSU’s 1983-84 and 1990-91 teams were both ranked No. 8 in the final Associated Press poll, while the 1985-86 team finished its season No. 8 in the Coaches Poll.
National champion Connecticut is No. 1 in the final poll, followed by Tennessee, Penn State, Rutgers and Georgia. Louisiana Tech is No. 6, followed by Texas Tech, LSU, Notre Dame and Iowa State. Other SEC teams in the top 25 include Mississippi State at No. 15, Auburn at No. 19 and Vanderbilt at No. 25.
In all, LSU played 12 games against teams ranked in the final coaches Top 25 poll and the Lady Tigers had a 6-6 mark against those teams.