BATON ROUGE — LSU’s women’s basketball team finished fourth in the final 2006-07 USA Today/ESPN/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), it was released on Wednesday following Tuesday night’s national championship game.
The Lady Tigers (30-8), who advanced to the program’s fourth straight NCAA Final Four with wins over UNC Ashville, West Virginia, Florida State and Connecticut, finished behind No. 1 and national champion Tennessee, Rutgers and North Carolina in the final poll.
LSU lost to Rutgers in the national semifinal game in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday night.
This marks the fourth straight season LSU has finished in the top four after placing third in the final polls in 2003-04 and 2004-05 and fourth last season.
LSU finished 12th in the final Associated Press poll that was releas prior to the start of the NCAA tournament.
Rank School (2006-07 record) Points Last Week’s Rank First-Place Votes
1 Tennessee (34-3) 775 4 31
2 Rutgers (27-9) 727 18
3 North Carolina (34-4) 724 2
4 LSU (30-8) 678 11
5 Connecticut (32-4) 630 3
6 Duke (32-2) 597 1
7 Purdue (31-6) 569 12
8 Arizona State (31-5) 549 9
9 Oklahoma (28-5) 474 10
10 Mississippi (24-11) 434 not ranked
11 George Washington (28-4) 408 13
12 NC State (25-10) 404 20
13 Georgia (27-7) 387 14
14 Maryland (28-6) 368 6
15 Bowling Green (31-4) 306 19
16 Stanford (29-5) 298 5
17 Vanderbilt (28-6) 271 8
18 Ohio State (28-4) 201 7
19 Florida State (24-10) 198 not ranked
20 Baylor (26-8) 189 17
21 Texas A&M (25-7) 181 15
22 Marist (29-6) 137 not ranked
23 Middle Tennessee (30-4) 104 16
24 Louisville (27-8) 92 24
25 Michigan State (24-9) 79 23
Dropped out: No. 21 Marquette, No. 22 Wisconsin-Green Bay, No. 25 Iowa State.
Others receiving votes: Marquette (26-7) 69; Wisconsin-Green Bay (29-4) 53; Notre Dame (20-12) 50; Pittsburgh (24-9) 35; Iowa State (26-9) 26; California (23-9) 15; Georgia Tech (21-12) 13; Wyoming (27-9) 10; West Virginia (21-11) 8; Temple (25-8) 6; Wisconsin (23-13) 5; Nebraska (22-10) 3; Washington (18-13) 2.