Duke had two new teams right behind it Monday in the AP women’s basketball Top 25.

LSU is already the third team to be ranked No. 2 in the young season – the highest it has been since 1978 – while defending NCAA champion Connecticut also moved up a spot to third after beating Oklahoma in a rematch of last season’s title game.

No. 1 Duke (5-0) received 42 of 44 first-place votes from a national media panel and had 1,098 points after winning three games in the Virgin Islands. The last was a 74-72 overtime victory over Arkansas, which jumped from 17th to 13th.

No. 21 Arizona and No. 23 South Carolina made the Top 25 for the first time this season, while Iowa State dropped out to end a run of 82 consecutive appearances in the poll.

LSU (5-0) had 1,018 points and one first-place vote. The last time the Tigers were second was March 8, 1978. They won three times in the past week, with their closest game a 14-point victory over Florida International.

Connecticut (5-0) climbed two spots after winning three times in Hawaii, capping the trip with a 73-60 victory over Oklahoma. UConn had one first-place vote and 963 points.

Tennessee remained fourth, just four points behind Connecticut. Stanford moved up two spots to fifth, Purdue held at No. 6, and Kansas State fell from second to seventh after losing at Stanford.

Kansas State was No. 2 for one week. Tennessee was second in the first two polls.

Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Texas Tech completed the Top 10. Oklahoma (5-2) beat then-No. 11 North Carolina before losing to UConn and jumped five spots to 18th.

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Final Four rematch: Indiana’s men’s team can’t stop thinking about their loss to Maryland in the national championship.

Even though the rematch tonight on ESPN will not carry the same weight or even the same cast, the Hoosiers are eagerly awaiting their second shot at the Terrapins.

“That’s all we talked about this summer and during fall conditioning, that we were 11 minutes away,” Indiana point guard Tom Coverdale said. “It’s been our whole emphasis this year, to be as strong at the end as we are at the beginning.”

The memories still linger from that April night when the Hoosiers led 44-42 with 9:53 left, but couldn’t stop Maryland’s inside game in the closing minutes and the Terrapins won 64-52.

A lot has changed since.

Maryland (3-0) lost four starters, Indiana (4-0) three.

The Terrapins (3-0), coming off consecutive Final Four appearances, are ranked No. 9. Indiana, last year’s surprise Final Four entrant, is No. 10 this week after winning the Maui Invitational.

The game also will be played in front of, what Indiana coach Mike Davis hopes, is a mostly partisan crowd at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

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Yellow Jacket Returns: Clarence Moore has returned to practice at Georgia Tech after quitting the basketball team in August.

He sat behind the bench this week during games against Georgia and Gardner-Webb.

The 6-foot-5 forward approached coach Paul Hewitt a few weeks ago about coming back. The coach said if the other players agree, Moore could return this month. Moore started 29 games last season.