Tennessee is still the top team, but the ACC has replaced the SEC as the No. 1 league in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

The Atlantic Coast Conference gained a fifth team Monday when unbeaten Virginia Tech joined the poll at No. 25. Three of those ACC teams – No. 2 Duke, No. 5 North Carolina and No. 6 Maryland – are in the top six.

ACC newcomer Boston College joined last week and is now 24th.

After having five ranked teams last week, the Southeastern Conference lost one when Mississippi dropped out following a loss at Louisiana Tech. The SEC’s ranked teams are Tennessee, No. 3 LSU, No. 17 Georgia and No. 21 Vanderbilt.

The Big East and Big Ten also have four teams in the Top 25.

“I think the ACC is an outstanding league this year,” said voter Tony Bleill of the News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill. “The recruiting classes they’ve had the last three years are starting to show up on the floor.”

Tennessee (10-0) received 34 of 46 first-place votes from a national media panel and had 1,136 points to lead a top nine unchanged after a week in which there were only 28 games involving ranked teams.

Three games had ranked teams playing each other and only two members of last week’s Top 25 – Mississippi and Stanford – lost to unranked opponents.

Tennessee hammered Princeton. 107-39. in its only game, but the Vols lost a player from last season’s highly regarded freshman class. Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood, the starting point guard and No. 4 scorer, quit the team and left school.