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Charlie Creme, ESPN.com 5y

Louisville remains a No. 1 seed despite loss to Miami

Women's College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals

The NCAA women's basketball selection committee revealed its top 16 teams just a week ago. Since then, two of the teams the committee designated as No. 1 seeds have lost. Both fell at home.

That's the kind of season it has been in women's college basketball. No one is safe.

On Thursday, Missouri went into Starkville and upset Mississippi State 75-67, holding the second-highest scoring offense in the country 20 points below its average. Miami stunned Louisville on Sunday, completely outplaying the Cardinals in the fourth quarter.

So where does that leave the top teams in the bracket?

The Bulldogs slip to a No. 2 seed, but their 92-64 blowout win at Texas A&M on Sunday indicates Mississippi State's drop could be temporary. The Bulldogs are still in the hunt for a No. 1 seed.

The tricky part is determining the final two spots on the top line, especially following Louisville's stumble. Baylor and Oregon look firm as the Nos. 1 and 2 teams overall -- the Ducks play at Oregon State on Monday (ESPN2, 9 p.m. ET). Louisville, UConn and Notre Dame are competing for the other No. 1 seeds, and they're profiles are nearly impossible to decipher. The fact they each have a win and a loss to each other makes the evaluation difficult. But one of them has to be a No. 2 seed.

Through Sunday's games, that team is still Notre Dame. Louisville gets the nod because the committee established the Cardinals as the No. 2 overall team a week ago. Notre Dame was No. 6. Louisville's hold on a No. 1 seed took a hit Sunday, but dropping the Cardinals to No. 5 overall seems too much at this point with just the loss to a good Miami team.

And in order for Notre Dame and Louisville to both be No. 1 seeds, the Huskies would be left out. But the committee had UConn at No. 5, ahead of Notre Dame, in its reveal, and nothing has changed as far as those two teams are concerned.

But keep an eye on Notre Dame. Should the Fighting Irish beat NC State on Monday (ESPN2, 7 p.m. ET), that would give Notre Dame four RPI top-10 wins. The Huskies and Cardinals have combined for just one. And UConn also has significantly fewer top-50 wins than the other two, and not as strong a schedule.

Determining the No. 1 seeds right now is not easy -- and it's a decision the committee is probably happy it doesn't have to make just yet.

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