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All for Tennessee Women’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Jan. 31: Lady Vols Rise

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 1, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee head coach Holly Warlick (left) and guard Alexa Middleton , right, watches from the sidelines during the second half against Kentucky at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee defeated Kentucky 72-65. Mandatory Credit: Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK
Jan 1, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee head coach Holly Warlick (left) and guard Alexa Middleton , right, watches from the sidelines during the second half against Kentucky at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee defeated Kentucky 72-65. Mandatory Credit: Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK /

The Tennessee Lady Vols flew up the women’s basketball SEC Power Rankings for Jan. 31, 2017 after their huge win over the No. 4 South Carolina Gamecocks.

As February draws to a close, the women’s basketball landscape in the Southeastern Conference took a dramatic shift after an amazing upset by the Tennessee Lady Vols. And it threw around everybody in the SEC Power Rankings for this week.

But the Lady Vols aren’t the only thing that caused that. They just made it clear that there is no longer a clear-cut Top Two. Now, the entire conference looks a lot more like it is on an even playing field, which bodes well for everybody trying to reach the NCAA Tournament.

Meanwhile, the bottom-two is no longer clear-cut either, as the worst team in the conference got an impressive win last week, and the second-worst team has found a bit of a run to move up.

As a result, we had to change everything in our SEC Power Rankings. Not one team is in the same spot they were in last week.

But the Lady Vols are primarily responsible for this despite all the upsets. Hey, that makes them very similar to the men’s Tennessee basketball team, which was responsible for throwing this week’s men’s SEC Power Rankings for a complete loop.

Who would have thought that both teams would do that the same week?

Well, we showed you how dramatically it changed the Vols’ standing among the men. Let’s take a look at what it did on the women’s side.

Here are the women’s basketball SEC Power Rankings for the week of Jan. 31, 2017.