This season marks the 20th anniversary of the AP women's basketball Top 25 poll's shift to voting by writers and broadcasters. Before the 1994-95 season, the poll was determined by coaches and compiled by Mel Greenberg, who started it in 1976. Here's a look at some of the highlights over the past 20 years: STOP THE PRESSES: During the first season of the poll, No. 1 Tennessee was facing second-ranked UConn in an afternoon game on Martin Luther King's birthday. ''We thought why wait a whole another week when the No. 1 team could change later that day,'' said former AP Sports Writer Chuck Schoffner, who was in charge of the Top 25 when it first started as a writers' poll.
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