Nebraska keeps winning and climbing up the Top 25.The unbeaten Cornhuskers (21-0) moved past Notre Dame to No. 3 on Monday in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll. Nebraska trailed the Irish in the poll by 27 points last week, but were buoyed by victories over then-No. 10 Oklahoma State and 12th-ranked Texas A&M to move two points in front.”They are still undefeated and are beating some pretty good teams,” said voter Paul Zeise of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, who had Nebraska No. 2 on his ballot this week. “They’ve played a lot of teams that have been ranked in the top 10 and beat them all. They haven’t really had a close game.”Sounds like a familiar scenario to UConn, which remained No. 1 for a record 38th straight week. The Huskies (23-0) routed West Virginia and Louisville this week. Connecticut has won 62 straight games, all by double digits.Stanford remained second with Notre Dame falling to fourth — despite winning twice this past week — and Tennessee fifth.While there wasn’t much surprise at UConn’s continued success, the Cornhuskers didn’t even start the season ranked and didn’t crack the Top 25 until the fourth week of the season. Before this run, Nebraska’s highest ranking had been 12th in 1997.Nebraska, which will visit Kansas on Wednesday and Missouri on Saturday, has won most of its games by double digits with Miami being the only team to come within five points.The Hurricanes knocked off North Carolina this week, dropping the Tar Heels nine spots to 18th. North Carolina, which also lost to then-No. 15 Florida State, hasn’t been this low in the rankings since being No. 19 on Feb. 25, 2002.North Carolina may drop even further next week after getting blown out by No. 8 Duke on Monday night. The Blue Devils fell two spots after losing at Boston College. Xavier and Ohio State moved up to sixth and seventh. Despite a 33-point loss to UConn, West       Virginia moved up to ninth — its best ranking ever. Florida State jumped up five places to 10th.Baylor climbed four spots to No. 11, starting a run of five straight Big 12 teams. The Bears were followed by Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas and Oklahoma State.Georgetown moved up two places to 16th. The Hoyas were followed by Kentucky, which is in second in the Southeastern Conference. The Tar Heels were next, followed by Georgia and Iowa State — the seventh Big 12 team in the poll.Georgia Tech, Gonzaga, LSU, TCU and St. John’s rounded out the poll. After falling out a week earlier, TCU re-entered the Top 25. Wisconsin-Green Bay was the lone team to exit the poll.—————Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected]