Women's college basketball Power Rankings: Hokies, Hawkeyes on rise after Champ Week runs

The final installment of ESPN's 2022-23 women's college basketball Power Rankings are here, and SEC tournament champion South Carolina finishes where it started. The Gamecocks were the wire-to-wire No. 1 team in Power Rankings this season.

In all, 28 teams have been in our rankings at some point this season, with seven — South Carolina, Stanford, UConn, Iowa, Notre Dame, Indiana and LSU — making the list every week.

These final rankings give us plenty to think about and debate. We reiterate this is a little different than Bracketology or the AP Top 25 poll; the Power Rankings try to reflect more of a weekly snapshot of who's hot and why. And some compelling conference tournament results had an impact on that this week.

The Virginia Tech and Washington State won the ACC and Pac-12 titles, respectively, for the first time. Iowa took over in Minneapolis and won its second consecutive Big Ten title. The Hokies and Hawkeyes made the biggest jumps this week in the Power Rankings, with each moving up five spots. Washington State didn't crack the top 16, but the Cougars are ESPN's team of the week.

The last Power 5 conference tournament is the Big 12 this week in Kansas City. And not long after that champion is determined Sunday, we'll know the NCAA tournament field when the bracket is revealed (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).

Caitlin Clark dominates with 30 points, 17 assists and 10 rebounds as Iowa defeats Ohio State to win the Big Ten championship.

The junior guard earns the honor for the third time this season. It comes after a Big Ten tournament tour-de-force in which Clark had 74 points, 30 assists and 23 rebounds in the Hawkeyes' three victories. She had the first triple-double in Big Ten championship game history and was