Vanderbilt women's basketball has moved into the top 10 of the AP Poll, with a No. 7 ranking — its highest since 2007. The Commodores (15-0, 2-0 SEC) won at Arkansas to start SEC play, then beat LSU at home on Jan. 4 for the program's first win over a then-top five opponent under Shea Ralph.

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The Associated Press named its women's and men's college basketball players of the week for Week 9, and they are Vanderbilt's Mikayla Blakes and SMU's Kevin "Boopie" Miller.

The Associated Press national player of the week in women's basketball for Week 9 is No. 7 Vanderbilt's Mikayla Blakes.

The Commodores (14-0, 1-0 SEC) were unranked to start the season but have climbed up to No. 10 in the Coaches Poll and are ranked No. 10, nationally, in scoring margin. Vanderbilt is the highest-ranked SEC team on analytics websites KenPom and Torvik heading into its matchup with Alabama on Jan. 7 (8 p.m. CT, ESPN2).

Kentucky and Vanderbilt made major jumps in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 after four of the top-10 teams lost, causing a shakeup in the poll. This was the first week since the end of November that a new school had entered the top 10 this season.

Shea Ralph recruited Mikayla Blakes asking the guard to join her in doing the “uncommon thing” of building Vanderbilt back to the ranks of the nation’s best.

The Commodores are now up to five new additions for next season, the latest of whom comes from a fellow SEC program.