Women’s Top 25 is stable

Louisville climbed a spot to No. 6 in the Associated Press women’s Top 25 rankings, which remained mostly unchanged Monday with most teams on break for exams.

Stanford, UConn, Oregon, Oregon State and South Carolina top the poll. The Cardinal played their first game since moving up to No. 1 a few weeks ago by routing Ohio State on Sunday.

Stanford received 27 firstplace votes from the national media panel. UConn, Oregon and Oregon State each got one vote.

⏩ Sabrina Ionescu had a careerhigh 18 rebounds in her latest tripledouble and No. 3 Oregon routed visiting UC Riverside 8441. Ionescu also had 16 points and 12 assists in her NCAArecord 20th tripledouble, and second of the season . ... Megan Walker had 22 points and 13 rebounds, Crystal Dangerfield also scored 22 and No. 2 UConn held off No. 16 DePaul 8474 in Chicago.

⏩ Two Bay Area players shared the WCC’s Player of the Week honors. St. Mary’s Emily Codding had 27 points and 12 rebounds in the Gaels’ 8681 loss at Kansas on Sunday, and USF’s Mikayla Williams had 29 points and 16 boards in the Dons’ 8782 win over Sacramento State on Saturday. Figure skating: Olympic icedance champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, former world champion Kimmie Meissner and Olympic coach Kathy Casey will be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in January. Obituaries: Peter Snell, a middledistance runner from New Zealand who set world records in five events and became a threetime Olympic gold medalist in the 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Dallas. He was 80.

⏩ Bill Simpson, a pioneer in motorsports safety credited with creating equipment that saved many drivers from death or serious injury, died Monday from complications of a stroke suffered three days earlier, according to the Motorsports Hall of Fame. He was 79.