South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso celebrates in the fourth quarter against the Utah Utes at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Sunday. (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images) (Greg Fiume via Getty Images)
The top teams took care of business this week as conference games loom later in the month. Only Penn State, which entered the poll at No. 25 last week, and Washington State, which was ranked No. 21, lost to a team ranked lower than it.
The bottom of the rankings are the most interesting and will likely shake up again with so many teams earning votes in last week’s poll. Seventeen teams were in voters’ individual ballots last week that did not have enough points to earn a ranking in the final collective rankings. There are 19 undefeated teams in Division I and 32 with one loss.
I am an AP voter this season and will share my ballot weekly with team results and reasonings for movement in my rankings. (The full AP poll results are below.)
1. South Carolina (9-0)
The Gamecocks did nothing to lose their spot atop the poll, though they had another close call in a 78-69 win against then-No. 11 Utah. They can adjust their focal point to different weapons and they’ve remained poised in close, late contests. The win over Utah was their second against a team ranked top five in the latest NET rankings. Their résumé is what puts them above UCLA.
Elizabeth Frances and Joe Tapper in Manahatta at The Public Theater. Joan Marcus
Manahatta | 1hr 45mins. No intermission. | Public Theater | 425 Lafayette Street | 212-967-7555
Every history play has its moral. The Trojan Women: Victory in war brings shame to all. Richard III: Power may be gained (not held) by hypocrisy and murder. AMan for All Seasons and The Crucible: Convictions are worth dying for. So what’s the takeaway from Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta, which juxtaposes the 17th-century Dutch colonization of this island and the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis? Hard to choose one. White folks monetize, steal, and destroy everything they touch? Ownership is the root of all evil? Ancestors never die?
Maybe the clue is something Bobbie (Sheila Tousey) says to Luke (Enrico Nassi). She has leveraged a bank loan on an adjustable-rate mortgage in order to pay for her late husband’s crushing hospital bills. Debt-ridden Bobbie now faces foreclosure. Luke, like Bobbie, is Native American, working for his (white) father at the bank. He’s guilt-ridden over helping Bobbie into this financial quagmire. She’s philosophical about it. “[W]e need folks like you, to walk in both worlds,” Bobbie says. “You can talk their talk, walk their walk, but the moment you forget who you are, they have you. And then you’re walkin’ in one world, not two.”
It’s a powerful warning, one I wish Nagle had heeded. By running a Lenape family’s misfortunes through a dual-era structure, she prioritizes time-jumping echoes—between the “purchase” of Manahatta in 1626 and the housing market crash—over credible human drama. What it means, in practice, is an academic concept that looks good on paper, but yields shallow characters, wooden dialogue, and a perverse sense of historical fatalism.
Regrouping after a loss at Texas dropped them to 4-3, the UConn women’s basketball team righted the ship with a pair of wins over Ball State and North Carolina last week.
The Huskies didn’t move up in the AP Top 25 poll as a result, but for the first time since Week 3 of the rankings, they didn’t move down either.
North Carolina fell one spot to No. 25 after the loss, which was part of the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase at Mohegan Sun Arena. South Carolina remained a unanimous No. 1 in the poll after beating No. 11 Utah in an earlier game in the event.
UCLA, North Carolina State, Iowa and Texas followed the Gamecocks in the Top 25. USC, LSU, Colorado, Stanford and Baylor rounded out the top 10. It was the first time this season that the top 10 teams were unchanged in the poll after a series of upsets.
UNLV and Miami entered the Top 25 for the first time this season. The Rebels came in at No. 23 and the Hurricanes at 24. Penn State and Washington State dropped out.
CLIMBING CATS
Kansas State continues to climb the poll, moving up to No. 12. It’s the Wildcats’ best ranking since the team was eighth in the final poll of the 2004 season. Kansas State’s only loss came against Iowa in a Thanksgiving tournament, 10 days after the Wildcats beat the Hawkeyes. Jeff Mittie’s team doesn’t face another ranked opponent until a home game against Texas on Jan. 13.
Audiences attending New York theater are used to hearing the announcement at the beginning of many productions—that the venue they are sitting stands on land that was the original homeland of the Lenape people. In the program for the Public Theater’s production of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s 2013 play, Manahatta (to Dec. 23), the statement has grown in declarative emphasis. “The Public stands in honor of the first people and our ancestors…We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory. We honor the generations of stewards, and we pay our respects to the many diverse indigenous peoples still connected to this land.”
The play, directed by Laurie Woolery, takes place in two time zones and places—the year of the financial crash in 2008 in Manhattan and Oklahoma, and then 17th century Manahatta (popularly known as Manhattan Island), where Dutch settlers land, and—first by inquisitive charm, then by brute force—displace the Lenape. The play contrasts the echoing themes of the two different eras: the violent centrifugal spin of money, racism, trade, power, and identity. The company of actors play different characters with similar characteristics in both eras.
Present in both old and modern storylines are the Lenape—a people in the 17th century selling furs and at home in what we know today as Downtown Manhattan. In the 17th century, we see the incipient forces of capitalism destroy the Lenape in their own homeland; in 2008, we see a modern Lenape family in Oklahoma threatened with losing their home because of the financial crash.
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Daniella Ranieli scored 20 points and Lili Hintz added 10 as Pittston Area topped Wyoming Area, 41-11, in the Tigue-Denisco Cup girls basketball game Thursday at Pittston Area.
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The Town of Hebron ushered in the holiday season, on Dec. 2, with an afternoon of events centered around the Douglas Library.
“We put this on every year,” said Brianna Alessio, a program supervisor with the parks and recreation department, as she set up luminaria in front of the library.
Alessio said the event was a collaboration between the Hebron Historical Society, Parks and Rec, the Douglas Library, the Hebron Town Hall and the American Legion, with a train setup in the Old Town Hall provided by the Mohegan Pequot Railroad Club.
Scheduled for the afternoon were games in the parking lot of the library, crafts, a table with photo props, a holiday storytime inside the library, a visit from Santa, food provided by the American Legion, and the tree-lighting.
“At five o’clock we get to choose one child who’s at the event to light the Christmas tree,” said Alessio.
Inside the Old Town Hall, before the event officially started, folks had already gathered to view the model railroad.
“We’ve been coming here for about five years now,” said Mohegan Pequot Railroad club president, Tom Snyder.
Snyder said the club is capable of providing a setup featuring as many as 80 modules, though the 12 by 20 setup in the town hall was on the small side. The club has been around since 1980.
“We have a lot of fun doing the event,” said Snyder. “We enjoy trains, and the people who enjoy trains.”
The Hebron Snofolk also made an appearance for the Holiday Event. Eight in total, the Snofolk are sponsored by the Hebron Town Center Project. They were crafted by local creative folks several years ago, and are kept in storage for the warmer months, making their reappearance in time for the holiday season
Elizabeth Frances and Joe Tapper in Manahatta at The Public Theater. Joan Marcus 
Joan Marcus
