Tennis Channel/USTA College
Top 25: April 24, 2019
Pat Mitsch | April 24, 2019
College tennis' own version of postseason 'madness' began to play out last week, with three of the five power conference championship tournaments producing eye-opening results reflected in this week's Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25.
Georgia was unseated from the women's No. 1 ranking for the first time in 10 weeks, as South Carolina upset the Bulldogs in the SEC tournament championship. That allowed North Carolina, which claimed the ACC title over Duke, to ascend to No. 1 for the first time this season. Kansas (pictured above), meanwhile, made its Top-10 debut in this poll by winning the Big 12 tournament crown over Texas.
For the men, Mississippi State vaulted into the Top 5 by winning its second straight SEC tournament title, over Tennessee. Baylor won its first Big 12 tournament championship since 2014 to bump itself up to No. ADVERTISEMENT 7, while Wake Forest won its second straight ACC tournament championship to hold onto its No. 2 ranking.
Both the Pac-12 and Big Ten men's and women's championships will be played this week.
Each team's point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of 14 voters (listed below). Each voter ranked 25 teams from Nos. 1 to 25, with the first-place team receiving 25 points and the last place team receiving one. For control, the highest and lowest outlying ranking for each team on the ballot was removed. First-place votes were not tallied. The maximum points a team can earn this week is 300.
The full list of voters participating in the 2019 rankings are: Casey Angle (former Intercollegiate Tennis Association Director of Championships); Jordan Bishop (The News Press; Stillwater, Okla.); Virgil Christian (USTA Collegiate Tennis); Richard Croome (The Eagle; Bryan, Texas); Sonny Dearth (Daily Press; Newport News, Va.); Granger Huntress (Texas College Tennis); David Fish (Universal Tennis Ratings); Andy Katz (NCAA.com); Bobby Knight (College Tennis Today); Brandon Moglen (Tennis Channel); Shannon Wrege (Tennis Recruiting Network); Michael Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s head coach), Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces) and Caitlin Thompson (Racquet Magazine).
For more on the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25, visit the USTA collegiate Top 25 homepage.
Men's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Ohio State – 296
2. (2) Wake Forest – 290
3. (3) Texas – 263
4. (4) Florida – 246
5. (9) Mississippi State – 242
6. (5) Virginia – 241
7. (10) Baylor – 235
8. (6) UCLA – 234
9. (7) North Carolina – 211
10. (11) USC – 194
11. (12) Columbia – 181
12. (8) TCU – 169
13. (14) Stanford – 152
14. (16) Tennessee – 146
15. (15) Illinois – 140
16. (13) Texas A&M – 125
17. (18) Georgia – 89
18. (19) Oklahoma – 81
19. (24) South Carolina – 79
T20. (20) Florida State – 65
T20. (17) Michigan – 65
22. (23) San Diego – 47
T23. (21) Arizona State – 34
T23. (25) NC State – 34
25. (22) Arizona – 19
Receiving Votes: Oklahoma State 7, Notre Dame 4, Texas Tech 4, California 3, Penn State 2, UCF 1
Dropped Out: None
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (2) North Carolina – 299
2. (1) Georgia – 282
3. (3) Stanford – 277
4. (6) South Carolina – 264
5. (4) Duke – 254
6. (5) Pepperdine – 242
7. (7) Texas – 217
8. (16) Kansas – 212
9. (8) Vanderbilt – 204
10. (10) Oklahoma State – 178
11. (11) Michigan – 173
12. (13) UCLA – 168
13. (12) Florida State – 166
14. (15) Washington – 136
15. (18) UCF – 127
16. (17) Miami (Fla.) – 123
17. (14) NC State – 108
18. (9) Ohio State – 76
19. (21) Texas A&M – 74
20. (19) USC – 68
21. (20) Tennessee – 61
22. (24) Florida – 53
23. (22) California – 50
24. (23) Virginia – 38
25. (25) Wake Forest – 22
Receiving Votes: Illinois 4, Northwestern 4, Rice 3, Texas Tech 2
Dropped Out: None
Previous Top 25 polls
In addition to the polls above, each week this space will highlight the former and current American collegians in the ATP's and WTA's Top 300. The below reflects the rankings released on April 22, 2019, with current college players in bold.
ATP
No. 10 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 60 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 61 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 88 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 103 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 143 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 157 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 165 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 245 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 258 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 273 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 290 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 32 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 82 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 114 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 165 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 170 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 190 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 191 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 227 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 326 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of the Kansas University)
