USTA/Tennis Channel College
Top 25: Feb. 27, 2019
Pat Mitsch | February 27, 2019
While the top of both the men's and women's Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 polls went largely undisturbed over the last seven days, victories on opposite coasts of the U.S. gave boosts to one traditional men's and one burgeoning women's contender.
On the men's side, USC took down rival UCLA at home, 4-1, powered by singles wins from Logan Smith (Sr., Carlsbad, Calif.), Riley Smith (Jr., Long Beach, Calif.) and Jake Sands (Fr., Los Angeles). That lifted the Trojans back to No. 11 (tied with Mississippi State), after they'd fallen to No. 14, their lowest ranking in the poll's three seasons.
For the women, UCF flourished under the spotlight of College MatchDay at the USTA National Campus to defeat Florida, 4-3, in front of a national television audience on Tennis Channel. The victory was UCF's seventh win in a row and put them into the Top 25 for the first time in 2019.
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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 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 – 300
2. (2) Wake Forest – 287
3. (3) Texas – 276
4. (4) North Carolina – 263
5. (5) Virginia – 249
6. (6) Stanford – 236
7. (7) TCU – 217
8. (8) Florida – 210
9. (9) Columbia – 209
10. (11) Baylor – 189
T11. (12) Mississippi State – 173
T11. (14) USC – 173
13. (13) Illinois – 154
14. (10) UCLA – 149
15. (15) Tennessee – 124
16. (16) Michigan – 117
17. (18) Florida State – 107
18. (19) Oklahoma – 82
19. (17) Notre Dame – 68
20. (21) Minnesota – 66
21. (23) South Carolina – 47
22. (25) Oregon – 41
23. (24) LSU – 39
24. (22) Texas A&M – 36
25. (20) Alabama – 30
Receiving Votes: Arizona 13, Tulane 5, Miami (Fla.) 3, California 2, Vanderbilt 1
Dropped Out: None
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Georgia – 300
2. (2) North Carolina – 288
3. (3) Stanford – 275
4. (4) Duke – 265
5. (5) UCLA – 251
6. (6) Vanderbilt – 237
7. (7) Texas – 227
8. (8) South Carolina – 208
9. (9) Michigan – 207
10. (10) Ohio State – 197
11. (11) Florida State – 167
12. (12) Kansas – 165
13. (13) Pepperdine – 147
14. (16) NC State – 130
15. (15) LSU – 129
16. (14) Virginia – 119
17. (20) Oklahoma State – 111
18. (17) Miami (Fla.) – 80
19. (19) California – 73
20. (22) Syracuse – 65
21. (T23) Kentucky – 56
22. (21) Northwestern – 50
23. (25) Washington – 42
24. (NR) UCF – 35
25. (18) Florida – 17
Receiving Votes: Boston College 15, Texas A&M 12, Tennessee 8, Auburn 1, Wake Forest 1
Dropped Out: Boston College (T23)
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 Feb. 25, 2019, with current college players in bold.
ATP
No. 9 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 36 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 71 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 84 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 90 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 152 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 154 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 207 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 248 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 265 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 286 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 295 Evan King (Michigan)
No. 296 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 25 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 94 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 139 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 156 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 179 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 196 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 221 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 233 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 304 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of the University of Southern California)