USTA/Tennis Channel College
Top 25: March 6, 2019
Pat Mitsch | March 6, 2019
Another battle of Los Angeles again shook up the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 Rankings, this time on the women's side.
After the USC men beat cross-town rival UCLA last week, the Trojan women followed suit with a 4-1 victory over the Bruins to regain a spot in the Top 25, at No. 24, and drop UCLA from the Top 5 for the first time this season. The Kentucky women, meanwhile, rose into the Top 20 for the first time in nearly a year on the strength of home victories over Arkansas and Missouri.
The men's poll is marked by small movements this week. Oklahoma rose three positions into the Top 15 with wins over Kentucky and Florida State, while Texas A&M went 2-0 in its Alabama road trip, beating Auburn 7-0 and the Crimson Tide, 4-3, a victory clinched by sophomore and Houston native Hady Habib.
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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 – 288
3. (3) Texas – 276
4. (4) North Carolina – 264
5. (5) Virginia – 250
6. (6) Stanford – 235
7. (7) TCU – 224
8. (9) Columbia – 212
9. (8) Florida – 209
10. (10) Baylor – 195
11. (T11) Mississippi State – 183
12. (T11) USC – 166
13. (14) UCLA – 145
14. (16) Michigan – 138
15. (18) Oklahoma – 122
16. (13) Illinois – 117
17. (19) Notre Dame – 99
18. (20) Minnesota – 86
19. (15) Tennessee – 82
20. (24) Texas A&M – 67
21. (22) Oregon – 60
22. (17) Florida State – 49
23. (21) South Carolina – 37
24. (25) Alabama – 36
25. (23) LSU – 31
Receiving Votes: Georgia 14, Arizona 5, Tulane 2
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. (6) Vanderbilt – 249
6. (7) Texas – 234
7. (8) South Carolina – 218
8. (9) Michigan – 216
9. (5) UCLA – 207
10. (10) Ohio State – 196
11. (11) Florida State – 177
12. (13) Pepperdine – 153
13. (15) LSU – 139
14. (14) NC State – 127
15. (12) Kansas – 122
16. (17) Oklahoma State – 119
17. (18) Miami (Fla.) – 93
18. (21) Kentucky – 75
19. (19) California – 74
20. (16) Virginia – 71
21. (23) Washington – 67
22. (22) Northwestern – 53
23. (24) UCF – 49
24. (NR) USC – 41
25. (NR) Wake Forest – 27
Receiving Votes: Texas A&M 24, Tennessee 9, Florida 8, Texas Tech 2, Syracuse 1
Dropped Out: Syracuse (20), Florida (25)
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 March 4, 2019, with current college players in bold.
ATP
No. 9 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 38 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 62 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 84 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 90 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 153 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 154 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 217 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 243 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 264 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 287 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 296 Evan King (Michigan)
No. 297 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 25 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 83 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 123 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 153 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 167 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 178 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 219 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 230 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 305 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of the University of Southern California)