Tennis Channel/USTA College
Top 25: May 1, 2019
Pat Mitsch | May 1, 2019
Both the Big Ten and Pac-12 men's and women's conference champions were crowned over the weekend, though only one of those four teams moved up in the penultimate Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll of 2019.
That would be the USC men, who beat California in Ojai, Calif., to rise up from No. 10 to No. 8 (Cal's run to the finals saw the Golden Bears crack the poll, at No. 24). The Ohio State men defeated Illinois to win their fourth straight Big Ten tournament championship in Ann Arbor, Mich., but they were already ranked No. 1.
The Stanford women won their third straight Pac-12 women's tournament championship, over UCLA, but stayed ranked behind North Carolina and Georgia. The Michigan women's second straight Big Ten tournament championship, won over Illinois, kept them ranked at No. ADVERTISEMENT 11.
The final poll of 2019 will be released on May 20, following the conclusion of the NCAA team tournament, the final three rounds of which will be played at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
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.
For more on the NCAA Championships, visit the USTA's tournament homepage.
Men's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Ohio State – 298
2. (2) Wake Forest – 289
3. (3) Texas – 270
4. (4) Florida – 258
5. (5) Mississippi State – 251
6. (6) Virginia – 236
7. (7) Baylor – 233
8. (10) USC – 216
9. (9) North Carolina – 204
10. (8) UCLA – 193
11. (11) Columbia – 184
12. (12) TCU – 170
T13. (13) Stanford – 147
T13. (14) Tennessee – 147
15. (15) Illinois – 137
16. (16) Texas A&M – 126
17. (17) Georgia – 98
18. (18) Oklahoma – 87
19. (19) South Carolina – 75
20. (T20) Florida State – 65
21. (22) San Diego – 58
22. (T20) Michigan – 55
23. (T23) NC State – 31
24. (NR) California – 18
25. (25) Arizona – 16
Receiving Votes: Arizona State 9, Penn State 3, Oklahoma State 2, Texas Tech 2, Notre Dame 1
Dropped Out: Arizona State (T23)
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) North Carolina – 300
2. (2) Georgia – 285
3. (3) Stanford – 277
4. (4) South Carolina – 263
5. (5) Duke – 254
6. (6) Pepperdine – 240
7. (7) Texas – 224
8. (8) Kansas – 211
9. (9) Vanderbilt – 197
10. (10) Oklahoma State – 180
11. (11) Michigan – 179
12. (12) UCLA – 174
13. (13) Florida State – 164
14. (15) UCF – 138
15. (14) Washington – 135
16. (16) Miami (Fla.) – 117
17. (17) NC State – 113
18. (19) Texas A&M – 79
19. (20) USC – 73
20. (21) Tennessee – 63
21. (22) Florida – 48
22. (18) Ohio State – 47
23. (23) California – 44
24. (24) Virginia – 40
25. (25) Wake Forest – 23
Receiving Votes: Kentucky 4, Texas Tech 4, Princeton 3, Northwestern 2, Illinois 1
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. 9 John Isner (Georgia)
No. 57 Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA)
No. 61 Steve Johnson (USC)
No. 87 Bradley Klahn (Stanford)
No. 93 Tennys Sandgren (Tennessee)
No. 154 Marcos Giron (UCLA)
No. 168 Noah Rubin (Wake Forest)
No. 209 Chris Eubanks (Georgia Tech)
No. 254 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (Virginia)
No. 255 JC Aragone (Virginia)
No. 270 JJ Wolf (Ohio State)
No. 287 Collin Altamirano (Virginia)
WTA
No. 32 Danielle Collins (Virginia)
No. 83 Jennifer Brady (UCLA)
No. 114 Nicole Gibbs (Stanford)
No. 164 Danielle Lao (USC)
No. 171 Francesca Di Lorenzo (Ohio State)
No. 187 Robin Anderson (UCLA)
No. 189 Kristie Ahn (Stanford)
No. 228 Jamie Loeb (North Carolina)
No. 322 Maria Mateas (Duke)
(Photo courtesy of the University of Southern California)
