Tennis Channel/USTA College
Top 25: May 20, 2019
Pat Mitsch | May 20, 2019
ORLANDO, Fla. – The NCAA champions Texas men and Stanford women each ended their seasons with historic victories at the USTA National Campus on Sunday, ensuring their positions at the top of the Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll after seasons of remarkable achievement.
The Longhorns' first NCAA title, won over 2018 champion Wake Forest, ensured their season-long rise up the poll would end at No. 1, after finishing 2018 at No. 11 and beginning the 2019 season ranked No. 8. Stanford, meanwhile, won its record 20th NCAA title—its second in a row—and has now began and ended each of the last two years at No. 1 in these rankings.
The SEC ended up leading all men's conferences with six teams ranked in the Top 25, though the ACC and the Big 12 each had the most teams in the Top 10, with three apiece.
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The ACC led all conferences on the women's side, with seven teams ranked, while the SEC featured the most teams in the Top 10, with three.
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 who participated 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 headquarters.
Men's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (3) Texas – 300
2. (2) Wake Forest – 287
3. (9) North Carolina – 269
4. (4) Florida – 267
5. (1) Ohio State – 258
6. (6) Virginia – 237
7. (7) Baylor – 225
8. (12) TCU – 212
9. (8) USC – 198
10. (5) Mississippi State – 197
11. (10) UCLA – 179
12. (11) Columbia – 175
13. (T13) Tennessee – 150
14. (T13) Stanford – 146
15. (18) Oklahoma – 127
16. (16) Texas A&M – 114
17. (15) Illinois – 106
18. (24) California – 91
19. (17) Georgia – 80
20. (19) South Carolina – 74
21. (20) Florida State – 52
22. (21) San Diego – 43
23. (22) Michigan – 42
24. (23) NC State – 38
25. (NR) Arizona State – 13
Receiving Votes: Arizona 8, Oklahoma State 4, Penn State 3, Vanderbilt 2
Dropped Out: Arizona (25)
Women's Poll
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (3) Stanford – 300
2. (2) Georgia – 287
3. (1) North Carolina – 276
4. (5) Duke – 265
5. (4) South Carolina – 248
6. (6) Pepperdine – 234
7. (9) Vanderbilt – 224
8. (8) Kansas – 208
9. (12) UCLA – 195
10. (10) Oklahoma State – 191
11. (11) Michigan – 183
12. (7) Texas – 182
13. (14) UCF – 155
14. (15) Washington – 135
T15. (17) NC State – 117
T15. (18) Texas A&M – 117
17. (13) Florida State – 116
18. (16) Miami (Fla.) – 104
19. (19) USC– 98
20. (20) Tennessee – 60
21. (21) Florida – 46
22. (23) California –42
23. (24) Virginia – 41
24. (22) Ohio State – 22
25. (25) Wake Forest – 21
Receiving Votes: Princeton 5, Kentucky 3, LSU 2
Dropped Out: None
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