Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25: May 5, 2021

ORLANDO, Fla. – North Carolina and Virginia topped the penultimate women's and men's Tennis Channel/USTA College Tennis Top 25 polls, respectively, as the NCAA Championships are set to begin this weekend.

 

The Virginia men were seeded No. 5 by the NCAA in the men's field, which saw Florida, Baylor, Tennessee and Texas seeded Nos. 1-4, respectively. The Top 4 seeds on the women's side synched with this poll's Top 4 of North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and UCLA.

 

The final Tennis Channel/USTA Top 25 will be released following the completion of the NCAA Championships on Tennis Channel's and the USTA's platforms, including the USTA’s Top 25 homepage. The USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., will host the team championships from the Round of 16 through the finals, May 16-22.

 

Each team's point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of 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. This week's poll includes 14 voters, making the maximum number of points available 300.

 

The voting panel includes: Casey Angle, former ITA Director of Championships; Virgil Christian, former USTA Director of College Tennis; Richard Croome, former sports journalist; Sonny Dearth, sports journalist for the Daily Press (Va.) and Virginian-Pilot; Judy Dixon, former UMass head coach; Alex Gruskin, Cracked Racquets; J. Webb Horton, former FGCU head coach; Granger Huntress, Texas College Tennis; Bobby Knight, College Tennis Today; Brandon Moglen, Tennis Channel; Michael Patrick, former Tennessee head coach; Lisa Stone, Parenting Aces; Caitlin Thompson, Racquet Magazine; Scott Treibly, USTA; Shannon Wrege/Dallas Oliver, Tennis Recruiting Network.

 

Men

Rank (Last Week's Ranking) – Points

1. (1) Virginia – 298

2. (2) Florida – 282

3. (3) Baylor – 269

4. (4) Tennessee – 268

5. (5) North Carolina – 256

6. (8) Illinois – 235

7. (6) Texas – 233

8. (7) Ohio State – 212

9. (9) TCU – 201

10. (T10) UCF – 190

11. (12) Wake Forest – 177

12. (T10) Michigan – 172

13. (13) USC – 161

14. (14) Texas A&M – 147

15. (15) South Carolina – 129

16. (16) Georgia – 123

17. (17) Kentucky – 105

18. (18) Arizona – 96

19. (19) Arizona State – 77

20. (20) Stanford – 75

21. (21) Mississippi – 64

22. (22) UCLA – 45

23. (23) Mississippi State – 40

24. (24) Pepperdine – 22

25. (25) NC State – 16

Receiving Votes: Oklahoma State 2, Texas Tech 2, Georgia Tech 1, Oregon 1, Western Michigan 1

Dropped Out: None

 

Women

Rank (Last Week's Ranking) – Points

1. (1) North Carolina – 300

2. (2) Texas – 288

3. (3) Georgia – 276

4. (4) UCLA – 256

5. (5) Pepperdine – 255

6. (6) Ohio State – 241

7. (7) Michigan – 219

8. (8) Baylor – 194

9. (9) UCF – 193

10. (10) Virginia – 188

11. (11) NC State – 187

12. (12) Florida State – 169

13. (13) California – 168

14. (14) Duke – 143

15. (15) Georgia Tech – 135

16. (17) Texas A&M – 109

17. (16) Northwestern – 107

18. (18) Stanford – 98

19. (19) Tennessee – 97

20. (20) Florida – 74

21. (21) Miami (Fla.) – 61

22. (22) Oklahoma – 52

23. (23) LSU – 44

24. (24) Kentucky – 27

25. (25) Auburn – 15

Receiving Votes: South Carolina 6, Arizona State 1

Dropped Out: None

 

Note: The Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings are available at wearecollegetennis.com.

 

Around College Tennis

 

NCAA Division I

• Complete NCAA team tournament brackets: Men | Women

 

NCAA Division II

• NCAA tournament regional brackets: Men | Women

 

NCAA Division III

• Bracket selections will be made on May 10: Men | Women

 

NAIA

• National Championship qualifiers: Men | Women

 

Pictured above: UNC senior Alexa Graham

Photo courtesy of UNC