USTA College Tennis
Top 25: April 11, 2018
April 11, 2018
Two programs from Texas have seemingly begun to sharpen their horns, as the Texas women and TCU men continue to ascend the USTA College Tennis Top 25.
The Longhorn women broke into the Top 5 for the first time after a week in which they beat TCU, 4-0, at home and took down Texas Tech, 4-2, on the road to move to 6-0 in the Big 12 and extend their winning streak to 11 straight matches.
The TCU men, meanwhile, have won eight straight matches to rise to No. 7. The Horned Frogs' latest victory was a 4-2 conquest over their Longhorn counterparts in Austin on Saturday, when junior Alex Rybakov (Coral Springs, Fla.), the ITA's No. 14-ranked singles player in the nation, improved his singles record in dual matches to 11-2.
Each team's point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of 11 voters (listed below). ADVERTISEMENT 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. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can receive is 225. First-place votes were not tallied.
The next and final 2018 College MatchDay at the USTA National Campus is on Sunday, April 15, as the UCF and South Florida men square off at 5:30 p.m. ET. Each College MatchDay will air live on Tennis Channel this season. Find the full College MatchDay schedule and more at the USTA's College Tennis page.
USTA College Top 25 - Men
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) UCLA – 225
2. (2) Wake Forest – 213
3. (3) Ohio State – 205
4. (4) Stanford – 199
5. (5) Texas A&M – 188
6. (6) North Carolina – 178
7. (9) TCU – 167
8. (10) Illinois – 154
9. (8) USC – 149
10. (11) Mississippi State – 148
11. (7) Florida State – 142
12. (14) Oklahoma – 123
13. (12) Florida – 118
14. (T15) Oklahoma State – 103
15. (13) Michigan – 101
16. (T15) Texas – 91
17. (18) Columbia – 86
18. (21) Tulane – 62
19. (20) Memphis – 61
20. (17) Baylor – 59
21. (24) Kentucky – 47
22. (19) Vanderbilt – 35
23. (25) Tennessee – 26
24. (23) Georgia – 12
25. (NR) Virginia Tech – 8
Receiving Votes: Duke 6, NC State 6, Harvard 5, California 1, Middle Tennessee State 1, South Carolina 1.
Dropped Out: Duke (22).
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) Pepperdine – 223
2. (3) North Carolina – 216
3. (4) Vanderbilt – 201
4. (2) Duke – 200
5. (6) Texas – 184
6. (8) Georgia Tech – 179
7. (5) South Carolina – 157
T8. (9) Oklahoma State – 154
T8. (11) Florida – 154
10. (10) Stanford – 147
11. (7) Georgia – 143
12. (12) UCLA – 128
13. (15) Mississippi – 121
14. (14) Texas Tech – 102
15. (16) Northwestern – 94
16. (17) Florida State – 92
17. (13) Illinois – 81
18. (18) Miami (Fla.) – 77
19. (19) Kansas – 52
20. (21) UCF – 44
21. (20) Virginia – 41
22. (NR) Kentucky – 27
23. (25) Auburn – 26
24. (T23) Mississippi State – 22
25. (NR) Michigan – 8
Receiving Votes: Arizona State 7, Baylor 5, Princeton 3, Washington State 2, Texas A&M 1.
Dropped Out: Syracuse (22), Texas A&M (T23).
Voting Panel: 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 and University of Texas Director of the Center for Research and Analytics); Randy Jenks (Universal Tennis Ratings); Bobby Knight (College Tennis Today); Dallas Oliver/Shannon Wrege (Tennis Recruiting Network); Michael Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s head coach) and Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces).
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