USTA College Tennis
Top 25: April 18, 2018
April 18, 2018
"It's not how you start, it's how you finish," the saying goes. Despite the "in-between" for the Stanford women, the start and the finish could still be identical.
The Cardinal began the 2018 dual season as the No. 1-ranked women's team in the USTA College Tennis Top 25 poll, but losses to Vanderbilt, Texas and Florida in February saw them sink as low as No. 15. A sweep of Washington and Washington State on the road in the Evergreen State over the weekend, though, inched Stanford back up to No. 7 as the Cardinal carry a 10-match win streak into Friday's regular-season finale against Cal ahead of next week's Pac-12 Championship.
UCLA remains a unanimous men's No. 1, as the Pac-12 (UCLA, Stanford, USC), ACC (Wake Forest, North Carolina, Florida State), Big Ten (Ohio State, Illinois) and Big 12 (Texas A&M, TCU) stake claim to the real estate in the Top 10.
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The Georgia men found their way back into the Top 20, with home victories over Vanderbilt and Kentucky last weekend.
Each team's point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of 11 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. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can receive is 225. First-place votes were not tallied.
The 2018 College MatchDay schedule at the USTA National Campus concluded last Sunday with South Florida's victory over in-state rival UCF in a match forced indoors due to weather. The five outdoor College MatchDay events in 2018 drew a total of 5,340 fans to the Campus for an average of 1,068 – up from an average of 891 in 2017.
Registration is currently open for the USTA All-American College Combine for American juniors, which will take place at the National Campus June 18-21. Find 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 – 204
4. (4) Stanford – 200
5. (5) Texas A&M – 189
6. (6) North Carolina – 180
7. (7) TCU – 172
8. (9) USC – 153
9. (8) Illinois – 152
10. (11) Florida State – 142
11. (10) Mississippi State – 140
12. (13) Florida – 127
13. (16) Texas – 116
14. (15) Michigan – 110
15. (12) Oklahoma – 97
16. (14) Oklahoma State – 81
17. (18) Tulane – 70
18. (19) Memphis – 64
19. (20) Baylor – 62
20. (24) Georgia – 61
21. (17) Columbia – 47
22. (22) Vanderbilt – 32
23. (23) Tennessee – 27
24. (25) Virginia Tech – 19
25. (21) Kentucky – 9
Receiving Votes: Dartmouth 5, South Carolina 3, Duke 2, Middle Tennessee State 2, Virginia 2.
Dropped Out: None.
USTA College Tennis Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) Pepperdine – 223
2. (2) North Carolina – 217
3. (3) Vanderbilt – 205
4. (4) Duke – 197
5. (5) Texas – 188
6. (6) Georgia Tech – 181
7. (10) Stanford – 160
8. (11) Georgia – 151
9. (7) South Carolina – 148
10. (T8) Florida – 147
11. (12) UCLA – 139
12. (13) Mississippi – 124
13. (T8) Oklahoma State – 123
14. (14) Texas Tech – 122
15. (15) Northwestern – 94
16. (16) Florida State – 92
17. (17) Illinois – 81
18. (18) Miami (Fla.) – 77
19. (19) Kansas – 59
20. (23) Auburn – 44
21. (21) Virginia – 41
22. (25) Michigan – 24
23. (20) UCF – 22
24. (22) Kentucky – 18
25. (24) Mississippi State – 13
Receiving Votes: Baylor 10, Tulsa 6, Princeton 4, Arizona State 2, Syracuse 1.
Dropped Out: None.
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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