USTA College Tennis
Top 25: April 25, 2018
April 25, 2018
After winning their second straight SEC tournament championship over the weekend, the Vanderbilt women can add recapturing the USTA's No. 1 ranking to the accolades they're collecting ahead of the NCAA Tournament.
The Commodores returned to the top spot in the women's poll this week for the first time since February 7, their only week at No. 1. They ran through Texas A&M and Ole Miss, each by a 4-1 score, before defeating Top-10 Florida, 4-0, in the final in Knoxville, Tenn.
The entire Top 4 of the women's poll is different from last week, as Duke's 5-2 win over North Carolina on Friday helped the Blue Devils clinch the ACC regular season title and rise to No. 2, while Pepperdine's 4-3 loss to UCLA ended the Waves' four-week run at No. 1, and buoyed the Bruins up to No. 8.
The UCLA men remain a unanimous No. ADVERTISEMENT 1, as the Bruins enter this week's Pac-12 tournament at 23-2 overall and 8-0 in the conference. Twenty-two of the Top 25 men's teams will be playing in one of the "power five" conference tournaments this week, as conference championships for the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC are also set to begin in the coming days.
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.
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 – 214
3. (3) Ohio State – 204
4. (4) Stanford – 200
5. (5) Texas A&M – 187
6. (6) North Carolina – 183
7. (7) TCU – 172
8. (8) USC – 156
9. (9) Illinois – 155
10. (11) Mississippi State – 142
11. (10) Florida State – 135
12. (12) Florida – 125
13. (14) Michigan – 119
14. (13) Texas – 106
15. (15) Oklahoma – 102
16. (16) Oklahoma State – 81
17. (17) Tulane – 80
18. (20) Georgia – 62
19. (21) Columbia – 56
20. (18) Memphis – 45
21. (19) Baylor – 43
22. (22) Vanderbilt – 38
23. (24) Virginia Tech – 26
24. (23) Tennessee – 24
25. (25) Kentucky – 12
Receiving Votes: Dartmouth 11, South Carolina 3, Old Dominion 1, Texas Tech 1.
Dropped Out: None.
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (3) Vanderbilt – 223
2. (4) Duke – 212
3. (2) North Carolina – 201
4. (1) Pepperdine – 198
5. (5) Texas – 193
6. (6) Georgia Tech – 182
7. (7) Stanford – 168
8. (11) UCLA – 160
9. (10) Florida – 152
10. (12) Mississippi – 136
11. (8) Georgia – 127
12. (13) Oklahoma State – 125
13. (14) Texas Tech – 122
14. (9) South Carolina – 113
15. (15) Northwestern – 103
16. (16) Florida State – 94
17. (18) Miami (Fla.) – 88
T18. (17) Illinois – 62
T18. (19) Kansas – 62
20. (22) Michigan – 44
21. (21) Virginia – 35
22. (NR) Tulsa – 27
23. (20) Auburn – 17
24. (NR) Princeton – 16
25. (NR) Arizona State – 10
Receiving Votes: Baylor 9, Syracuse 9, UCF 7, California 5, Texas A&M 2.
Dropped Out: UCF (23), Kentucky (24), Mississippi State (25).
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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