USTA College Tennis
Top 25: April 4, 2018
April 4, 2018
Both the men's and women's No. 1 rankings in this week's USTA College Tennis Top 25 reside in Southern California, as the unanimous UCLA men joined the Pepperdine women atop this week's polls.
The Bruins solidified their No. 1 spot in the rankings and in the Pac 12 with 4-0 home victories over Stanford and Cal over the weekend, on the strength of the top-three singles trio of senior Martin Redlicki (Chicago), sophomore Evan Zhu (Irvine, Calif.) and freshman Keegan Smith (San Diego). UCLA also has Florida to thank for knocking off previous No. 1 Wake Forest, 4-3, in Winston-Salem, a match clinched by freshman South Carolina native Oliver Crawford's victory over senior Skander Mansouri at No. 3 singles.
The Georgia Tech women's loss at Syracuse over the weekend shook up the back end of the women's Top 10. ADVERTISEMENT The timing was convenient for Texas, which jumped up to No. 6 on the heels of its 4-0 victory over Florida on College MatchDay at the USTA National Campus. The biggest mover of the week in the women's poll was Miami, which rose into the Top 20 after a 4-3 win over Wake Forest.
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 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. (2) UCLA – 225
2. (1) Wake Forest – 212
3. (4) Ohio State – 203
4. (3) Stanford – 198
5. (5) Texas A&M – 189
6. (6) North Carolina – 174
7. (7) Florida State – 172
8. (8) USC – 155
9. (9) TCU – 153
10. (10) Illinois – 149
11. (12) Mississippi State – 140
12. (14) Florida – 126
13. (13) Michigan – 120
14. (15) Oklahoma – 100
T15. (11) Texas – 94
T15. (16) Oklahoma State – 94
17. (17) Baylor – 77
18. (18) Columbia – 74
19. (19) Vanderbilt – 57
20. (20) Memphis – 47
21. (T24) Tulane – 46
22. (22) Duke – 34
23. (21) Georgia – 28
24. (23) Kentucky – 22
25. (T24) Tennessee - 12
Receiving Votes: South Carolina 9, California 1.
Dropped Out: None
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) Pepperdine – 222
2. (2) Duke – 214
3. (3) North Carolina – 211
4. (5) Vanderbilt – 198
5. (6) South Carolina – 184
6. (8) Texas – 172
7. (7) Georgia – 169
8. (4) Georgia Tech – 161
9. (10) Oklahoma State – 148
10. (11) Stanford – 146
11. (9) Florida – 135
12. (12) UCLA – 124
13. (T13) Illinois – 123
14. (T13) Texas Tech – 114
15. (16) Mississippi – 99
16. (15) Northwestern – 88
17. (17) Florida State – 85
18. (23) Miami (Fla.) – 58
19. (22) Kansas – 41
20. (21) Virginia – 31
21. (NR) UCF – 28
22. (NR) Syracuse – 27
T23. (20) Mississippi State – 23
T23. (25) Texas A&M – 23
25. (T18) Auburn – 20
Receiving Votes: Kentucky 13, Wake Forest 13, Washington State 7, Baylor 3, LSU3, Arizona State 2, Michigan 2, Oregon 1.
Dropped Out: Kentucky, Wake Forest.
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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(Photo courtesy of UCLA)