The USTA College Tennis Top 25 rankings in Week 2 might look as if the Week 1 rankings were dropped in a blender, with big shakeups and climbers and fallers on both sides, including an emphatic new women's No. 1.

Vanderbilt headlines an entirely new women's Top 5 after a statement-like weekend at home in which it scored a 6-1 victory over then-No. 9 Baylor and a 7-0 sweep over former No. 1 Stanford, with Australian senior Astra Sharma clinching both victories. Stanford fell to No. 5, and former No. 3 Florida dropped to No. 9 after its 4-1 loss to Florida State – now ranked, at No. 21 – in the first College MatchDay of 2018 at the USTA National Campus.

 

Stanford had a comparable weekend on the men's side, surging from No. 10 up to No. 5 after sweeping a weekend pair of matches with USC, 6-1, and UCLA, 4-3, last week's No. ADVERTISEMENT 5 and No. 6, respectively. Florida State also jumped nine spots, to No. 13, after its win over No. 8 Florida at College MatchDay at the USTA National Campus. The men's top four were the only teams on either side to hold onto their Week 1 rankings.

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 Georgia and Georgia Tech men continue the College MatchDay series at the USTA National Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando, with a Friday-night match at 7 p.m. that will air live on Tennis Channel.

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) Ohio State – 224
2. (2) North Carolina – 214
3. (3) Wake Forest – 204
4. (4) Georgia – 191
5. (10) Stanford – 189
6. (7) Texas A&M – 181
7. (5) USC – 166
8. (6) UCLA – 160
9. (12) Illinois – 147
10. (11) Oklahoma State – 144
11. (8) Florida – 116
12. (16) Columbia – 113
13. (22) Florida State – 100
14. (9) Baylor – 99
15. (13) Texas – 93
16. (15) Michigan – 90
17. (18) Notre Dame – 88
18. (14) TCU – 66
19. (20) Duke – 63
20. (17) Mississippi State – 62
21. (NR) Mississippi – 51
22. (19) Oklahoma – 46
23. (21) Tulane – 42
24. (23) California – 15
25. (24) Vanderbilt – 9
Receiving Votes: San Diego 5, South Carolina 4, Texas Tech 3, Kentucky 2, Harvard 1.
Dropped Out: Virginia.

USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (2) Vanderbilt – 224
2. (4) Georgia – 208
3. (5) North Carolina – 207
4. (6) Pepperdine – 194
5. (1) Stanford – 189
6. (7) Texas Tech – 175
7. (8) Georgia Tech – 172
8. (9) Duke – 161
9. (3) Florida – 153
10. (14) UCLA – 132
11. (10) Michigan – 119
T12. (15) Mississippi – 109
T12. (16) Wake Forest – 109
14. (13) California – 107
15. (11) Texas – 105
16. (17) South Carolina – 87
17. (18) Ohio State – 75
18. (T19) Oklahoma State – 64
19. (12) Auburn – 63
20. (NR) Illinois – 62
21. (NR) Florida State – 57
22. (T22) Arizona State – 34
23. (24) Washington – 26
24. (21) Texas A&M – 23
25. (T22) Miami, Fla. – 19
Receiving Votes: Princeton 15, Baylor 3, Northwestern 3, Kentucky 3, LSU 1, Oregon 1, Tulsa 1.
Dropped Out: Baylor, Northwestern.

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); Randy Jenks (Universal Tennis Ratings); Bobby Knight (College Tennis Today); Dallas Oliver (Tennis Recruiting Network); Michael Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s head coach) and Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces).

Previous Top 25 polls:
Jan. 31, 2018

 

(Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University)