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USTA College Tennis Top 25: March 22, 2017

March 22, 2017


The Florida women's first loss at home since 2004 wasn't enough to knock the Gators from atop this week's USTA College Tennis Top 25. It certainly was enough to see the team that beat them – Georgia – return to the Top 5.

 

The Bulldogs' 4-1 victory at Gainesville on Friday ended the Gators' 163-match home win streak, which was the longest active NCAA Division I winning streak of any team in any men's or women's sport. The victory saw Georgia move back to No. 4 in the women's Top 25 (it was ranked No. 4 on Feb. 15), behind the still-No. 1 Gators, No. 2 North Carolina and No. 3 Ohio State. Florida did defeat the Buckeyes last Tuesday, 4-1, in a College MatchDay showdown at the USTA National Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla.

 

The men's poll also saw a shakeup in the Top 5, with Wake Forest, on the heels of a 3-0 weekend with victories over North Carolina, Duke and Georgia, leapfrogging Ohio State to claim No. 2 behind top-ranked Virginia. Texas, meanwhile, scored a 4-3 victory over Ohio State last week to move into No. 5 and knock the Buckeyes down to No. 3.

 

Each team's point total is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA's panel of eight 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 150. First-place votes were not tallied.

 

A number of these programs will be featured live on ESPN3 through WatchESPN and the ESPN app this season as part of the College MatchDay series. Click here to see the remaining 2017 schedule.

 

USTA College Top 25 - Men

Rank (Last Week)

1. (1) Virginia – 150

2. (3) Wake Forest – 143

3. (2) Ohio State – 137

4. (4) North Carolina – 133

5. (7) Texas – 123

6. (6) USC – 112

7. (5) Oklahoma State – 111

8. (11) Baylor – 108

9. (8) UCLA – 102

10. (T14) Texas A&M – 95

11. (10) California – 94

12. (9) Oklahoma – 87

13. (12) Georgia – 85

14. (13) Florida – 71

15. (T14) Michigan – 66

16. (18) Mississippi State – 61

17. (16) Kentucky – 47

18. (19) Stanford – 42

19. (17) Georgia Tech – 41

20. (T20) TCU – 33

21. (22) Columbia – 30

22. (T20) Illinois – 19

23. (24) Cornell – 18

24. (23) Northwestern – 17

25. (NR) South Carolina – 5

 

*Receiving Votes: Tulane 4, Oregon 3, South Florida 3, Florida State 2

Dropped Out: Tulane

 

USTA College Top 25 - Women 

Rank (Last Week)

1. (1) Florida – 148

2. (2) North Carolina – 146

3. (3) Ohio State – 137

4. (T6) Georgia – 129

5. (4) Stanford – 128

6. (5) Oklahoma State – 123

7. (T6) California – 113

8. (9) Texas Tech – 110

9. (10) Georgia Tech – 98

10. (11) Michigan – 92

11. (13) Pepperdine – 86

12. (12) Vanderbilt – 79

13. (14) UCLA – 72

T14. (16) Baylor – 69

T14. (18) Kentucky – 69

16. (8) Auburn – 67

17. (17) Duke – 58

18. (15) Arizona State – 37

T19. (25) Mississippi State – 32

T19. (NR) Texas A&M – 32

21. (21) South Carolina – 30

22. (22) Texas – 28

23. (NR) LSU – 25

24. (T23) Arkansas – 20

25. (19) USC – 15

 

**Receiving Votes: Mississippi 11, Tennessee 2, TCU 1, Virginia 1

Dropped Out: Mississippi, Tennessee

 

Voting Panel: Casey Angle (former ITA championships director), Virgil Christian (USTA College Tennis), Granger Huntress (Texas College Tennis), Bobby Knight (College Tennis Today), Dallas Oliver (Tennis Recruiting Network), Mike Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s coach), Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces) and Bruce Waschuk (Universal Tennis Rating).

 

Previous Top 25 polls:

March 15, 2017

March 8, 2017

March 1, 2017

Feb. 22, 2017

Feb. 15, 2017

Feb. 8, 2017

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