USTA COLLEGE TENNIS
Top 25: March 28, 2018
March 28, 2018
An upset on the East Coast last weekend sent the USTA College Tennis Top 25 No. 1 women's ranking way out to the West Coast.
Pepperdine is the new women's No. 1, thanks in part to Georgia Tech's 4-3 upset of last week's No. 1, North Carolina, in Chapel Hill on Saturday, which sophomore and Memphis native Kenya Jones clinched with a singles victory over Sara Daavettila (Williamston, Mich.). The Yellow Jackets rose to No. 4 in the rankings and allowed Pepperdine, after holding serve against Loyola Marymount at home, to move into the top spot, while Duke rose to No. 2 and the Tar Heels fell to No. 3. The biggest mover on the women's side was Florida State, which rose from No. 24 to No. 17 after beating No. 18 Wake Forest on the road.
On the men's side, TCU's road win over Texas A&M last Tuesday is reflected in this week's rankings, with the Horned Frogs bumping into the Top 10 and the Aggies sliding from No. ADVERTISEMENT 4 to No. 5. The Seminoles men's team also turned in a big weekend, rising to No. 7 on the heels of home victories over North Carolina State and No. 1 Wake Forest, their second win over a No. 1-ranked team in the last three years.
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 College MatchDay at the USTA National Campus is on Sunday, April 1, when the Florida and Texas women meet at 5 p.m. 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. (1) Wake Forest – 223
2. (2) UCLA – 210
3. (3) Stanford – 209
4. (5) Ohio State – 196
5. (4) Texas A&M – 181
6. (6) North Carolina – 178
7. (9) Florida State – 174
8. (7) USC – 158
9. (12) TCU – 151
10. (8) Illinois – 145
11. (10) Texas – 139
12. (13) Mississippi State – 125
13. (11) Michigan – 120
14. (14) Florida – 107
15. (18) Oklahoma – 89
16. (17) Oklahoma State – 88
17. (15) Baylor – 87
18. (16) Columbia – 80
19. (20) Vanderbilt – 55
20. (21) Memphis – 52
21. (19) Georgia – 42
22. (22) Duke – 32
23. (23) Kentucky – 18
T24. (24) Tulane – 14
T24. (NR) Tennessee – 14
Receiving Votes: California 13, Virginia 3, Harvard 1.
Dropped Out: California.
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (2) Pepperdine – 217
2. (3) Duke – 212
3. (1) North Carolina – 211
4. (5) Georgia Tech – 195
5. (4) Vanderbilt – 194
6. (8) South Carolina – 176
7. (6) Georgia – 162
8. (12) Texas – 157
9. (10) Florida – 150
10. (7) Oklahoma State – 139
11. (11) Stanford – 136
12. (13) UCLA – 124
T13. (14) Illinois – 116
T13. (9) Texas Tech – 116
15. (15) Northwestern – 101
16. (17) Mississippi – 95
17. (24) Florida State – 63
T18. (16) Auburn – 58
T18. (18) Wake Forest – 58
20. (23) Mississippi State – 46
21. (25) Virginia – 44
22. (NR) Kansas – 29
23. (19) Miami (Fla.) – 26
24. (T21) Kentucky – 24
25. (NR) Texas A&M - 12
Receiving Votes: UCF 10, California 7, Oregon 7, Washington State 4, Arizona State 1.
Dropped Out: Arizona State, Princeton.
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 Pepperdine University)