USTA College Tennis
Top 25: March 29, 2017
March 29, 2017
While this week's USTA College Tennis Top 25 perhaps doesn't reflect much about what did happen in the past week, it certainly provokes thought about what might happen in the week ahead.
The top 11 men's teams in this week's rankings stayed put from last week, with the biggest move in the Top 25 coming from TCU – up four spots, from No. 20 to No. 16, thanks to a home victory over Illinois (its win over Texas A&M on Monday will count toward next week's poll). This week, though, the top two men's teams – No. 1 Virginia and No. 2 Wake Forest – square off on Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C., in a College MatchDay event that will be streamed live on ESPN3 via WatchESPN and the ESPN app.
On the women's side, while no team in this week's Top 15 moved more than one spot up or down, a shift could happen in next week's Top 10, as No. ADVERTISEMENT 6 Oklahoma State travels to Lubbock, Texas, to take on No. 7 Texas Tech on Friday in a showdown between the Big 12's top two teams.
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.
USTA College Top 25 - Men
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) Virginia – 150
2. (2) Wake Forest – 142
3. (3) Ohio State – 140
4. (4) North Carolina – 130
5. (5) Texas – 123
6. (6) USC – 117
7. (7) Oklahoma State – 112
8. (8) Baylor – 107
9. (9) UCLA – 103
10. (10) Texas A&M – 97
11. (11) California – 95
12. (13) Georgia – 82
T13. (14) Florida – 75
T13. (12) Oklahoma – 75
15. (15) Michigan – 69
16. (20) TCU – 49
17. (19) Georgia Tech – 48
18. (18) Stanford – 40
19. (16) Mississippi State – 38
20. (17) Kentucky – 37
21. (21) Columbia – 35
22. (25) South Carolina – 14
23. (24) Northwestern – 13
24. (23) Cornell – 10
T25. (22) Illinois – 7
T25. (NR) Tulane – 7
*Receiving Votes: Oregon 6, South Florida 5
Dropped Out: None
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) Florida – 149
2. (2) North Carolina – 145
3. (3) Ohio State – 138
4. (5) Stanford – 130
5. (4) Georgia – 127
6. (6) Oklahoma State – 121
7. (8) Texas Tech – 113
8. (7) California – 110
9. (9) Georgia Tech – 98
10. (10) Michigan – 95
T11. (11) Pepperdine – 90
T11. (12) Vanderbilt – 90
13. (13) UCLA – 70
14. (T14) Baylor – 66
T15. (16) Auburn – 64
T15. (T14) Kentucky – 64
17. (17) Duke – 56
18. (21) South Carolina – 43
19. (18) Arizona State – 42
20. (22) Texas – 34
21. (23) LSU – 30
22. (T19) Mississippi State – 27
23. (24) Arkansas – 14
T24. (T19) Texas A&M – 12
T24. (25) USC – 12
**Receiving Votes: Tennessee 3, NC State 1
Dropped Out: None
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).
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(Photo courtesy of Wake Forest University)
