USTA College Tennis
Top 25: March 7, 2018
March 7, 2018
Two men's teams from Texas and one women's team from Illinois made the most significant upward moves in this week's USTA College Tennis Top 25 rankings.
The Northwestern women's team climbed from No. 23 to No. 18 thanks to a 2-0 weekend in which the Wildcats, coming off a home victory over No. 3 Vanderbilt, defeated then-No. 12 Illinois, 4-2, in Champaign and Iowa, 6-1, at home in Evanston, behind singles victories from the senior trio of Erin Larner (Portland, Ore.), Maddie Lipp (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Alex Chatt (Western Springs, Ill.).
On the men's side, the Texas Longhorns moved into the Top 10, tied with Oklahoma State at No. 9, after picking up two road wins in North Carolina over the weekend, taking out N.C. State, 4-1, on Friday and then-No. 5 North Carolina, 4-3, on Sunday, with Canadian junior Harrison Scott clinching victory for the Longhorns in Chapel Hill. ADVERTISEMENT Texas A&M, meanwhile, bumped itself back into the Top 5 with convincing 7-0 road victories at Ole Miss and Arkansas over the weekend.
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 – 225
2. (2) UCLA – 213
3. (3) Ohio State – 204
4. (4) Stanford – 201
5. (7) Texas A&M – 184
6. (5) North Carolina – 173
7. (6) USC – 169
8. (9) Columbia – 153
T9. (10) Oklahoma State – 140
T9. (14) Texas – 140
11. (11) Illinois – 131
12. (12) Florida State – 119
13. (15) Florida – 115
T14. (8) Georgia – 109
T14. (13) Baylor – 109
16. (16) Michigan – 104
17. (17) Oklahoma – 88
18. (18) Mississippi State – 80
19. (19) TCU – 63
20. (20) Duke – 48
21. (T23) Vanderbilt – 43
22. (21) Mississippi – 36
23. (T23) Notre Dame – 24
24. (22) Tulane – 18
25. (25) Kentucky – 9
Receiving Votes: Arizona State 7, Tennessee 2, NC State 1, South Carolina 1, Texas Tech 1.
Dropped Out: None.
USTA College Top 25 - Women
Rank (Last Week)
1. (1) North Carolina – 225
2. (2) Pepperdine – 216
3. (3) Vanderbilt – 205
4. (4) Duke – 196
5. (5) Georgia Tech – 190
6. (6) Texas Tech – 180
7. (7) Georgia – 173
8. (9) UCLA – 156
9. (10) Oklahoma State – 145
10. (11) Florida – 144
11. (14) South Carolina – 128
12. (13) Texas – 123
13. (8) Mississippi – 116
14. (15) Stanford – 102
15. (12) Illinois – 94
16. (16) Auburn – 87
17. (19) Florida State – 79
18. (23) Northwestern – 75
19. (17) Wake Forest – 74
20. (T21) Kentucky – 42
21. (24) Princeton – 36
22. (20) California – 23
T23. (18) Ohio State – 20
T23. (25) LSU – 20
25. (NR) Texas A&M – 13
Receiving Votes: Michigan 6, Arizona State 5, Oregon 5, Baylor 3, Miami (Fla.) 3, Virginia 3, Kansas 2, UCF 2.
Dropped Out: Michigan.
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 (Tennis Recruiting Network); Michael Patrick (former University of Tennessee women’s head coach) and Lisa Stone (Parenting Aces).
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