ORLANDO, March 13, 2019 (Press Release)
Ohio State remains a unanimous No. 1 selection in the Tennis Channel / USTA College Tennis Men’s Top 25, at least for this week.
The poll reflects results from Monday to Sunday each week. Therefore, Texas A&M’s 4-3 win over top-ranked Ohio State Monday night — albeit while Buckeyes star JJ Wolf was absent, competing in an ATP Challenger event in Drummondville, Quebec — will count toward next week’s rankings.
Notably, the Georgia men returned to the Top 25, thanks in part to a 5-2 victory over LSU in which freshman Trent Bryde (Suwanee, Ga.), formerly a Top 10-ranked junior in the world, clinched victory for the Bulldogs.
California and USC both climbed three spots in the women’s poll. Cal opened its Pac-12 slate with a 5-2 win at Oregon, while the Trojans swept an Arizona road swing with a 6-1 win over Arizona in Tucson and a 4-3 defeat of Arizona State in Tempe, both victories clinched at No. 4 singles, by freshman Danielle Wilson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and sophomore Anna Neffa (Key Biscayne, Fla.), respectively.
Each team’s point total, specified below, is the sum of its ranking points from the USTA’s panel of 14 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. First-place votes were not tallied. The maximum points a team can earn is 300.
MEN’S POLL
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Ohio State – 300
2. (2) Wake Forest – 286
3. (3) Texas – 277
4. (4) North Carolina – 262
5. (5) Virginia – 250
6. (6) Stanford – 240
7. (7) TCU – 221
8. (9) Florida – 214
9. (8) Columbia – 213
10. (10) Baylor – 194
11. (12) USC – 174
12. (11) Mississippi State – 164
13. (13) UCLA – 153
14. (14) Michigan – 139
15. (15) Oklahoma – 124
16. (16) Illinois – 116
17. (17) Notre Dame – 104
18. (18) Minnesota – 97
19. (20) Texas A&M – 96
20. (21) Oregon – 66
21. (19) Tennessee – 56
22. (23) South Carolina – 52
23. (NR) Georgia – 29
24. (24) Alabama – 17
25. (22) Florida State – 16
Receiving Votes: Miami (Fla.) 10, California 5, Oklahoma State 4, UCF 3, LSU 2, Vanderbilt 2.
Dropped Out: LSU (25).
WOMEN’S POLL
Rank (Last Week) – Points
1. (1) Georgia – 300
2. (2) North Carolina – 288
3. (3) Stanford – 276
4. (4) Duke – 261
5. (5) Vanderbilt – 252
6. (6) Texas – 240
7. (7) South Carolina – 220
8. (9) UCLA – 209
9. (8) Michigan – 206
10. (10) Ohio State – 200
11. (11) Florida State – 163
12. (12) Pepperdine – 158
13. (14) NC State – 142
14. (15) Kansas – 125
15. (16) Oklahoma State – 123
16. (19) California – 93
17. (13) LSU – 89
18. (17) Miami (Fla.) – 86
19. (21) Washington – 76
20. (22) Northwestern – 62
21. (24) USC – 58
22. (25) Wake Forest – 55
23. (23) UCF – 54
24. (20) Virginia – 53
25. (NR) Tennessee – 44
Receiving Votes: Kentucky 37, Florida 8, Texas A&M 8, Oklahoma 1, Old Dominion 1, Texas Tech 1.
Dropped Out: Kentucky (18).
