Wake Forest Takes Over #1 Men’s Ranking

Florida Remains Atop Women’s Rankings

March 15, 2017 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff

Wake Forest becomes the third men's team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking, while Florida continues to occupy the top spot in the women's rankings as Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the updated Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I National Team Rankings on Tuesday.

The Demon Deacons have won five straight matches, including road wins at No. 8 Texas (4-0), No. 22 TCU (4-3) and a 4-3 home win against ACC foe, No. 4 North Carolina. Ohio State, which held the No. 1 ranking the past two weeks, is No. 2, followed by two-time defending NCAA national champion and 2017 ITA Division I National Men's Team Indoor Champion, Virginia, at No. 3. The Cavaliers held the No. 1 ranking for the first six weeks of the 2017 season.

A pair of Pac-12 teams saw their way back into the Top 10 this week, with USC moving up from No. 14 to No. 7, and UCLA climbing from No. 13 to No. 10.

The Gators remain atop the women's poll, and are at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Florida, to take on No. 2 Ohio State in a College MatchDay showdown. Florida is one of 10 SEC teams in the current Top 10.

Defending NCAA champion Stanford re-entered the Top 10 this week, moving up 10 spots from No. 14 to No. 4. Georgia was the other new entry to the Top 10, going from No. 13 to No. 6.

A reminder that the national team rankings feature the Top 50 teams. Coaches will have access to the unpublished national team rankings on the ITA website.

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Top 25 Men's Team Rankings By Conference
Top 10 Conference rankings in parenthesis

Big 12 (4) 5 – Oklahoma State (5); Baylor (6); Texas (8); Oklahoma (9); TCU (22)

Pac-12 (2) 5 – USC (7); UCLA (10); California (13); Stanford (20); Oregon (25)

SEC 5 – Texas A&M (11); Georgia (12); Florida (16); Kentucky (17); Mississippi State (21)

ACC (3) 4 – Wake Forest (1); Virginia (3); North Carolina (4); Georgia Tech (18)

Big Ten (1) 4 – Ohio State (2); Michigan (14); Northwestern (19); Illinois (23)

Ivy 2 – Cornell (15); Columbia (24)


Top 25 Women's Team Rankings By Conference
Top 10 Conference rankings in parenthesis

SEC (4) 10 – Florida (1); Auburn (5); Georgia (6); Vanderbilt (10); Kentucky (14); Arkansas (15); Tennessee (19); South Carolina (21); Texas A&M (22); Ole Miss (25)

Big 12 (2) 4 – Texas Tech (7); Oklahoma State (8); Baylor (16); Kansas (17)

ACC (1) 4 – North Carolina (3); Georgia Tech (11); Duke (18); Wake Forest (23)

Pac-12 (1) 3 – Stanford (4); California (12); UCLA (20)

Big Ten (2) 2 – Ohio State (2); Michigan (9)

West Coast Conference 1 – Pepperdine (13)

Conference USA 1 – Florida International University (24)


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