2/17 ITA Rankings Release

The post NTI Oracle ITA men’s rankings are out and North Carolina is sitting pretty at #1 after winning the title. Since there weren’t any published rankings last week we saw a good bit of movement throughout the Top 75 and also a lot of movement within the Top 10.

Both UCLA and Wake Forest came up five spots to #4 and #5 while Texas A&M dropped four spots to #7. Oklahoma and USC each dropped three spots to #8 and #9 while Texas Tech entered the top 10 at #10.

#56 Wisconsin made the biggest jump by coming up 18 spots from #74 after winning at then #23 Minnesota.

#45 Minnesota took the biggest fall after dropping 22 spots due to home losses against #14 South Florida, #35 Drake, and #56 Wisconsin. #63 Louisville was the other school to plunge after it dropped 17 spots due to losses at #37 Oregon and #71 Middle Tennessee State.

I also did my own personal top 25, as I’ve done in the past few weeks, so you can check that out right here.

Below I’ll look at the men’s teams that moved up at least 4 spots inside the top 50 and then look at the teams that fell at least 4 spots in the top 50 with any notable results listed from the last two weeks (since they didn’t do rankings last week).

Movin’ On Up:
#1 North Carolina – up 6 – won at #2 Virginia, def. #4 UCLA, #6 Ohio St, #8 Oklahoma, #10 Texas Tech
#4 UCLA – up 5 – def. #7 Texas A&M, #11 Georgia, #17 San Diego; lost to #1 UNC & at #2 UVA
#5 Wake Forest – up 5 – def. #8 Oklahoma, #9 USC; lost at #2 Virginia
#10 Texas Tech – up 4 – def. #11 Georgia & #13 Bayor; lost to #1 North Carolina
#18 California – up 6 – def. #3 TCU & #24 Texas
#28 Memphis – up 9 – won at #32 Vanderbilt & def. #36 Harvard
#31 Notre Dame – up 5 – def. #45 Michigan & #50 Indiana; lost to #12 Illinois
#35 Drake – up 4 – won at #45 Minnesota & def. Western Michigan
#37 Oregon – up 5 – def. #63 Louisville & won # Loyola Marymount
#41 Princeton – up 4 – def. #60 Cornell
#42 UC Santa Barbara – up 6 – won at #52 Pepperdine & at #72 Arizona
#45T – Michigan – up 9 – def. #33 Duke; lost at #31 Notre Dame

Free Fallin’:
#7 Texas A&M – down 4 – won at #13 Baylor, def. #14 South Florida, #16 Columbia, #25 Florida St; lost to #4 UCLA & #6 Ohio State
#13 Baylor – down 9 – def. #16 Columbia; lost to #6 Baylor, #7 Texas A&M, #10 Texas Tech, #19 Ole Miss
#22 Stanford – down 4 – down to #3 TCU & #24 Texas
#32 Vanderbilt – down 5 – def. #33 Duke; lost to #28 Memphis & #36 Harvard
#33 Duke – down 8 – won at #39 Tennessee; lost at #32 Vanderbilt & at #45 Michigan
#36 Harvard – down 4 – won at #32 Vanderbilt; lost to #28 Memphis & #60 Cornell
#40 Dartmouth – down 6 – def. St. John’s; lost at #30 NC State, at #54 Old Dominion, at Penn
#45T Minnesota – down 22 – def. Green Bay; lost to #14 South Florida, #35 Drake, #56 Wisconsin
#48 Washington – down 7 – lost at #50 Indiana

Notes:

• Texas A&M Corpus Christi (65), North Florida (66), UC Irvine (70), South Alabama (71), and San Francisco (72) each dropped out of the top 75 while #69 Utah, #70 Utah State, #71 Middle Tennessee State, #74 Florida Gulf Coast, and #75 Clemson re-entered the rankings
• Clemson must have someone on the committee to get back into the top 75. They dropped out after starting 2-4 then re-entered after beating Gardner-Webb and Wofford (2X) while also losing to #56 Auburn.