TCU, which was idle last week, holds firm at No. 3 while last week’s No. 2, Ohio State, who was also idle drops down to No. 4. UCLA and Oklahoma State swap spots at No. 5 and No. 6 with just a .03 separating them.
This week’s rankings took into account each team’s five best wins though starting next week things really start to ramp up with the six best wins used and then following week it goes to the seven best wins.
Northwestern moved back into the top 10 at No. 7 after its first win over Illinois since 1997 while Texas Tech, who was idle, slid up to No. 8 (TT plays Indiana today in San Diego so if they were to get upset that would change things). Texas A&M dropped from No. 7 to No. 9 after losing at Arkansas while Wake Forest dropped one spot from No. 9 to No. 10 despite a 7-0 win over Notre Dame.
Arkansas, Florida State, Mississippi State, and Wisconsin were the big movers this week. Arkansas rose 19 spots from No. 32 to No. 13 after taking out both No. 7 Texas A&M and No. 44 LSU. Florida State rose 28 spots from No. 51 to No. 23 after the Noles stunned No. 1 North Carolina on Friday night. Mississippi State rose 19 spots from No. 44 to No. 25 after beating No. 12 Kentucky and No. 72 Tennessee. Wisconsin rose 18 spots from No. 49 to No. 31 after winning at No. 36 Drake plus it benefited from Princeton moving up eight spots.
Georgia Tech will also move up roughly 9 spots from No. 42 to No. 33 after winning on Sunday at No. 27 NC State.
Despite shutting out Fresno State 7-0, Oregon will drop 10 spots from No. 20 to No. 30. Four of the Ducks five best wins fell in the rankings last week which therefore impacts the rankings this week. Indiana fell from No. 58 to unranked, Boise State fell from No. 71 to unranked, UC Santa Barbara fell from No. 52 to No. 46, and Old Dominion fell from No. 28 to No. 40.
27 of the 40 schools in my projected top 40 have five wins over current top 75 opponents. Schools that have an * beside the school name have less than five ranked wins so I had to do some guesswork on where the unranked wins fall in the rankings.
Cal holds on to the top spot in the women’s rankings by a slim margin over Ohio State while North Carolina and Georgia swapped spots at No. 3 and No. 4. Pepperdine made a big move from No. 17 up to No. 5 after picking up a win over No. 31 NC State plus several of its five best wins made big increases last week – USC from unranked to No. 43, Auburn from No. 29 to No. 11, Arizona State from No. 36 to No. 26, and Texas from No. 73 to No. 32.
South Carolina will enter the top 10 at No. 9 after defeating No. 5 Vanderbilt and No. 19 Kentucky.
Georgia Tech came up 15 spots from No. 34 to No. 19 after beating No. 22 Wake Forest and No. 30 Syracuse last week. The yo-yo that is Clemson jumped 21 spots from No. 42 to No. 21 after beating No. 30 Syracuse and No. 66 Florida State. These are Clemson’s rankings over the last 4 weeks – 42, 19, 34, and 21 so as you can see they go up then down and then up and then down.
28 of the 40 schools in my projected top 40 have five wins over current top 75 opponents.
| Rank | School | Points | Previous |
| 1 | Virginia | 77.17 | 4 |
| 2 | North Carolina | 76.68 | 1 |
| 3 | TCU | 74.59 | 3 |
| 4 | Ohio State | 73.55 | 2 |
| 5 | UCLA | 64.42 | 6 |
| 6 | Oklahoma State | 64.39 | 5 |
| 7 | Northwestern | 60.58 | 11 |
| 8 | Texas Tech | 57.83 | 10 |
| 9 | Texas A&M | 57.31 | 7 |
| 10 | Wake Forest | 54.37 | 9 |
| 11 | Illinois | 52.95 | 8 |
| 12 | USC | 51.45 | 15 |
| 13 | Arkansas | 45.78 | 32 |
| 14 | Oklahoma | 44.66 | 13 |
| 15 | South Florida | 44.41 | 16 |
| 16 | California* | 44.16 | 14 |
| 17 | Kentucky | 40.58 | 12 |
| 18 | Texas | 39.17 | 19 |
| 19 | Georgia | 38.39 | 17 |
| 20 | Michigan | 37.19 | 24 |
| 21 | Baylor | 35.33 | 18 |
| 22 | Ole Miss* | 33.62 | 22 |
| 23 | Florida State | 30.99 | 51 |
| 24 | Florida* | 29.86 | 25 |
| 25 | Mississippi State | 29.77 | 44 |
| 26 | Penn State | 28.98 | 23 |
| 27 | Tulane | 28.62 | 21 |
| 28 | Memphis* | 28.57 | 28 |
| 29 | Tulsa* | 28.25 | 26 |
| 30 | Oregon* | 27.04 | 20 |
| 31 | Wisconsin* | 25.69 | 49 |
| 32 | NC State* | 24.71 | 27 |
| 33 | Georgia Tech | 24.40 | 42 |
| 34 | San Diego | 23.00 | 29 |
| 35 | Old Dominion* | 22.75 | 40 |
| 36 | Dartmouth* | 22.44 | 34 |
| 37 | Princeton | 22.33 | 30 |
| 38 | Rice* | 21.85 | 33 |
| 39 | Columbia* | 21.68 | 31 |
| 40 | Virginia Tech* | 20.03 | 39 |
* indicates at least one win over an opponent ranked outside the top 75
3/15/16 Women’s Ranking Projections
| Rank | School | Points | Previous |
| 1 | Cal | 79.94 | 1 |
| 2 | Ohio State | 79.57 | 2 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 74.47 | 4 |
| 4 | Georgia | 72.14 | 3 |
| 5 | Pepperdine | 57.78 | 17 |
| 6 | Michigan | 56.56 | 6 |
| 7 | Vanderbilt | 55.64 | 5 |
| 8 | Duke | 54.91 | 8 |
| 9 | South Carolina | 53.59 | 12 |
| 10 | Virginia | 52.71 | 10 |
| 11 | Texas Tech | 52.55 | 7 |
| 12 | Miami | 50.44 | 9 |
| 13 | Florida | 50.36 | 18 |
| 14 | Texas A&M | 44.59 | 16 |
| 15 | Auburn | 43.72 | 11 |
| 16 | Oklahoma State | 42.05 | 13 |
| 17 | Stanford | 38.86 | 23 |
| 18 | LSU | 38.49 | 15 |
| 19 | Georgia Tech | 37.66 | 34 |
| 20 | Wichita State | 36.70 | 14 |
| 21 | Clemson | 35.55 | 42 |
| 22 | Mississippi State | 33.63 | 28 |
| 23 | Tulsa* | 30.65 | 21 |
| 24 | Fresno State | 29.28 | 20 |
| 25 | Arizona State | 28.51 | 26 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 27.98 | 19 |
| 27 | Kansas | 27.48 | 24 |
| 28 | UCLA | 26.56 | 25 |
| 29 | Wake Forest* | 25.12 | 22 |
| 30 | Oregon* | 23.64 | 36 |
| 31 | Virginia Tech* | 22.00 | 29 |
| 32 | Denver* | 21.81 | 35 |
| 33 | Arkansas* |
Ahhh, Arkansas another bastion of integrity. A Spanish club team with a knucklehead who got kicked out of Duke.
Baylor is hardly the only team that is doing this nonsense. Arkansas played Jackson State 4 times in one day earlier this year. Alabama has done it as well.
Actually, I am totally cool with Baylor losing it's next 3 matches. They have never been the poster team of integrity for college tennis, not to mention their fans…
Agreed, the kids do not make the schedule. However tennis is a sport of ethics, integrity and sportsmanship. Or at least it used to be…
I get the frustration with the triple matches against Prairie View A&M, but saying the team should lose its next three is a little much. Don't punish the kids who played the matches and hope they lose. That's not the point of college tennis. It's up to all us to support them whether we agree with the schedule or not.
Hopefully the NCAA will get rid of this feeding the Christians to the Lions multi-win in a day loophole. Congratulations Baylor, you worked the system. Not suprising from a team that more resembles a German club team.
Making it even more pathetic is the fact that Prarie View only fielded 5 players today. Great win(s) for Baylor. It would be just if they lose all 3 at Indian Wells.
Yes and I agree – not a fan of these gimme matches
Between 41-45
Right around 45
It would be nice if some of the coaches offered sound bites like the University of Florida track coach after a disappointing finish in the NCAAs. He said, "It was an incredibly disappointing weekend, almost to the point of embarrassment. It's one of those things where I'd love to tell you what happened. I have no clue. At the end of the day, bottoming out with everybody, I'm the head coach, that's my responsibility. I've got to figure out what's wrong."<br />This is definitely preferable to the sanitized post match interviews given by most college coaches. The only coach I can think of who is brutally honest is Baylor's Joey Scrivano.
where is stanford????
Why is Baylor playing Prairie View A & M three times today? They play at 1, 4 and 7pm. Is this to ensure they have enough victories to get into the NCAAs. If so this is a lame way of doing it.
Do you know where Washington will be roughly by any chance?
They'll be close – I think maybe just outside the top 75 – that Mercer loss is still dragging them down.
I would think Clemson would jump into the rankings thanks to the win over Notre Dame. Is that correct Bobby?