Oracle US Tennis Awards, Wake Forest New Men’s #1 Plus A Full Breakdown of the March 14th Oracle/ITA Team Rankings

 

The ITA released the latest team rankings today with Wake Forest taking over the top spot on the men’s side for the first time in school history. Wake Forest head coach Tony Bresky was excited about news and had this to say. “It’s a great accomplishment for the guys and program to get ranked #1. However it’s a long year and our goal is to finish #1 so we still have a lot of work to do and are excited for the challenges ahead.”

Wake’s win over then No. 5 North Carolina pushed the Deacs past Ohio State with the Buckeyes idle last week. Both Wake and Ohio State have big road matches coming up this week with Ohio State at No. 8 Texas on Wednesday and No. 11 Texas A&M on Sunday while Wake travels to No. 12 Georgia on Friday.

Virginia, which has been idle since winning the National Team Indoors, remains at No. 3 while North Carolina moves up one spot to No. 4 and Oklahoma State drops one spot to No. 5. Stanford was the biggest upward mover by coming up 21 spots from No. 41 to No. 20 after picking up two top 10 wins last week. 

The women’s top three remains the same with Florida, Ohio State, and North Carolina at 1, 2, and 3 while Stanford shot up 10 spots to No. 4 after defeating both USC and UCLA on the road over the weekend. Auburn dropped one spot to No. 5 after defeating Tennessee but losing to Georgia. Tulsa made the biggest rise of teams previously ranked inside the top 50 by coming up 16 spots to No. 28 after defeating Baylor last Monday. 

These team rankings were comprised of each team’s five best wins and all losses but next week it moves to each team’s six best wins and then each subsequent week it’ll add one more win until it reach nine wins for the April 11 rankings. The rankings will stay at nine up through the selection of the NCAA field and then they go to ten for the final rankings after the NCAA Championships. 

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MEN’S TOP 50 – 3/14/17						WOMEN’S TOP 50
Rank	Pts	School	Prv Rank	Chg		Rank	Pts	School	Prv Rank	Chg
1	88.55	Wake Forest University	2	1		1	86.50	University of Florida	1	0
2	86.47	Ohio State University	1	-1		2	85.31	Ohio State University	2	0
3	81.08	University of Virginia	3	0		3	74.22	North Carolina	3	0
4	66.67	North Carolina	5	1		4	69.12	Stanford	14	10
5	61.35	Oklahoma State	4	-1		5	64.98	Auburn University	4	-1
6	54.74	Baylor University	9	3		6	64.26	University of Georgia	13	7
7	54.11	Southern California	14	7		7	63.64	Texas Tech	6	-1
8	53.69	University of Texas	8	0		8	60.31	Oklahoma State University	7	-1
9	52.26	University of Oklahoma	7	-2		9	59.49	University of Michigan	9	0
10	51.08	UCLA	13	3		10	58.57	Vanderbilt University	5	-5
11	50.52	Texas A&M University	12	1		11	56.13	Georgia Tech	8	-3
12	47.90	University of Georgia	11	-1		12	50.02	California	12	0
13	47.21	California	6	-7		13	45.72	Pepperdine	11	-2
14	44.27	University of Michigan	10	-4		14	41.98	University of Kentucky	20	6
15	43.69	Cornell University	21	6		15	38.97	University of Arkansas	18	3
16	42.58	University of Florida	15	-1		16	38.97	Baylor University	10	-6
17	40.98	University of Kentucky	18	1		17	38.69	University of Kansas	19	2
18	40.18	Georgia Tech	17	-1		18	38.05	Duke University	15	-3
19	39.93	Northwestern University	19	0		19	37.64	University of Tennessee	16	-3
20	39.10	Stanford University	41	21		20	36.11	UCLA	28	8
21	37.69	Mississippi State	16	-5		21	30.46	University of South Carolina	24	3
22	37.19	TCU	31	9		22	29.33	Texas A&M University	17	-5
23	35.88	University of Illinois	20	-3		23	27.33	Wake Forest University	34	11
24	32.08	Columbia University	24	0		24	26.00	Florida International (FIU)	26	2
25	29.98	University of Oregon	22	-3		25	25.15	University of Mississippi	23	-2
26	28.31	Univ of South Carolina	23	-3		26	25.14	TCU	22	-4
27	27.41	University of Memphis	26	-1		27	25.01	LSU	29	2
28	26.54	Florida State University	36	8		28	24.99	University of Tulsa	44	16
29	25.69	University of Wisconsin	33	4		29	24.31	University of Miami (Florida)	27	-2
30	24.82	Tulane University	25	-5		30	24.29	University of Texas at Austin	32	2
31	24.10	University of Louisville	44	13		31	23.11	North Carolina State	35	4
32	23.91	Univ of South Florida	40	8		32	22.29	Univ of Southern California	21	-11
33	21.72	SMU	39	6		33	21.40	University of Maryland	38	5
34	20.77	Vanderbilt University	27	-7		34	20.83	University of Notre Dame	31	-3
35	20.72	Indiana University	34	-1		35	19.40	University of Oregon	NR (67)	32
36	20.72	Old Dominion University	30	-6		36	18.96	University of Washington	25	-11
37	20.15	Univ of Notre Dame	28	-9		37	18.93	Dartmouth College	30	-7
38	19.32	Univ of South Alabama	29	-9		38	17.20	Rice University	41	3
39	19.29	University of Minnesota	32	-7		39	16.56	University of Oklahoma	47	8
40	18.72	Univ of Washington	42	2		40	16.17	Tulane University	42	2
41	17.70	Rice University	38	-3		41	15.86	Mississippi State University	33	-8
42	17.32	University of Mississippi	37	-5		42	15.06	Univ. of Missouri, Columbia	NR (52)	10
43	17.07	University of Tennessee	46	3		43	14.94	College of William and Mary	37	-6
44	17.03	Georgia State University	35	-9		44	14.88	University of Alabama	46	2
45	16.32	University of Tulsa	48	3		45	14.43	Arizona State University	40	-5
46	16.06	University of Arkansas	NR (53)	7		46	14.21	Wichita State University	NR (53)	7
47	15.91	Cal Poly	45	-2		47	14.13	University of Denver	39	-8
48	15.66	Univ of Central Florida	NR (54)	6		48	13.18	Northwestern University	NR (51)	3
49	15.46	Utah State University	NR (52)	3		49	13.08	University of Nebraska	NR (54)	5
50	14.27	UC Santa Barbara	NR (57)	7		50	12.82	Virginia Commonwealth U	49	-1
Dropped out: Duke (43), Yale (47), Drake (49), Wichita State (50)						Dropped out: Florida State (36), SMU (43), UNLV (45), Marshall (48), Virginia Tech (50)

Stanford (+21) – from No. 41 to No. 20

Louisville (+13) – from No. 44 to No. 31

TCU (+9) – from No. 31 to No. 22

Florida State (+8) – from No. 36 to No. 28

South Florida  (+8) – from No. 40 to No. 32

 

Notre Dame (-9) – No. 28 to No. 37

South Alabama (-9) – No. 29 to No. 38

Georgia State (-9) – No. 35 to No. 44

 

#46 Arkansas – road win over then #46 Tennessee

#48 UCF – win over then #29 South Alabama

#49 Utah State – win at Loyola Marymount + previous win over TCU enhanced when they jumped 10 spots last week

#50 UC Santa Barbara – win over New Mexico plus other previous wins over Pacific and Fresno State enhanced slightly

 

Duke (43) – lost to North Carolina and Wake plus only ranked win over Tennessee was downgraded when they dropped 8 spots

Yale (47) – didn’t lose last week however ranked win over Old Dominion was downgraded when they dropped 5 spots

Drake (49) – lost to Michigan

Wichita State (50) – lost to Cornell

 

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#35 Oregon – won at then No. 25 Washington and Washington State

#42 Missouri – beat then No. 17 Texas A&M

#46 Wichita State – beat then No. 43 SMU and North Texas

#48 Northwestern – lost to Oklahoma State and Washington

#49 Nebraska – beat Purdue plus some unranked wins must have improved – Huskers haven’t lost yet either!

 

Florida State (36) – lost to Illinois and Penn 

SMU (43) – lost to Wichita State

UNLV (45) – lost to Oklahoma State

Marshall (48) – lost to Maryland

Virginia Tech (50) – lost to Clemson