All the conference tournaments have been completed and now we wait to see who will be selected to participate in this year’s NCAA Championships. The committee will announce its selections at 6 pm and 6:30 pm eastern tonight with the men announced first and the women second. I listed all the automatic qualifiers down below and you can check out College Tennis Ranks and Slam.Tennis for their projections.The singles and doubles selections will be made on Tuesday.
2019 Men’s Champions (with seed listed)
American Athletic Conference – #3 South Florida
Atlantic Coast Conference – #1 Wake Forest
Atlantic Sun Conference – #1 Florida Gulf Coast
Atlantic 10 Conference – #1 VCU
Big East Conference – #1 St. John’s
Big Sky Conference – #1 Northern Arizona
Big South Conference – #5 Radford
Big Ten Conference – #1 Ohio State
Big 12 Conference – #2 Baylor
Big West Conference – #1 UC Santa Barbara
Colonial Athletic Association – #2 Elon
Conference USA – #3 Middle Tennessee State
Horizon League – #1 Cleveland State
The Ivy League – Columbia
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – #1 Monmouth
Mid-American Conference – #1 Western Michigan
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – #1 Morgan State
Mountain West Conference – #3 Fresno State
Northeast Conference – #1 Bryant
Ohio Valley Conference – #1 Tennessee Tech
Pac-12 Conference – #2 USC
Patriot League – #1 Navy
Southeastern Conference – #2 Mississippi State
Southern Conference – #1 ETSU
Southland Conference – #2 Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Southwestern Athletic Conference – #1 Alabama State
The Summit League – #2 Drake
Sun Belt Conference – #2 South Alabama
West Coast Conference – #1 San Diego
Western Athletic Conference – #1 Grand Canyon
2019 Women’s Champions (with seed listed)
American Athletic Conference – #1 UCF
Atlantic Coast Conference – #1 North Carolina
Atlantic Sun Conference – #2 North Florida
Atlantic 10 Conference – #1 VCU
Big East Conference – #2 DePaul
Big Sky Conference – #1 Northern Arizona
Big South Conference – #1 Winthrop
Big Ten Conference – #1 Michigan
Big 12 Conference – #3 Kansas
Big West Conference – #3 Long Beach State
Colonial Athletic Association – #2 James Madison
Conference USA – #2 Rice
Horizon League – #1 Illinois Chicago
The Ivy League – Princeton
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – #2 Fairfield
Mid-American Conference – #1 Miami (Ohio)
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – #1 South Carolina State
Missouri Valley Conference – #2 Illinois State
Mountain West Conference – #1 UNLV
Northeast Conference – #1 LIU Brooklyn
Ohio Valley Conference – #1 Austin Peay
Pac-12 Conference – #1 Stanford
Patriot League – #3 Army
Southeastern Conference – #2 South Carolina
Southern Conference – #1 Furman
Southland Conference – #3 Central Arkansas
Southwestern Athletic Conference – #1 Alabama State
The Summit League – #1 Denver
Sun Belt Conference – #2 South Alabama
West Coast Conference – #1 Pepperdine
Western Athletic Conference – #2 New Mexico State
Any word or clarification about GT women's 2 wins over Northern Alabama being fully countable for above .500?
Bobby, do you know how the seedings are going to work with the new super-regional format. In college baseball, regionals are "paired" so that a team will know which regional winner they will play in the supers. Will it work that way in tennis? Or will they re-seed after the regionals so that a #9 ranked team would get to host a super while an upset winner of a regional might not? The Nationals Indoors re-seeds after the regionals – will that happen in the NCAA's? I've seen no explanation of this anywhere…
I had one coach tell me wins over UNA don't count but another that told me they do – also someone from a conference said they do so I guess we won't know for sure until later but it looks like they will count.
Philip, it is my understanding that the bracket will be made like it always is so everyone will know who they'll play if they advance to the next round – so same as baseball. No reshuffling.
What a great draw for Texas and Florida!!!
I guess the seeding committee kind of overlooked the fact that the Wake Forest loss to Florida was largely the result of not having their number one player in the lineup?
The NCAA site that shows the bracket also states that the top 16 seeds get to "host" the first two rounds "per NCAA policy." Funny that such a policy would never happen in March Madness, it would be ridiculed. Tournaments should be played at neutral sites and it would not be difficult to do. Let the fourth seeds host and build their programs. The tops teams have all the big money and it's easier for them to travel. Letting the top teams "host" is Elitism at it's worst.
If Top 16 you deserve to host, I understand the elitism comment but for the most part the Top 16 have earned it, BTW Women's D1 does host the first 2 rds of Basketball at host sites.
I object to the clearly stated incongruity on the NCAA official site that the NCAA says that the top 16 teams host because that is NCAA policy. It does not happen in basketball and it is not NCAA policy. Ask yourself why this does not happen in basketball. Coaches in basketball and athletic directors have enough pull to and enough cahones to recognize that a fair tournament should be played on a level field at neutral sites. It actually makes the tournament a real tournament and much more exciting to watch. Allowing the top teams to host the first two rounds at home is an OBVIOUS advantage to anyone who has played any sport, especially team sports.
Last year Wake Forest PLAYED AND WON EVERY TOURNAMENT MATCH ON THEIR HOME COURTS. Does that sound fair? Do you think that could ever happen in college basketball? Luckily NCAA tennis gets next to no coverage and most fans are parents of top 16 teams. That's part of the reason the men still have silly rules like no calling of any let serves. The fact that women's basketball might allow teams to host the first two rounds just points to the fact that the policy poor in women's basketball too, that's all. If the NCAA had a consistent policy the woman's tournament and the men's tournament would be run in a similar fashion.
Allowing the top seeds home court advantage for the first two rounds is not a level playing field. WHETHER OR NOT ANYONE "EARNED IT" IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. That's the propaganda elitist coaches of the top teams who sit on boards that run the tournament want you to fall for..