by Bobby Knight | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina retained its top spot after splitting matches with Virginia and Wake Forest while TCU and Virginia remain at No. 2 and No. 3. UCLA moves up one spot to No. 4 after picking up wins over Cal and Stanford while Ohio State drops one spot from No. 4 to No. 5 despite winning both of its matches last weekend.Wake Forest stays at No. 6 despite winning at No. 1 North Carolina. The reason they didn’t move up was because the team’s ahead of them had better overall wins plus Wake’s loss to NC State is weighing them down a tad. When I did my projections I had Wake at No. 7 because I made an error on my spreadsheet;...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog
North Carolina retained its top spot but TCU and Virginia swapped spots at No. 2 and No. 3. If TCU’s win over Texas A&M would have counted in these rankings the Horned Frogs would have been the new No. 1. Ohio State is still at No. 4 while UCLA moves up to No. 5 after the previous No. 5 Oklahoma State was upset by SMU.Wake Forest moved up seven spots to No. 6 after picking up a road win at Florida State while Georgia moved up four spots to No. 7 after beating Kentucky. Oklahoma State dropped three spots to No. 8 after losing to SMU while USC dropped one spot to No. 9 after losing at Washington. Texas A&M falls three spots to No. 10 after losing...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog
The new rankings are out and for the second week in a row we have a new No. 1 with North Carolina overtaking Virginia by almost 9 points. TCU stays at No. 3, Ohio State stays at No. 4 and Oklahoma State moves back ahead of UCLA at No. 5 with the Bruins at No. 6. Further down below I have a more in-depth breakdown of the top 6 and how the points were calculated.This set of rankings used each team’s six best wins and all losses while next week’s rankings will use each’s seven best wins.Vanderbilt, Auburn, and Pepperdine were the biggest upward movers. Vanderbilt rose 19 spots from No. 68 to No. 49 after...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
The new rankings are out and as expected we have a new No. 1 with Virginia sliding ahead of North Carolina. TCU holds firm at No. 3, Ohio State slides down to No. 4 and UCLA comes up to No. 5 just a .03 ahead of Oklahoma State. Further down below I have a more in depth breakdown of the top 5 and how the points were calculated.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 No. 10 to No. 8. 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...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
The first thing I wanted to mention is that I wrote an article for the Tennis Recruiting Network that ran today with the topic being the Road to Tulsa. It talks about the teams that I think are contenders for the national championship along with the others that have some work to do so make sure you give it a read.After the release of the latest Oracle/ITA rankings, I wanted to do a comparison between those and the most recent Universal Tennis Ratings. Below is a chart of the top 25 men and women sorted by UTR and ITA rankings.Here are some men’s ranking notables:There are 6 men in both the ITA and UTR top 10Andrew Harris at No. 2 in the UTR chart...
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