TEMPE, Ariz. – For the second straight year, the Stanford women and Wake Forest men will enter the dual portion of the collegiate tennis season as the nation’s No. 1-ranked teams, as Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the Oracle ITA Collegiate Tennis Men’s and Women’s Division I National Team Rankings on Wednesday.
The Cardinal and Demon Deacons concluded the 2018 season winning the women’s and men’s NCAA National Championship, respectfully.
A national rankings panel voted on the Top 25 teams and will do so up to the ITA Division I National Team Indoor Championships in February. Upon the conclusion of the two national events, team rankings will transition to the computerized system.
Top 25 Women’s Team Rankings By Conference
Top 10 Conference rankings in parenthesis
ACC (2) 7 – North Carolina (3); Duke (4); Georgia Tech (14); Florida State (15); Miami (17); Virginia (23); Syracuse (24)
SEC (2) 6 – Vanderbilt (2); Georgia (5); Florida (11); Ole Miss (12); South Carolina (13); Auburn (25)
Big 12 (2) 4 – Texas (6); Oklahoma State (9); Kansas (16); Texas Tech (18)
Big Ten (1) 3 – Michigan (10); Northwestern (19); Illinois (21)
Pac-12 (2) 2 – Stanford (1); UCLA (8)
American 2 – UCF (20); Tulsa (22)
West Coast (1) 1 – Pepperdine (7)
Others Receiving Votes: Baylor; Kentucky; NC State; Wake Forest
Top 25 Men’s Team Rankings By Conference
Top 10 Conference rankings in parenthesis
SEC (3) 7 – Mississippi State (3); Florida (4); Texas A&M (9); Georgia (12); Tennessee (19); Alabama (22); South Carolina (25)
ACC (2) 5 – Wake Forest (1); North Carolina (6); Virginia (17); Notre Dame (18); Florida State (20)
Big 12 (1) 5 – Texas (8); Baylor (11); Oklahoma (13); TCU (14); Oklahoma State (21)
Pac-12 (3) 4 – USC (5); UCLA (7); Stanford (10); Arizona State (24)
Big Ten (1) 3 – Ohio State (2); Illinois (16); Michigan (23)
Ivy 1 – Columbia (15)
Others Receiving Votes: Arkansas; California; Cornell; Kentucky; Minnesota; NC State; Ole Miss; Oregon; San Diego; Texas Tech; Tulane; UCF; Vanderbilt
The next set of national team rankings will be announced on January 23, 2019.
About the Oracle ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings
As the governing body of college tennis, the ITA administers the Oracle ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings that are designed to track the top men’s and women’s teams, along with singles and doubles players in NCAA Divisions I, II, III, NAIA, Junior Colleges and California Junior Colleges. For full rankings information, please visit the official rankings page .
