April 10th Rankings

[TopDawg]

Men's National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
April 10, 2012

Rank Avg School LW
1 87.61 University of Southern California 1
2 77.52 Ohio State University 3
3 75.70 University of Virginia 2
4 74.22 University of Georgia 4
5 66.35 Duke University 7
6 66.24 UCLA 5
7 65.89 University of Kentucky 6
8 64.21 Pepperdine 8
9 55.93 Mississippi State University 10
10 52.93 University of Florida 9
11 52.84 Stanford University 11
12 52.01 California 12
13 50.48 University of Oklahoma 13
14 49.46 University of Mississippi 14
15 38.89 University of Tennessee 19
16 38.61 Auburn University 16
17 38.47 University of Texas 15
18 37.99 North Carolina 21
19 34.81 University of San Diego 17
20 33.87 Texas Tech University 23
21 33.54 Louisiana State University 27
22 33.38 University of Michigan 28
23 33.28 University of Illinois 18
24 32.05 Harvard University 20
25 31.49 University of Washington 22
26 30.64 University of Tulsa 24
27 28.74 Texas A&M University 25
28 28.43 Baylor University 32
29 26.74 Florida State University 26
30 23.43 Boise State University 30

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[TopDawg]

Interesting that Kentucky beats 2 top 15 teams and drops 1 spot. Mississippi State loses to Kentucky and rises 1 spot. LSU breaks in after a big win over Florida. Tennessee loses to an Alabama team ranked 60 spots lower and rises 4 spots. Always interesting to see the changes from week to week.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

I dont understand why Tennessee moved up to 15 despite losing to a lowly Alabama team.

 

[matchplay]

i don't think we need to worry about Bubbas ranking going down after this week.
College tennis rankings continue to be questionable. The top 4 are generally in line. the next ten or so seem to make sense as well, give or take a few spots.
Maybe MikeJ can explain, or Auto.

 

[ClarkC]

A team you beat two months ago jumps up in last week's rankings, so your win over them is better than it used to be, so you jump up in this week's rankings. Everyone wonders why, because no one is focused on your results from two months ago. All they see is that you beat two unranked, terrible teams this week and you moved up a couple of spots, and they cannot figure out the connection between this week's results and your rankings move. The answer is that this week's ranking move is related to your results for the entire season, and your opponents' results for the entire season, which makes it only partly related to your results this week.

 

[ClarkC]

i don't think we need to worry about Bubbas ranking going down after this week.

Bubba Watson gets whatever ranking points go with winning the Masters. If his opponent in the playoff tanks the rest of the year, Watson's ranking does not suffer, because Watson beat the entire rest of the golf world, not just that one guy. It is not a head to head system.

No college tennis team won the Masters of tennis this week. Everything is head to head. Someone you beat early in the season tanks for the rest of the season, you get less and less credit for that head to head win as the season goes on and the opponent's ranking declines.

 

[norcaltennisnut]

Nor Cal has 3 in the top 32
Stanford #11
Cal #12
Santa Clara #32
Not bad for this late in the year.

 

[TopDawg]

Singles Rankings

1 Mitchell Frank University of Virginia
2 Steve Johnson University of Southern California
3 Eric Quigley University of Kentucky
4 Henrique Cunha Duke University
5 Dennis Nevolo University of Illinois
6 Jarmere Jenkins University of Virginia
7 Blaz Rola Ohio State University
8 Evan King University of Michigan
9 Wil Spencer University of Georgia
10 Sebastian Fanselow Pepperdine

All the rest

 

[TopDawg]

Doubles Rankings

Rank Player Player School
1 Chase Buchanan Blaz Rola Ohio State University
2 Kevin King Juan Spir Georgia Tech
3 Christoffer Konigsfeldt Nick Andrews California
4 Alex Llompart Finn Tearney Pepperdine
5 Bradley Klahn Ryan Thacher Stanford University
6 Clifford Marsland Ashley Watling University of Tulsa
7 Steve Johnson Yannick Hanfmann University of Southern California
8 Costin Paval Dane Webb University of Oklahoma
9 Nassim Slilam Billy Federhofer University of Florida
10 Mikelis Libietis Hunter Reese University of Tennessee

All the rest

 

[floridatennisdude]

1 Mitchell Frank University of Virginia
2 Steve Johnson University of Southern California
3 Eric Quigley University of Kentucky
4 Henrique Cunha Duke University
5 Dennis Nevolo University of Illinois
6 Jarmere Jenkins University of Virginia
7 Blaz Rola Ohio State University
8 Evan King University of Michigan
9 Wil Spencer University of Georgia
10 Sebastian Fanselow Pepperdine

All the rest

I am amazed that Frank has hung onto # 1 this long. Calling it now...upset in the round of 16.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

Slim Hamza in there at 50.