3/24 ITA Rankings Preview

The gap at the top has widened as Oklahoma continues to add more and more top 10 wins.  Oklahoma now has 10 wins over teams in the Top 14 - that's a crazy figure and will likely keep OU at the top for a while. This week's rankings use each team's top 6 best wins and then next week it'll go up to 7 and then every subsequent week after that they add 1 more best win to get up to 9 by April 14th.

TCU will make the biggest jump within the top 20 as the Horned Frogs move up 8 spots from 18 to 10 after beating #2 Illinois on Monday and then defeating #48 Dartmouth on Saturday.  San Diego makes the biggest jump in the top 40 as it'll rise 9 spots from 30 to 21 on the strength of wins last weekend over #32 Princeton, #33 Drake, and #43 Denver.

Harvard will take the biggest fall in the top 40 by dropping 11 spots from 22 to 33 after losing to both Drake and Princeton out in San Diego.

Others Coming Up:

• Baylor goes from 3 to 2 after the big win over USC.
• Duke is back in the top 5 going from 6 to 4 after beating Wake Forest.
• UCLA moves up 4 spots from 19 to 15 due to several of its top 6 wins moving up the week prior. 
• Louisville moves up 4 spots from 26 to 22 after upsetting North Carolina.
• Oklahoma State moves up 8 spots from 31 to 23 after winning at SMU and beating Dartmouth plus some of its best wins took big jumps with Tennessee (+15) and Tulsa (+9) more than helping out.  
• Columbia moves up 5 spots from 29 to 24 on the strength of its win over Cal plus the rise of Tennessee from 55 to 40 last week.  
• Princeton moves up 4 spots from 32 to 28 after beating Harvard and Indiana.  
• Drake moves up 4 spots from 33 to 29 after beating Harvard and winning at San Diego State.
• South Florida moves up 3 spots from 21 to 18 after beating Minnesota.

Others Going Down:

• North Carolina drops 4 spots from 10 to 14 after losing at Louisville. 
• Northwestern drops 5 spots from from 14 to 19 despite not playing last week.  The reason for the drop is 5 of its 6 best wins took a hit last week with Indiana (-9), Vanderbilt (-6), Columbia (-6), Cornell (-2), and Harvard (-1) all dropping in the rankings.  Only Arkansas (+8) came up.
• Florida drops 5 spots from 15 to 20 after losing at Ole Miss on Sunday and seeing several of its best wins dropping last week.  South Carolina (-9), UCLA (-5), and Florida State (-3) all dropped and the increases by Mississippi State (+7) and Arkansas (+8) weren't enough to make up the gap. 
• Tulsa drops 7 spots from 20 to 27 after losing to both USC and Cal.
• Minnesota drops 6 spots from 25 to 31 after losing at South Florida plus its win over Drake was downgraded some after they dropped 8 spots last week.
• Florida State drops 5 spots from 27 to 32 due to the drops by South Alabama (-11) and Troy (-4) and other teams below them (Princeton, Columbia, Oklahoma St, San Diego) all coming up with big wins

Notes: 

• Texas A&M Corpus Christi should come up another 8-9 spots from 55 to around 46.

3/24 ITA Rankings Projections (ones in bold moves at least 5 spots)

Rank	School	Points	Previous
1	Oklahoma	85.77	1
2	Baylor	77.19	3
3	Illinois	76.49	2
4	Duke	73.30	6
5	Georgia	70.27	5
6	USC	69.41	4
7	Texas	63.31	8
8	Virginia	59.90	9
9	Texas A&M	59.35	7
10	TCU	54.54	18
11	Ohio State	51.93	11
12	Wake Forest	48.41	12
13	Ole Miss	45.99	13
14	North Carolina	43.42	10
15	UCLA	42.39	19
16	Virginia Tech	42.38	16
17	Vanderbilt	39.36	17
18	South Florida	38.23	21
19	Northwestern	37.81	14
20	Florida	37.12	15
21	San Diego	35.48	30
22	Louisville	33.65	26
23	Oklahoma State	33.39	31
24	Columbia*	31.56	29
25	Texas Tech	31.12	24
26	LSU*	31.05	23
27	Tulsa	30.88	20
28	Princeton	30.23	32
29	Drake	29.77	33
30	California	29.66	28
31	Minnesota	28.72	25
32	Florida State	28.63	27
33	Harvard*	24.60	22
34	Mississippi State	21.67	35
35	San Diego State	20.60	38
36	Notre Dame*	19.13	36
37	SMU	18.49	34
38	NC State*	18.20	37
39	Indiana*	16.54	39
40	Denver*	15.69	43

* represents a team that has a win over someone that is ranked between 75-125 however it's tough to be 100% accurate pinpointing where in that range the team falls so the point totals may be off a bit.