3/3 ITA Rankings Preview

Oklahoma will return to the top of the rankings tomorrow and in fact they would have been back at #1 even if USC hadn't lost to Tulsa.  Unlike last weeks rankings which used each teams 4 best wins, the next 3 sets of rankings will use each teams 5 best wins.  OU has 5 Top 20 wins and just the 1 loss to a top 10 Texas A&M.

Duke keeps climbing due to 5 Top 20 wins including road wins at #3 Illinois and #20 Northwestern. As a reminder the rankings reward road wins by giving a 10% points bonus.

Baylor's win over Virginia yesterday bumped them up to #4 just ahead of Georgia.

USC would have been #3 had they beaten Tulsa with the drop due to USC's 5th best win being over #37 Stanford.  The Tulsa loss pushed them down from #3 to #6.



Florida comes up 5 spots, despite the loss to Georgia, mainly due to the other teams around them dropping.  Florida has 4 Top 40 wins and its 3 losses were all top Top 10 teams.

Wake Forest's drop is tied to its opponents rankings dropping.  3 of Wake's best 5 wins took big tumbles in the rankings last week and those are used as the base for this week's rankings.  Clemson (dropped from 35 to 46), South Carolina (dropped from 21 to 34), and Tennessee (dropped from 20 to 56)

Notre Dame drops 10 spots largely due to its road win over Kentucky be reduced from a win over a top 30 opponent to a win over someone outside the top 125.

Tulsa is the biggest riser going from 51 to 27 with the win on the road at #1 USC plus they added a road win over #53 Pepperdine.


3/3 ITA Rankings Projections

Rank	School	Points	Previous
1	Oklahoma	80.25	2
2	Duke	77.06	4
3	Illinois	72.64	3
4	Baylor	68.85	5
5	Georgia	68.37	7
6	USC	61.75	1
7	Texas	60.00	6
8	Ohio State	58.57	8
9	Ole Miss	52.40	10
10	Texas A&M	46.04	9
11	Virginia*	40.25	11
12	Florida	39.93	17
13	TCU*	36.73	15
14	Vanderbilt	35.80	16
15	Columbia	35.72	13
16	UCLA	34.92	21
17	South Florida	34.86	24
18	Harvard	34.84	22
19	North Carolina	34.48	19
20	Northwestern	33.61	20
21	Wake Forest	33.11	12
22	California	31.31	18
23	Drake	29.44	29
24	Notre Dame	28.84	14
25	Princeton	27.49	23
26	Indiana	26.23	36
27	Tulsa	26.07	51
28	Florida State	23.23	26
29	San Diego	23.12	30
30	LSU*	22.50	31
31	Texas Tech*	21.54	32
32	NC State	21.52	27
33	Minnesota	19.75	33
34	Louisville	19.66	38
35	Stanford	18.72	37
36	Auburn	18.52	28
37	Oklahoma State	18.41	25
38	Dartmouth	17.80	50
39	Penn	17.14	44
40	Penn State	15.59	39

* 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.