2/3 ITA Rankings Release

The newest rankings were released today with 8 of the top 10 teams getting shuffled around. The two teams not to move were Virginia who stayed at #1 and Ohio State who stayed at #8. TCU came up from #3 to #2 after Oklahoma lost to Wake Forest on Sunday. Oklahoma dropped from #2 to #5 after the loss which meant that both Texas A&M and Baylor slid up one spot each to #3 and #4. USC is up two spots from #8 to #6 after beating Florida, North Carolina came up three spots from #10 to #7 after beating Illinois, UCLA came up three spots from #12 to #9 after beating Georgia, and Wake Forest came up one spot after beating Oklahoma and losing to Oklahoma State.

Oklahoma State made the biggest jump inside the top 50 by coming up 8 spots from #25 to #17 after convincingly beating both Wake Forest and Minnesota last weekend.

Michigan was the biggest riser overall by coming from unranked all the way up to #54 after beating both Princeton and Cornell during the Big Ten/Ivy League Challenge last weekend at the USTA National Tennis Center.

There were no women's rankings released this week since the National Team Indoors get started on Friday in Madison. I still don't get why they keep the rankings a secret the week of the NTIs and NCAAs - transparency helps silence controversy.

Yesterday I did my own men's top 25 so if you didn't see those you can look them over and compare them to these.

Below I'll look at the teams that moved up at least 4 spots and then look at the teams that fell at least 4 spots with any notable results listed from the last week through this past Sunday.

Movin' On Up:
#25 Oklahoma State - up 8 spots - beat #10 Wake Forest 4-2; beat #23 Minnesota 6-1
#32 NC State - up 4 spots - didn't play last week
#34 Dartmouth - up 8 spots - beat #30 Tulane 4-3; beat #39 Drake 4-3
#42 Oregon - up 4 spots - beat #52 Denver 4-3; won at Nebraska 6-1
#50 Rice - up 6 spots - beat #35 LSU 4-3; beat UT Arlington 4-0
#54 Michigan - up at least 26 spots - beat #45 Princeton 7-0; beat #60 Cornell 4-1
#55 South Carolina - up 4 spots - beat #44 Georgia Tech 5-2
#66 North Florida - up 5 spots - won at #60 Cornell 4-2; lost at #15 Columbia 6-1
#68 Purdue - was unranked - won at #31 Tulsa 4-3; beat #67 Wichita State 4-3
#74 Wisconsin - was unranked - beat #45 Princeton 4-3; beat Valparaiso 6-1


Free Fallin':
#11 Georgia - down 5 spots - lost to #9 UCLA 6-1
#12 Illinois - down 5 spots - beat #25 Duke 4-3; lost to #7 North Carolina 4-0
#31 Tulsa - down 8 spots - lost to then unranked Purdue 4-3; beat #67 Wichita State 4-3
#35 LSU - down 5 spots - lost at #50 Rice 4-3
#44 Georgia Tech - down 5 spots - lost at #55 South Carolina 5-2
#45 Princeton - down 11 spots - lost at Wisconsin 4-3; lost to #54 Michigan 7-0; beat #62 Iowa 6-1
#57 UC Davis - down 4 spots - lost to Abilene Christian 4-3; beat #73 Pacific 4-2
#60 Cornell - down 13 spots - lost to #66 North Florida 4-2; lost to #54 Michigan 4-1; lost to #62 Iowa 4-2
#67 Wichita State - down 4 spots - lost to #68 Purdue 4-3; lost at #31 Tulsa 4-3
#75 Fresno State - down 9 spots - lost at Santa Clara 5-2; beat St. Mary's (CA) 5-2


Notes:

• UNC Wilmington, Troy, and Clemson were the 3 teams to drop out this week
• Illinois beat a top 30 team on the road and loses to a top 10 on the road and gets dropped 5 spots?
• Oklahoma State beats a top 10 and a top 25 team with its only loss to #2 but is still down at #17 - should be in the top 10 in my opinion. 
• Duke lost twice last weekend to fellow top 25 teams but only dropped 1 spot - nobody with a 1-4 record should be ranked in the top 25.

Men's National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA 
NCAA Division I Tennis
February 3, 2016

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Ranking	School	Jan. 27
1	Virginia	1
2	TCU	3
3	Texas A&M	4
4	Baylor	5
5	Oklahoma	2
6	USC	T8
7	North Carolina	10
8	Ohio State	T8
9	UCLA	12
10	Wake Forest	11
11	Georgia	6
12	Illinois	7
13	South Florida	13
14	Texas Tech	14
15	Columbia	15
16	San Diego	16
17	Oklahoma State	25
18	Stanford	17
19	Virginia Tech	18
20	Mississippi	19
21	Northwestern	21
22	Florida	20
23	Minnesota	22
24	California	27
25	Duke	24
26	Texas	26
27	Vanderbilt	28
28	Florida State	29
29	Mississippi State	31
30	Tulane	32
31	Tulsa	23
T32	Harvard	33
T32	North Carolina State	36
34	Dartmouth	42
35	LSU	30
36	Notre Dame	35
37	Memphis	40
38	San Diego State	38
39	Drake	37
40	Tennessee	41
41	Washington	43
42	Oregon	46
43	Pepperdine	44
44	Georgia Tech	39
45	Princeton	34
46	Louisville	45
47	Penn State	50
48	UC Santa Barbara	T47
49	Kentucky	51
50	Rice	56
51	SMU	49
52	Denver	52
53	Indiana	T53
54	Michigan	NR
55	South Carolina	59
56	Auburn	55
57	UC Davis	T53
58	Cal Poly	57
59	Boise State	58
60	Cornell	T47
61	Old Dominion	60
62	Iowa	64
63	Alabama	61
64	Arkansas	65
65	Texas A&M Corpus Christi	62
66	North Florida	71
67	Wichita State	63
68	Purdue	NR
69	Arizona	T69
70	UC Irvine	67
71	South Alabama	74
72	San Francisco	T69
73	Pacific	T72
74	Wisconsin	NR
75	Fresno State	66