3/8 Oracle/ITA Men's Rankings Release

The third computer rankings of the year are out and while there was still a good bit of movement it wasn't as drastic as in the past two weeks.

North Carolina remains at #1 while Ohio State rises up from #4 to #2 after getting the big road win at Oklahoma. TCU stays at #3 while Virginia drops from #2 to #4 with Oklahoma State staying at #5.

Kentucky and Tulane were the biggest movers in the top 25 with Kentucky rising from #22 to #12 while Tulane rose from #35 to #21. NC State came back up 13 spots from #40 to #27 after winning at Wake Forest and SMU went from unranked to #37 after beating both Wichita State and Tulsa last week.

Old Dominion, LSU, Iowa, and Stanford had double-digit drops in inside the top 50.

I noticed three errors with the rankings that will be corrected for next week - Mississippi State's road win at South Carolina was keyed in as a home win so MSU didn't get the road bonus. Georgia Tech's road win at Duke didn't get keyed in before the deadline so that caused GT to be one spot lower than it would have been plus Duke ended up 7 spots higher than it should have been. The Sunday night match between Virginia and Virginia Tech wasn't keyed into the system - didn't effect Virginia but VT would have been 1 spot lower with the loss.

The following teams made double-digit increases versus the last rankings - movement in ( ):
#12 Kentucky (+10)
#21 Tulane (+14)
#27 NC State (+13)
#35 Washington (+10)
#37 SMU (+39)
#39 Virginia Tech (+14)
#53 Cornell (+14)
#57 UC Irvine (+12)

The following teams made double-digit decreases versus the last rankings (still ranked):
#40 Old Dominion (-12)
#43 LSU (-11)
#47 Iowa (-14)
#48 Stanford (-11)
#55 BYU (-11)
#65 UNC Wilmington (-14)
#70 Penn (-11)

These 5 teams entered the rankings after being unranked and here is why they are now ranked
#37 SMU - beat Wichita State and Tulsa
#71 Utah State - beat Pacific
#73 UC Davis - past win over Pacific was improved when Pacific rose 16 spots in the last rankings
#74 Miami FL - beat Florida State
#75 Florida Gulf Coast - past win over St. John's improved when St. John's went from unranked to #52 last week.

These 5 teams dropped out of the rankings with last week's rankings in ( ):
Indiana (58) - lost to Cornell and Princeton
Boise State (71) - past win over Santa Clara was lessened which SC dropped out of the rankings
Arizona (72) - lost to Loyola Marymount and Fresno State
Abilene Christian (74) - its best win over UC Davis was lessened when UCD dropped out
Cal Poly (75) - past win over Portland was lessened when UP dropped out of rankings

Dominik Koepfer (Tulane)

Tulane's Dominik Koepfer is still No. 1 in the singles rankings with the senior from Furtwangen, Germany, a perfect 9-0 in dual-match play and 21-2 overall on the year. 17 of his 23 matches have come against ranked opponents with just the one match against Arizona's #96 Naoki Takeda going unfinished (Koepfer led 7-6, 2-2).

The ITA's recap had a good breakdown by conference on both the team and singles/doubles rankings plus make sure you check out the Universal Tennis Rating - American Top 10 which came out last Friday.

Rank	Avg	School	Previous Rank
1	89.24	North Carolina	1
2	74.14	Ohio State University	4
3	71.45	TCU	3
4	70.74	University of Virginia	2
5	66.55	Oklahoma State University	5
6	65	UCLA	6
7	61.56	Texas A&M University	8
8	56.55	University of Illinois	11
9	55.98	Wake Forest University	7
10	54.57	Texas Tech University	10
11	49.87	Northwestern University	9
12	47.36	University of Kentucky	22
13	46.69	University of Oklahoma	13
14	42.76	California	18
15	41.73	University of Southern California	12
16	41.67	University of South Florida	17
17	41.61	University of Georgia	16
18	36.07	Baylor University	14
19	33.71	University of Texas	15
20	32.83	University of Oregon	21
21	32.36	Tulane University	35
22	32.11	University of Mississippi	26
23	30.98	Penn State University	24
24	30.6	University of Michigan	19
25	29.6	University of Florida	30
26	27.31	University of Tulsa	20
27	26.94	North Carolina State	40
28	25.18	University of Memphis	23
29	24.83	University of San Diego	31
30	24.78	Princeton University	38
31	24.69	Columbia University	25
32	22.87	University of Arkansas	27
33	22.54	Rice University	29
34	21.95	Dartmouth College	43
35	20.67	University of Washington	45
36	20.58	Drake University	36
37	20.3	SMU	NR
38	20.21	University of Notre Dame	41
39	19.71	Virginia Tech	53
40	19.63	Old Dominion University	28
41	19.01	University of Denver	48
42	18.16	Georgia Tech	34
43	17.53	LSU	32
44	17.49	Mississippi State University	50
45	17.06	Purdue University	42
46	16.76	Harvard University	39
47	16.25	University of Iowa	33
48	15.88	Stanford University	37
49	15.37	University of Wisconsin	55
50	15.03	University of Alabama	49
51	13.84	Florida State University	47
52	13.41	UC Santa Barbara	46
53	11.58	Cornell University	65
54	10.55	Middle Tennessee State University	61
55	10.25	Brigham Young University	44
56	10.01	Vanderbilt University	54
57	9.78	UC Irvine	69
58	9.52	University of the Pacific (California)	56
59	9.45	Georgia State University	67
60	9.39	St. John's University	52
61	9.26	University of Utah	68
62	9.24	College of William and Mary	60
63	9.21	University of New Mexico	70
64	8.72	Auburn University	66
65	8.67	UNC Wilmington	51
66	8.19	Duke University	57
67	7.85	East Tennessee State University	63
68	7.81	Western Michigan University	62
69	7.75	University of South Carolina	73
70	7.73	University of Pennsylvania	59
71	7.58	Utah State University	NR
72	7.56	University of Tennessee	64
73	7.4	UC Davis	NR
74	7.38	University of Miami (Florida)	NR
75	7.1	Florida Gulf Coast University	NR

Rank	Avg	Player	School	Previous Rank
1	65.24	Dominik Koepfer	Tulane University	1
2	58.56	Cameron Norrie	TCU	2
3	57.37	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	University of Virginia	3
4	53.85	Roberto Cid	University of South Florida	5
5	52.32	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State University	6
6	51.53	Aleks Vukic	University of Illinois	9
7	48.27	Tom Fawcett	Stanford University	4
8	45.38	Jared Hiltzik	University of Illinois	11
9	41.33	Mackenzie McDonald	UCLA	19
10	32.51	Andre Goransson	California	7
11	32.41	Konrad Zieba	Northwestern University	8
12	31.53	Ronnie Schneider	North Carolina	10
13	31.34	Ryan Shane	University of Virginia	14
14	30.94	Arthur Rinderknech	Texas A&M University	13
15	29.81	Christopher Eubanks	Georgia Tech	12
16	27.89	Alex Rybakov	TCU	24
17	24.4	Julian Lenz	Baylor University	26
18	23.22	Joao Monteiro	Virginia Tech	20
19	22.52	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest University	25
20	22.36	Nicolas Alvarez	Duke University	15
21	22.27	Diego Hidalgo	University of Florida	50
22	21.99	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech University	18
23	20.94	William Bushamuka	University of Kentucky	31
24	19.84	Hugo Di Feo	Ohio State University	17
25	19.69	Wayne Montgomery	University of Georgia	21
26	19.13	Uros Petronijevic	University of San Diego	33
27	18.75	Austin Smith	University of Georgia	27
28	17.86	Piotr Lomacki	University of Miami (Florida)	78
29	17.32	Brett Clark	North Carolina	23
30	16.41	Benjamin Lock	Florida State University	16
31	16.23	Florian Lakat	California	47
32	16.23	Max de Vroome	University of Southern California	65
33	16.14	Elliott Orkin	University of Florida	22
34	15.97	Shane Vinsant	Texas A&M University	53
35	15.77	Nick Crystal	University of Southern California	67
36	15.19	Mate Cutura	Mississippi State University	44
37	15.17	Billy Griffith	California	28
38	14.82	Brayden Schnur	North Carolina	43
39	14.7	Or Ram-Harel	University of Tulsa	39
40	14.24	Logan Smith	University of Southern California	56
41	14.21	Axel Alvarez Llamas	University of Oklahoma	63
42	14.07	Quentin Monaghan	University of Notre Dame	40
43	13.99	Mike Redlicki	University of Arkansas	82
44	13.77	Sam Monette	Indiana University-Bloomington	37
45	13.72	Petros Chrysochos	Wake Forest University	34
46	13.48	Herkko Pollanen	Ohio State University	45
47	12.94	Collin Altamirano	University of Virginia	29
48	12.91	Guillermo Nuñez	TCU	49
49	12.65	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State University	75
50	12.16	Dominic Cotrone	University of South Florida	35
51	11.61	Chase Perez-Blanco	University of Florida	30
52	11.49	Oskar Wikberg	California	52
53	11.08	Jordan Angus	University of San Diego	38
54	10.94	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt University	64
55	10.7	Dovydas Sakinis	Dartmouth College	70
56	10.48	Maxime Tchoutakian	Baylor University	62
57	10.48	Martin Redlicki	UCLA	36
58	10.23	Nick Horton	North Carolina State	72
59	9.87	Edoardo Tessaro	Virginia Tech	76
60	9.65	Alex Knight	University of Michigan	NR
61	9.63	Ryan Peniston	University of Memphis	57
62	9.58	Mazen Osama	University of Alabama	93
63	9.49	Aron Hiltzik	University of Illinois	66
64	9.44	Shawn Hadavi	Columbia University	54
65	9.14	Chris Diaz	Ohio State University	32
66	9.06	David Wilczynski	Stanford University	48
67	9.02	Jordi Arconada	Texas A&M University	106
68	9.02	Mitch Stewart	University of Washington	95
69	9.01	Gergely Madarasz	Purdue University	58
70	8.82	Daan Maasland	University of Oregon	71
71	8.76	Hunter Johnson	SMU	51
72	8.39	Gage Brymer	UCLA	46
73	8.36	Simon Norenius	North Carolina State	83
74	8.17	Jack Murray	North Carolina	41
75	8.06	Alfredo Perez	University of Florida	77
76	8.03	David Biosca	East Tennessee State University	NR
77	8.01	Rishab Agarwal	Mississippi State University	74
78	7.98	Tin Ostojic	Wichita State University	86
79	7.92	Sebastian Heim	UC Irvine	55
80	7.62	Alexander Ritschard	University of Virginia	79
81	7.62	Korey Lovett	University of Alabama	118
82	7.56	Marko Krickovic	Auburn University	NR
83	7.55	Sam Shropshire	Northwestern University	73
84	7.25	Nolan Paige	Stanford University	102
85	7.23	Jathan Malik	University of Michigan	60
86	7.16	Andrew Watson	University of Memphis	NR
87	7.16	Nate Lammons	SMU	84
88	7.1	Christian Langmo	University of Miami (Florida)	81
89	7.09	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	80
90	7.07	Alec Adamson	UC Davis	61
91	6.76	Thibault Forget	University of Southern California	NR
92	6.65	Maxime Mora	University of Oklahoma	NR
93	6.55	Karue Sell	UCLA	94
94	6.53	Hugo Dojas	Texas Tech University	97
95	6.46	Strong Kirchheimer	Northwestern University	107
96	6.46	Connor Farren	University of Southern California	68
97	6.38	Marco Nunez	Florida State University	85
98	6.34	Maciek Romanowicz	Stanford University	114
99	6.2	Alexandru Ghilea	University of Oklahoma	100
100	6.2	Freddy Gelbrich	San Diego State University	89
101	6.12	Kalman Boyd	University of Southern California	105
102	6.09	Jordan Daigle	LSU	42
103	6.04	Stefan Lindmark	University of Mississippi	69
104	6.01	Alexander Day	Princeton University	108
105	5.95	Jack Findel-Hawkins	University of North Florida	116
106	5.61	Gabor Csonka	LSU	NR
107	5.61	David Volfson	Cornell University	NR
108	5.59	Ryotaro Matsamura	University of Kentucky	90
109	5.54	Eduardo Nava	TCU	99
110	5.46	Tyler Lu	Yale University	101
111	5.39	Constantin Schmitz	Tulane University	NR
112	5.38	Harrison Scott	University of Texas	NR
113	5.37	Jake DeVine	University of Southern California	92
114	5.34	George Goldhoff	University of Texas	NR
115	5.21	Arjun Kadhe	Oklahoma State University	109
116	5.2	JC Aragone	University of Virginia	111
117	5.17	Luca Corinteli	University of Virginia	NR
118	5.11	Romain Kalaydjian	University of San Diego	NR
119	5.09	Sem Verbeek	University of the Pacific (California)	NR
120	5	Walker Duncan	University of Georgia	104
121	4.98	Adam Steryous	Furman University	NR
122	4.98	Nicky Hu	Harvard University	NR
123	4.97	Carter Lin	University of Michigan	NR
124	4.97	Alex Sendegeya	Texas Tech University	87
125	4.87	Jurence Mendoza	Oklahoma State University	91

Rank	Avg	Player	Player	School	Previous Rank
1	47.98	Hugo Dojas	Felipe Soares	Texas Tech University	2
2	47.57	Gordon Watson	Diego Hidalgo	University of Florida	1
3	46.43	Brett Clark	Robert Kelly	North Carolina	4
4	42.2	Mackenzie McDonald	Martin Redlicki	UCLA	3
5	38.36	Ben Wagland	Austin Smith	University of Georgia	5
6	35.95	Luca Corinteli	Ryan Shane	University of Virginia	7
7	35.13	Mac Styslinger	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	University of Virginia	6
8	34.23	Jordan Daigle	Boris Arias	LSU	17
9	32.9	Arjun Kadhe	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State University	15
10	32.59	Shawn Hadavi	Richard Pham	Columbia University	10
11	29.26	Herkko Pollanen	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State University	19
12	27.01	Julian Lenz	Will Little	Baylor University	11
13	26.75	Ralf Steinbach	Martin Joyce	Ohio State University	13
14	26.44	Alex Lawson	Quentin Monaghan	University of Notre Dame	9
15	26.32	Jack Findel-Hawkins	Yannick Zuern	University of North Florida	8
16	25.12	Matic Spec	Felix Corwin	University of Minnesota	14
17	24.75	Hayden Sabatka	Bart Van Leijsen	University of New Mexico	16
18	23.91	Jayson Amos	Armando Soemarno	University of Oregon	37
19	21.97	Christian Seraphim	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest University	21
20	21.6	Luis Valero	Jack Schipanski	University of Tennessee	42
21	21.25	Andreas Bjerrehus	Joao Monteiro	Virginia Tech	12
22	21.21	Nate Lammons	Arkadijs Slobodkins	SMU	18
23	21.02	Nathan Eshmade	Miles Seemann	UC Santa Barbara	38
24	18.87	Spencer Papa	Axel Alvarez Llamas	University of Oklahoma	NR
25	18.59	Arthur Rinderknech	Jackson Withrow	Texas A&M University	31
26	17.62	Benjamin Lock	Marco Nunez	Florida State University	NR
27	17.16	Guilherme Hadlich	Gabriel Sidney	Pepperdine	30
28	16.55	Yates Johnson	Hunter Johnson	SMU	53
29	16.38	Filip Vittek	Jordan Angus	University of San Diego	24
30	16.33	Brayden Schnur	Jack Murray	North Carolina	26
31	15.76	Giammarco Micolani	Mike Redlicki	University of Arkansas	49
32	15	Mike Vermeer	Michal Rolski	Columbia University	33
33	14.74	Dominik Koepfer	Chi-Shan Jao	Tulane University	27
34	14.65	Arthur Rinderknech	Shane Vinsant	Texas A&M University	23
35	14.5	Justin Roberts	Dominic Cotrone	University of South Florida	46
36	14.47	Miroslav Herzan	Haru Inoue	Wichita State University	22
37	13.43	Adam Moundir	Aziz Kijametovic	Old Dominion University	43
38	13.29	Henrik Wiersholm	JC Aragone	University of Virginia	29
39	13.09	Henry Craig	Alex Gasson	University of Denver	20
40	13	Nick Horton	Ian Dempster	North Carolina State	34
41	12.77	Romain Bogaerts	Maksim Kan	Wake Forest University	28
42	12.36	Korey Lovett	Mazen Osama	University of Alabama	NR
43	12.34	Maciek Romanowicz	Nolan Paige	Stanford University	48
44	12.24	Alex Sendegeya	Bjorn Thomson	Texas Tech University	56
45	12.14	Jose Gracia	Marco Nunez	Florida State University	36
46	12.01	Alexandru Ghilea	Andrew Harris	University of Oklahoma	35
47	11.69	Rogerio Ribeiro	David Biosca	East Tennessee State University	NR
48	11.67	Filip Kraljevic	Zvonimir Babic	University of Mississippi	54
49	11.67	William Bushamuka	Beck Pennington	University of Kentucky	NR
50	11.15	Austin Kaplan	Nicholai Westergaard	University of Pennsylvania	25
51	11.13	Ayed Cordero	Gonzalo Morell	Middle Tennessee State University	NR
52	10.89	Tin Ostojic	Jocelyn Devilliers	Wichita State University	45
53	10.83	Alex Alvaro	Ramon van Flymen	Eastern Kentucky University	NR
54	10.73	Alex Fennell	Harrison O'Keefe	University of South Carolina	51
55	10.71	Chris Patzanovsky	Andrew Watson	University of Memphis	55
56	10.59	Michael Riechmann	Adrian Ortiz-Ruiz	University of Texas	44
57	10.53	Jordi Arconada	Max Lunkin	Texas A&M University	59
58	10.37	Zach Fryer	Diogo Rocha	University of Denver	50
59	10.35	Dovydas Sakinis	Roko Glasnovic	Dartmouth College	NR
60	10.31	Maxx Lipman	Elliott Orkin	University of Florida	32
61	10.23	Daniel Armengol	Jhonathan Gonzalez	University of Texas at Arlington	NR
62	10.08	Wayne Montgomery	Emil Reinberg	University of Georgia	NR
63	10.04	Charlie Emhardt	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso University	57
64	10.04	Marko Krickovic	Edward Nguyen	Auburn University	52
65	9.88	Casey Kay	Michael Kay	Georgia Tech	41
66	9.77	Dusty Boyer	Toby Boyer	University of Nebraska	58
67	9.68	Jonny Rigby	Michal Kianicka	Southern Illinois, Carbondale	47
68	9.33	Corey Pang	Ben Donovan	Cal Poly	NR
69	9.27	Alex Fennell	Thomas Mayronne	University of South Carolina	NR
70	8.91	Andre Goransson	Florian Lakat	California	NR
71	8.86	Quentin Monaghan	Grayson Broadus	University of Notre Dame	NR
72	8.79	Rodolfo Jauregui	Hayden Sabatka	University of New Mexico	39
73	8.7	Ben Lott	Ben Wood	Drake University	NR
74	8.55	Nick Crystal	Laurens Verboven	University of Southern California	NR
75	8.53	Aziz Kijametovic	Jacob Nicolussi	Old Dominion University	NR
76	8.47	Pen Binet	Daniel Valent	Vanderbilt University	NR
77	8.35	Alex Favrot	Luke Johnson	Clemson University	NR
78	8.25	Jake Jacoby	Lefteris Theodorou	University of Iowa	NR
79	8.05	Matthew Kirby	Dylan McCloskey	University of Tulsa	NR
80	8.04	Max de Vroome	Jack Jaede	University of Southern California	NR