COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M women's tennis team is No. 10 in the final Oracle/ITA National Collegiate Tennis Rankings, released today.
It marks the third consecutive year as well as the third time in program history the Aggies have finished in the Top 10. Under the direction of head coach Howard Joffe and associate head coach Mark Weaver, the Aggies were an all-time high No. 3 in the 2013 final rankings following A&M's first-ever NCAA Championship runner-up finish. A&M was No. 9 in the 2014 final rankings.
This year the Aggies went 17-6 overall, including 13-6 against ranked opponents. A&M was 4-4 against Top-10 opponents, including a thrilling 4-3 victory over then-No. 8 Vanderbilt, which then went on to win its next 10 matches to capture its first NCAA national championship and earn a No. 1 final ranking.
The Aggies, who tied the Commodores and Georgia for second place in the Southeastern Conference with an 11-2 record, made a 16th consecutive and 21st overall appearance in the NCAA tournament and were seeded No. 10 in the 64-team field. They advanced to the NCAA Championship round of 16 for the third consecutive year and the fourth time in program history before falling to 2014 national champion and 2015 NCAA runner-up UCLA, which was defeated by Vanderbilt in the national championship match and placed No. 3 in the final rankings.
The SEC placed a nation-leading eight teams in the final Top 25: Vanderbilt (1), Georgia (5), Florida (6), Texas A&M (10), Alabama (14), LSU (23), Ole Miss (24) and Kentucky (25). Mississippi State and Arkansas were No. 32 and 38, respectively, and Auburn (46) and Tennessee (61) also were listed in the final rankings.
The Aggie men's team is an all-time high No. 5 in the ITA men's final rankings, and A&M joins Georgia, Baylor, USC, and Virginia as the only teams in the nation to have both their men's and women's tennis programs in the top 10 in the final rankings.
The ITA singles and doubles rankings will be released June 3, along with the final regional rankings.
Below is the ITA's list of the 25 top-ranked teams:
Rank   Avg          School                                     Previous Week
1 | 83.20 | Vanderbilt University | 4 |
2 | 81.88 | University of Southern California | 1 |
3 | 78.35 | UCLAÂ | 6 |
4 | 76.88 | North Carolina | 2 |
5 | 74.40 | University of Georgia | 7 |
6 | 72.64 | University of Florida | 5 |
7 | 71.98 | California | 3 |
8 | 66.62 | Baylor University | 9 |
9 | 65.50 | University of Virginia | 8 |
10 | 63.37 | Texas A&M University | 10 |
11 | 60.26 | Stanford | 14 |
12 | 55.83 | Oklahoma State University | 12 |
13 | 54.58 | University of Michigan | 11 |
14 | 52.61 | University of Alabama | 13 |
15 | 50.26 | University of Miami (Florida)Â | 15 |
16 | 47.36 | Texas Tech University | 16 |
17 | 42.15 | TCUÂ | 17 |
18 | 41.64 | Clemson University | 21 |
19 | 38.28 | Duke University | 20 |
20 | 37.02 | Georgia Tech | 24 |
21 | 36.69 | Ohio State University | 18 |
22 | 35.16 | Pepperdine | 19 |
23 | 33.95 | LSUÂ | 22 |
24 | 33.45 | University of Mississippi | 23 |
25 | 29.79 | University of Kentucky | 25 |
For the complete final team rankings, go to itatennis.com.
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