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Road to the NCAAs: Tourney Champions
April 25, 2007 | General
ROAD TO THE NCAAs
Part nine of 12 installments of NCAA Tennis features leading up to the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tennis Championships to be held in Athens
In the Ranks
An Update of the Fila/ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings
The teams at the top of both the men’s and women’s rankings remained the same this week. The Georgia men, still undefeated (26-0), just won the SEC Tournament last weekend in Baton Rouge, La., to enter the NCAA Tournament with a perfect record for the second straight year. The Cardinal women (20-1) finished their regular season schedule with a 4-3 defeat of California to claim their 20th Pac-10 title.
Following Georgia in the men’s top 10 are Virginia, Ohio State, Baylor, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Mississippi, UCLA, Illinois and USC.
Despite having four losses this season, the Georgia Tech women used an ACC Tournament title to jump back up to second behind Stanford. One-loss Georgia, which beat Georgia Tech in the regular season, moved up to third after defeating Florida for the SEC Tournament title last weekend. Rounding out the top 10 are Florida, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Clemson, USC, Miami and California. The only newcomer to either poll is the Indiana women at No. 25.
| Men's Fila/ITA Collegiate Tennis Top 25: | Women's Fila/ITA Collegiate Tennis Top 25: |
| 1. Georgia | 1. Stanford |
What To Watch:
This Week In College Tennis
Several conferences will have their tournaments this weekend, thus deciding the final automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. The following conferences will hold tournaments this weekend:
| This Week's Conference Tournaments |
| America East |
This Week’s Spotlight:
Tourney Champs
A Look at the teams who have won their conference tournaments so far, thus earning automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament:
| Men's Tournament Champions | Women's Tournament Champions |
| ACC: Virginia Atlantic Sun: East Tennessee State Big East: Notre Dame Big South: Radford Colonial Athletic: Georgia State Conference USA: Tulsa Metro Atlantic: Manhattan Northeast: Fairleigh Dickinson Ohio Valley: Jacksonville State Patriot League: Navy SEC: Georgia Southern: Elon Sun Belt: South Alabama West Coast: Pepperdine | Atlantic 10: Richmond ACC: Georgia Tech Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville Big East: South Florida Big South: Coastal Carolina Colonial Athletic: William & Mary Conference USA: Tulsa Metro Atlantic: Marist Northeast: Quinnipiac Ohio Valley: Murray State SEC: Georgia Southern: Furman Sun Belt: Florida International West Coast: Pepperdine |
* The Pac-10 and Ivy League do not hold team tournaments, so the regular season champion earns the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. For the Pac-10, UCLA won the men’s crown and Stanford took the women’s. The Penn women are the Ivy League champions and Penn and Columbia will face off for the men’s title this weekend.
** The selection show for this year’s NCAA Tournament will take place Tuesday, May 1 on ESPNews at 2:30 p.m. ET. The men’s team field of 64 will be announced first followed by the women’s field some time around 2:45 p.m. The singles and doubles fields will be announced Wednesday, May 2 on ncaasports.com.
The University of Georgia will host the 2007 NCAA Tennis Championships, May 17-28. For ticket and tournament information please visit the NCAA Tournament Information Center at www.georgiadogs.com.
