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Pre-NCAA Tournament Rankings Released

by | May 6, 2016 | Blog | 5 comments

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The final set of rankings that was used to determine the NCAA field for both teams and individuals was released on Thursday. There weren’t many differences from what I projected on Monday with the men’s at-large cut-off falling at No. 42 while the women’s at-large cut-off was No. 43. The Alabama men missed the field by .08 while the Fresno State women missed the field .23.

The men’s singles at-large cut-off was No. 56 since there were eight automatic qualifiers that were ranked below that number.  No. 57 Strong Kirchheimer is listed as the first alternate though past experience tells us that at least three or four alternates (if not more) will make it in due to people dropping out due to injury or fatigue.

The top 8 men’s singles seeds all followed the rankings but for some reason Illinois’s Jared Hiltzik was not seeded in the 9-16 group despite having a singles ranking of No. 16. Georgia’s Austin Smith, who was ranked ahead of Hiltzik going into the final rankings, ended up seeded in the 9-16 group. There was no head-to-head meeting that would explain the switch so I guess only the committee knows why the change was made.

The women’s singles at-large cut-off was No. 58 since there were six automatic qualifiers that were ranked below that number. Jessica Golovin of LSU is listed as the first alternate with a singles ranking of No. 59.

Cal’s Maegan Manasse was ranked No. 7 but was seeded No. 6 due to a head-to-head win over Pepperdine’s Luisa Stefani who finished ranked No. 6.

The men’s doubles at-large cut-off was No. 25 since there were seven automatic qualifiers that were ranked below that number. The one seeding oddity was Oklahoma State’s Julian Cash and Arjun Kadhe being bumped into the 5-8 group despite having a ranking of No. 10. They did own a H2H win over No. 9 Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat but they did not play No. 8 Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow. The only reason that I can think of why Rinderknech and Withrow didn’t get a top 8 seed is because they hadn’t played together since March.

The women’s doubles at-large cut-off was No. 29 with Mississippi State’s Kristinia Vozniak and Madison Harrison the first alternates.

The only change between ranking and seeding came at No. 1 and No. 2 with the second-ranked team of North Carolina’s Whitney Kay and Hayley Carter getting the top seed due to a head-to-head win over Kentucky’s Aldila Sutjiadi and Mami Adachi.

5/5/16 Men’s Team Rankings

Rank Avg School Previous Rank
1 78.43 University of Virginia 1
2 71.51 UCLA 2
3 70.63 North Carolina 3
4 70.18 TCU 5
5 69.72 Ohio State University 4
6 65.14 Wake Forest University 6
7 64.36 University of Georgia 7
8 60.05 Texas Tech University 8
9 57.25 University of Florida 9
10 55.88 University of Oklahoma 10
11 54.45 University of Southern California 11
12 50.09 Texas A&M University 14
13 50.08 California 12
14 48.72 Northwestern University 13
15 47.63 University of Illinois 17
16 47.09 Oklahoma State University 15
17 44.34 University of South Florida 16
18 40.37 University of Texas 18
19 39.65 University of Arkansas 19
20 38.02 University of Kentucky 20
21 34.65 Mississippi State University 22
22 34.65 Florida State University 21
23 33.95 University of Tulsa 23
24 32.63 University of Michigan 24
25 32.01 Columbia University 25
26 31 Rice University 26
27 28.99 University of Mississippi 29
28 28.25 University of San Diego 30
29 27.77 Stanford University 27
30 27.75 SMU 28
31 26.27 Tulane University 31
32 24.99 Georgia Tech 33
33 24.76 Virginia Tech 32
34 24.72 Vanderbilt University 34
35 24.61 Baylor University 42
36 23.37 LSU 36
37 23.35 Penn State University 35
38 22.55 University of Oregon 38
39 21.82 University of Washington 40
40 21.03 University of Notre Dame 37
41 20.96 Dartmouth College 39
42 19.42 University of Memphis 41
43 19.34 University of Alabama 43
44 18.07 UC Santa Barbara 46
45 17.95 University of South Carolina 45
46 17.66 North Carolina State 44
47 16.88 University of Denver 48
48 15.16 Old Dominion University 47
49 14.28 Purdue University 53
50 14.26 Cornell University 50
51 14.14 Drake University 51
52 13.83 Harvard University 49
53 13.51 Princeton University 52
54 12.24 Pepperdine 61
55 12.02 East Tennessee State University 54
56 11.88 Lamar University 55
57 11.41 University of Wisconsin 57
58 11.31 Boise State University 59
59 11.21 Indiana University-Bloomington 58
60 10.85 Utah State University 56
61 10.48 Brigham Young University 60
62 10.31 Georgia State University 62
63 9.86 Auburn University 63
64 9.74 Cal Poly 68
65 8.48 University of Iowa 73
66 8.45 University of Nebraska NR
67 8.34 Wichita State University NR
68 8.22 University of New Mexico 64
69 8.01 University of the Pacific (California) 67
70 7.95 Loyola Marymount University 69
71 7.89 St. John’s University 66
72 7.74 UNC Wilmington 65
73 7.58 University of Utah 72
74 7.51 UC Davis 70
75 7.42 Duke University 71
5/5/16 Women’s Team Rankings
Rank Avg School Previous Rank
1 76.19 University of Florida 1
2 75.78 California 2
3 74.09 North Carolina 3
4 70.17 Ohio State University 5
5 69.53 University of Georgia 4
6 65.9 Vanderbilt University 6
7 61.17 University of Miami (Florida) 7
8 53.12 Pepperdine 8
9 52.52 Duke University 9
10 51.56 University of Michigan 11
11 50.84 Auburn University 10
12 49.11 Oklahoma State University 15
13 47.64 University of South Carolina 13
14 46.11 University of Virginia 14
15 46.03 Stanford 12
16 42.32 Texas Tech University 19
17 42.23 Georgia Tech 16
18 40.22 LSU 17
19 38.82 Texas A&M University 18
20 36.53 University of Southern California 20
21 35.9 Mississippi State University 21
22 33.89 University of Kentucky 23
23 33.53 Arizona State University 22
24 30.77 University of Texas at Austin 24
25 28.9 Syracuse University 27
26 28.23 Wake Forest University 26
27 28.21 UCLA 25
28 26.84 University of Tulsa 29
29 26.37 Wichita State University 28
30 24.61 Northwestern University 30
31 24.04 Clemson University 31
32 23.14 University of Kansas 33
33 22.5 University of Arkansas 32
34 21.75 Virginia Tech 34
35 21.18 North Carolina State 36
36 20.91 Columbia University 37
37 20.79 TCU 35
38 20.29 College of William and Mary 38
39 19.17 Princeton University 40
40 18.86 Baylor University 39
41 18.8 Rice University 41
42 17.71 University of Mississippi 42
43 16.59 University of Notre Dame 43
44 16.36 Fresno State 47
45 15.77 Florida International University (FIU) 46
46 15.44 Georgia State University 45
47 14.83 Dartmouth College 48
48 14.73 University of Denver 44
49 14.4 University of Pennsylvania 49
50 14 UNLV 72
51 13.7 University of Illinois 51
52 12.91 University of South Alabama 55
53 12.86 University of Washington 50
54 12.57 University of Alabama 54
55 12.1 Florida State University 57
56 11.94 Harvard University 52
57 11.84 University of South Florida 53
58 11.65 University of Oregon 58
59 11.46 Cornell University 59
60 11.31 Brown University 60
61 11.15 University of Utah 61
62 10.7 Long Beach State University 62
63 10.68 University of New Mexico 56
64 9.15 Univ. of Missouri, Columbia 63
65 9.1 DePaul University 70
66 8.77 Boston College 66
67 8.63 Xavier University NR
68 8.49 Old Dominion University 67
69 8.36 University of Texas at Arlington 64
70 8.14 Washington State University 65
71 7.99 University of Arizona 69
72 7.95 Yale University 71
73 7.92 University of North Texas 68
74 7.89 UC Santa Barbara 74
75 7.82 Purdue University 73
5/5/16 Men’s Singles Rankings
Rank Avg Player School Previous Rank
1 63.76 Mikael Torpegaard Ohio State University 1
2 61.7 Roberto Cid University of South Florida 2
3 58.19 Dominik Koepfer Tulane University 3
4 56.74 Aleks Vukic University of Illinois 4
5 53.79 Cameron Norrie TCU 6
6 51.27 Mackenzie McDonald UCLA 5
7 46.7 Christopher Eubanks Georgia Tech 7
8 43.79 Ryan Shane University of Virginia 8
9 42.25 Thai-Son Kwiatkowski University of Virginia 9
10 41.35 Diego Hidalgo University of Florida 10
11 40.15 Benjamin Lock Florida State University 11
12 39.16 Julian Lenz Baylor University 16
13 38.5 Skander Mansouri Wake Forest University 13
14 37.51 Joao Monteiro Virginia Tech 14
15 37.48 Tom Fawcett Stanford University 12
16 37.4 Jared Hiltzik University of Illinois 17
17 36.82 Austin Smith University of Georgia 15
18 34.81 Arthur Rinderknech Texas A&M University 19
19 34.57 Felipe Soares Texas Tech University 18
20 32.08 Konrad Zieba Northwestern University 20
21 28.58 Mike Redlicki University of Arkansas 23
22 28.4 Nicolas Alvarez Duke University 22
23 27.92 Max de Vroome University of Southern California 21
24 27.43 Alex Rybakov TCU 24
25 27.4 Axel Alvarez Llamas University of Oklahoma 25
26 26.54 Brayden Schnur North Carolina 26
27 25.63 Petros Chrysochos Wake Forest University 28
28 24.7 Ronnie Schneider North Carolina 29
29 24.3 William Bushamuka University of Kentucky 30
30 24.02 Florian Lakat California 27
31 21.07 Andre Goransson California 31
32 20.42 Wayne Montgomery University of Georgia 32
33 19.87 Collin Altamirano University of Virginia 33
34 19.46 Mate Cutura Mississippi State University 35
35 19.39 Quentin Monaghan University of Notre Dame 34
36 19.22 Daniel Valent Vanderbilt University 36
37 17.49 Elliott Orkin University of Florida 38
38 16.5 Martin Redlicki UCLA 37
39 16.01 Gustav Hansson University of Mississippi 43
40 15.84 Sam Shropshire Northwestern University 40
41 15.76 Nick Crystal University of Southern California 39
42 15.72 Ryotaro Matsamura University of Kentucky 44
43 15.63 Piotr Lomacki University of Miami (Florida) 42
44 15.38 Jordan Daigle LSU 45
45 15.23 Hugo Di Feo Ohio State University 41
46 14.75 Brett Clark North Carolina 49
47 13.7 Dominic Cotrone University of South Florida 47
48 13.3 Or Ram-Harel University of Tulsa 46
49 12.97 Mazen Osama University of Alabama 50
50 12.95 Gergely Madarasz Purdue University 48
51 12.35 Gabriel Friedrich University of South Carolina 55
52 12.34 Shane Vinsant Texas A&M University 53
53 11.83 Alfredo Perez University of Florida 56
54 11.76 Rishab Agarwal Mississippi State University 54
55 11.16 Simon Norenius North Carolina State

5 Comments

  1. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Tennis Recruiting did one the last several years but they are not doing one this year.

  2. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    next Miami coach. Bo Hodge. Book it

  3. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Last year there was a contest to predict the winner for both men and women. Is there such a thing this year?

  4. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Good questions – don't really have an answer. I'm not seeing on the surface how Kirchheimer jumped that much either – I wouldn't think a win over Benjamin Ugarte could that kind of effect. <br /><br />I agree it doesn't make any sense to have Lindmark ahead of Brymer if he's ranked behind him. I think they'll both get in anyways but still it is strange that the committee listed them that way.

  5. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Question about the singles alternates. I'd been thinking Gage Brymer would be in the singles field, or the first alternate, based on his previous week ranking of #57. But looks like Kirchheimer ended up as the first alternate. How was it that Kirchheimer moved up almost 20 spots from being #75 the previous week, but Brymer moved down one spot in the rankings, despite Brymer having no losses since February and Brymer's most recent wins being over opponents ranked #55 and #77 at the time he beat them? <br />Also, why would the person currently ranked 1 spot below Brymer in the ITA Rankings, (Lindmark from Ole Miss) be ahead of Brymer as the second alternate (Brymer is the 3rd alternate for the field)? Or is the NCAA selection just always somewhat opaque?