BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s tennis team broke into the top-25 for the first time during the 2003 dual-match season on Wednesday as the Tigers jumped three spots in the Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings to currently own the No. 23 position.
LSU owns a perfect 5-0 record on the season and has only allowed two points in its first five contests. The Tigers have already recorded three shutout victories this season and have outscored their opponents by a total of 32-2.
The Southeastern Conference was well represented in Wednesday’s Omni Hotels Collegiate Rankings as all 12 of the league’s teams earned rankings amongst the nation’s top 30.
Ole Miss led the way with the No. 5 ranking, while Florida comes in as the sixth-ranked team in the country. Four more SEC squads came in among the nation’s top-20 teams on Wednesday as Kentucky (No. 11), Auburn (No. 13), Alabama (No. 14) and South Carolina (No. 17) each moved up in the weekly poll.
LSU, the 23rd-ranked team in the country, is the seventh SEC team in the Omni Hotels Collegiate Rankings and is followed by Tennessee at No. 25 Arkansas at No. 26, Vanderbilt at No. 28, Mississippi State at No. 29 and the 30th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
The LSU men’s tennis team will next be in action on Saturday, Feb. 15, as the Tigers head to College Station, Texas, to face off with the 19th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies at 1:30 p.m.
Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis
Feb. 12, 2003
LW Team (1st) Pts
1 1 UCLA (7) 599
2 2 Illinois (1) 593
3 3 Baylor 584
4 4 California 575
5 5 Ole Miss 567
6 6 Florida 557
7 7 Stanford 552
8 8 Duke 547
9 9 Texas 538
10 11 Minnesota 528
11 12 Kentucky 512
12 13 Washington 510
13 17 Auburn 495
14 18 Alabama 492
15 14 Southern California 488
16 19 Virginia Commonwealth 480
17 20 South Carolina 468
18 21 North Carolina 454
19 10 Texas A&M 450
20 22 Wake Forest 449
21 15 Pepperdine 443
22 23 South Florida 430
23 26 LSU 421
24 28 Ohio State 418
25 16 Tennessee 393
26 31 Arkansas 389
27 32 Tulane 381
28 25 Vanderbilt 374
29 24 Mississippi State 370
30 27 Georgia 369