BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s tennis team remained in the Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis rankings on Wednesday as the Tigers came in as the 24th-ranked team despite losing on the road against No. 19 Texas A&M on Saturday.
LSU owns a 5-1 dual record and has already recorded three shutout victories this season. The Tigers opened the 2003 campaign with wins against Centenary, Southern, Texas-San Antonio and Southeastern Louisiana before falling to Texas A&M, 5-2, in their first road contest of the season.
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. Five more SEC squads came in among the nation’s top-25 teams on Wednesday as Kentucky (No. 9), Auburn (No. 11), Alabama (No. 12), South Carolina (No. 16) and Georgia (No. 23) each moved up in the weekly poll.
LSU, the 24th-ranked team in the country, is the eighth SEC team in the Omni Hotels Collegiate Rankings and is followed by Tennessee at No. 25, Vanderbilt at No. 26, Arkansas at No. 28, and the 30th-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs.
The LSU men’s tennis team will next be in action on Saturday, Feb. 22, as the Tigers host the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes at 2 p.m. at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium.
The match will be LSU’s last non-conference battle before entering the arduous SEC season and is scheduled to follow the Lady Tigers’ contest versus Tulsa beginning at 11 a.m. Admission is free to all LSU home tennis matches.
Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis
LW Team (1st) Pts
1 1 UCLA (7) 599
2 2 Illinois (1) 593
3 3 Baylor 584
4 4 California 575
5 5 Mississippi 567
6 6 Florida 556
7 7 Stanford 554
8 8 Duke 547
9 11 Kentucky 524
10 12 Washington 523
11 13 Auburn 522
12 14 Alabama 512
13 15 USC 499
14 16 Virginia Commonwealth 496
15 10 Minnesota 482
16 17 South Carolina 479
17 20 Wake Forest 478
18 19 Texas A&M 469
19 18 North Carolina 455
20 21 Pepperdine 448
21 22 South Florida 435
22 9 Texas 428
23 30 Georgia 419
24 23 LSU 412
25 25 Tennessee 411
26 28 Vanderbilt 406
27 24 Ohio State 393
28 26 Arkansas 384
29 27 Tulane 377
30 29 Mississippi State 370