BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s tennis team was ranked No. 25 in the nation for the second week in a row Tuesday when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association released its poll.
The Lady Tigers (11-6, 3-5) have won four out of their last five matches and swept a pair of road matches against Mississippi State and Ole Miss this past weekend.
With the wins, they moved into contention for the SEC Western Division title with three conference matches left. They play host to Auburn on Friday and division- leading Alabama on Sunday.
LSU is one win behind 23rd-ranked Alabama (9-7, 4-4) in the race for the Western Division title.
In addition to LSU and Alabama, four other SEC teams were ranked among the nation’s top-25. Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt were ranked in the top five and Kentucky, which LSU beat earlier this season, was 16th.
New individual rankings were not released this week. Jessica Ferguson, LSU’s senior from Houston, remains the 62nd-ranked singles player in the nation.
ITA Rankings — NCAA Division I Women’s Team
March 30, 2004
Rank Avg School
1 83.2 Stanford University
2 79.6 University of Florida
3 70 Duke University
4 65.4 Univ. of Georgia
5 65.3 Vanderbilt University
6 63.2 University of Washington
7 60.4 Northwestern University
8 59.2 Univ. of Southern California
9 53.2 UCLA
10 49.8 Fresno State
11 48.1 California
12 48 UNC Chapel Hill
13 47.9 Univ. of Texas at Austin
14 41.6 Texas A&M University
15 41.2 Univ. of Oklahoma
16 40.3 Univ. of Kentucky
17 39.4 Brigham Young University
18 39 Univ. of Miami (Florida)
19 38.1 Tulane University
20 36.9 Univ. of Michigan
21 35.6 Clemson University
22 31.6 Wake Forest University
23 31.1 University of Alabama
24 30.9 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
25 30.8 Louisiana State University