BATON ROUGE — The 16th-ranked LSU men’s tennis team maintained the No. 16 slot in the national rankings the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced on Tuesday.
The Tigers (1-1) launched into their dual season this past Saturday against last week’s No. 20 team Texas Tech at the ITA’s Kick-Off Weekend, hosted by the University of Tulsa at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.
LSU pushed past Texas Tech by a 4-3 overall margin. In day two of the ITA inaugural event, the Tigers narrowly lost a five-hour battle with No. 12 Tulsa, 4-2.
All 12 teams from the Southeastern Conference are listed in the current rankings. Defending national champion Georgia holds the highest spot at No. 3. Following Georgia are Florida (No. 7), Tennessee (No. 8), Ole Miss (No. 9), Alabama (No. 19), Vanderbilt (No. 28), Auburn (No. 29), Kentucky (No. 31), Arkansas (No. 47), South Carolina (No. 51) and Mississippi State (No. 52).
LSU returns to action on Saturday in its first home match of the season against No. 27 Rice slated for 1 p.m. at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.
Men’s Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
February 3, 2009
Rank School
1 Ohio State University
2 Univ. of Texas at Austin
3 University of Georgia
4 UCLA
5 University of Virginia
6 Univ. of Southern California
7 University of Florida
8 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
9 Univ. of Mississippi
10 Baylor University
11 Stanford University
12 Univ. of Tulsa
13 University of Illinois
14 University of Michigan
15 Texas A&M University
16 LSU
17 Florida State University
18 Oklahoma State University
19 University of Alabama
20 Pepperdine
21 Wake Forest University
22 North Carolina
23 Univ. of Miami (Florida)
24 California
25 Univ. of Notre Dame