BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s tennis team rose two spots in the Campbell/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rankings to No. 32, the ITA announced Tuesday.
The move comes after LSU split weekend Southeastern Conference competition on the road against No. 10 Florida and a then-17th-ranked South Carolina.
LSU (7-9, 2-6 SEC), fell to the top 10 Gators, 5-2, but cruised to a 5-1 mark over the Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C.
Florida remained at No. 10 in the rankings while South Carolina dropped to No. 24, both of which contributed to a strong SEC presence in the rankings.
All twelve SEC teams appeared in the rankings with four in the top 10. In addition to Florida retaining the No. 10 slot, Georgia posted at No. 5, Tennessee held No. 4 and Ole Miss, LSU’s next opponent, remained at No. 2.
LSU’s match against No. 2 Ole Miss is slated for 1 p.m. on Friday and will kick-off a weekend of SEC competition as the Tigers follow Friday’s competition with a Sunday match against 69th-ranked Mississippi State at 1 p.m.
Men’s National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
NCAA Division I Tennis
April 7, 2009
Rank School
1 University of Virginia
2 Univ. of Mississippi
3 Ohio State University
4 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
5 University of Georgia
6 Univ. of Southern California
7 Baylor University
8 Stanford University
9 UCLA
10 University of Florida
11 University of Illinois
12 Texas A&M University
13 Univ. of Texas at Austin
14 University of Kentucky
15 University of Alabama
16 Florida State University
17 Pepperdine
18 Univ. of Arizona
19 Boise State University
20 Univ. of Notre Dame
21 University of Washington
22 Virginia Tech
23 Univ. of Miami (Florida)
24 University of South Carolina
25 Wake Forest University
26 Univ. of Louisville
27 Auburn University
28 Univ. of Tulsa
29 Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
30 Duke University
31 Oklahoma State University
32 LSU
33 Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
34 Univ. of Oklahoma
35 Texas Tech University
36 North Carolina
37 California
38 San Diego State University
39 Fresno State
40 Rice University
41 Univ. of New Mexico
42 Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
43 Virginia Commonwealth University
44 University of South Florida
45 TCU
46 University of Utah
47 Georgia Tech
48 Northwestern University
49 University of Michigan
50 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Men's Tennis No. 32 in Latest ITA Poll