BATON ROUGE — The LSU men’s tennis team moved up two spots to No. 11 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll released Tuesday.
The Tigers (11-3, 3-3) split matches over the weekend with a 5-2 loss Friday to fourth-ranked Ole Miss and a 6-1 win Sunday over 26th-ranked Mississippi State. LSU is currently second in the SEC West behind Ole Miss. The Rebels lead the entire league with a 7-0 conference mark.
LSU is ranked third among SEC teams, behind Ole Miss and No. 10 Georgia. Florida, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Arkansas are also ranked among the top-25.
New individual rankings were not released this week. LSU’s Ken Skupski was ranked 28th in singles in last week’s poll. Bryan Fisher and Jason Hazley were ranked 23rd in doubles and Skupski and Peter Richman were 34th.
LSU faces SEC Western Division rivals Auburn and Alabama on the road this weekend.
ITA Rankings — NCAA Division I Men’s Team
March 30, 2004
Rank Avg School
1 82.6 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2 76.73 Baylor University
3 71.96 Univ. of Mississippi
4 66.98 Univ. of Southern California
5 62.74 UCLA
6 61.56 Duke University
7 56.03 Rice University
8 55.28 Virginia Commonwealth University
9 52.22 Stanford University
10 50.98 Univ. of Georgia
11 50.52 Louisiana State University
12 50 University of Virginia
13 49.23 University of Florida
14 45.67 Texas Christian University
15 41.53 Harvard University
16 36.55 Ohio State University
17 36.13 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
18 36 UNC Chapel Hill
19 34.11 University of Washington
20 33.29 Vanderbilt University
21 33.28 Univ. of Arizona
22 32.88 Univ. of Kentucky
23 30.99 Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
24 29.32 Tulane University
25 26.27 Texas A&M University