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SEC TENNIS
The headline at the top of this page pretty says the most important thing about SEC tennis. UGA -- winning it all -- back-to-back.
However, tennis is a difficult sport to rank the conferences in. For one thing, you have both Men's and Women's teams. Then you have competitions for Team Champions, Singles Champions, and Doubles Champions. So, all of those different categories have to be taken into account in figuring out who has the best overall tennis program.
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Here's our ranking with an explanation of why.
1. Pac-10 UCLA won the Women's NCAA Tennis Championship last year and Stanford won it 7 of the past 11 years before that. In fact, since 1982 (when the Woman's NCAA Championship began) Stanford has won 15 times and Southern Cal has won twice (so 17 of 25 championships. On the Men's side, the Pac-10 has won the team championship 6 of the past 10 years and that has been a comparatively weak period as before that, all the way back to 1946, the Pac-10 (UCLA, Stanford or USC) won almost every year. As far as the final top-25 team rankings in 2006, the Pac-10 averaged 4.5 teams in the top 25 when you combine the men's and women's polls. This is second only to the ACC.
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2. SEC It's a tough call for 2d place between the SEC and ACC. I give the nod to the Southeastern Conference because overall it has more teams (particularly the Georgia Men and Florida Women) at the top. The SEC has more NCAA Tennis Championships. The ACC has more teams in the top 25, but they just don't have any championships to show for it. The Georgia Men won the NCAA Championship in 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, and now 2007 and 2008. They came in second 8 times since 1989 – including 2006 (losing to Pepperdine). SEC Tennis has also had 4 other teams come in second 5 times since 1988. On the Women's side, Florida won the NCAA Tennis Team Championship 4 times since 1992. Georgia won it twice. Florida also came in second 6 times since 1988 and made it to the Semi-finals in 2008; Georgia and Vanderbilt have each come in second once since 1987. The current 2009 college tennis poll has 6 men's and 6 women's SEC Tennis teams in the top 25.
3. ACC The ACC has been completely shut out of NCAA Tennis Team Championships on both the Men's and Women's side. Miami was the Women's Team NCAA runner-up in 2006. [Miami's women's team was also runner up in 1985 and the men's team in 1975 – but Miami was not in the ACC then). It is really surprising since the ACC had the most teams in the top 25 final 2006 poll – 6 on the Men's side and 7 in the Women's poll. Duke is the best of the bunch, but no higher than 6th in either poll.
4. Big-12 Texas and Baylor finished ranked 3rd and 4th in the final 2006 Men's poll. Baylor was 5th in the Women's poll. Baylor also won the 2004 Men's NCAA Tennis Championship and came in second in 2005. Texas came in 2d in the Women's 2005 Team Championship. The Big-12 had 4 teams in the Men's final 2006 poll; 2 in the Women's.
5. Big Ten Not much to talk about. Illinois won the 2003 Men's Team Championship. The Big Ten had 2 teams in the final 2006 Men's poll and only one in the final Women's poll.
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1. Georgia Bulldogs Certainly the best SEC tennis program. Currently UGA's men are ranked 3d nationally; the Lady Bulldogs - 6th. [You can make a solid argument that Georgia has the best tennis program in the country. If you just look at Men's tennis – I'd agree. But certainly Stanford has recently dominated Women's tennis and has a very strong Men's program as well. So, overall, I'd give the nod to Stanford.] But, as stated above, the Georgia Bulldog Men won the NCAA Tennis Championship in 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2007 and 2008. They came in second 8 times since 1989 – including 2006 (lost to Pepperdine). The Georgia Bulldog Women have won the NCAA championship twice and finished second to Stanford in 2004 and 2005. Georgia finished 2006 ranked #1 in the country in the final poll, but came in second to Pepperdine in the NCAA Tennis Championship. Georgia's Men's team finished 2006 with a perfect 11-0 record in the SEC and 30-1 overall. They won the SEC Tennis tournament.
2. Florida Gators The Lady Gators are the best SEC tennis women’s team. In fact they are probably second to Stanford nationally. They’ve won the NCAA Women’s Tennis Team Championship four times, the last in 2003. They’ve also come in second in the nation six times since 1988. Last season, the Lady Gators ended up making the semifinals of the NCAA Tennis tournament. They are ranked 7th nationally now. As for the Florida men’s team – they are quite solid. They are ranked 10th nationally right now.
3. Tennessee Volunteers Tennessee currently has both it's men's and women's tennis teams ranked in the top 25 nationally. The men are 8th; the women 24th. The men's team finished second in the NCAA tournament in 1990 (lost to Stanford) and 2001 (lost to Georgia). 4. Ole Miss Rebels The Ole Miss Men’s tennis team is ranked 9th currently. It's historically strong. For instance, in 2006 it won the SEC West with an 8-3 record and were 22-6 overall and finished the season ranked 13th nationally. The Ole Miss men’s team came in second in the NCAA tournament in 1995. They also won the SEC Tennis Tournament in 2004 and tied for the SEC Tennis Tournament championship (with Florida) in 2005.
5. Louisiana State Tigers The LSU Men’s tennis team is currently ranked 19th nationally. In 1988 the Tigers' men's team was NCAA Runner-Up.
6. Kentucky Wildcats The Kentucky Women's team is ranked 23d nationally currently.
7. Vanderbilt Commodores The Vandy Women’s tennis team is historically strong. Right now the Lady Dores' are ranked 12th. The Commodores Men's tennis team came in second in the NCAA Tennis Tournament in 2003. Unfortunately, they've been sliding downhill since.
8.Arkansas Razorbacks The Razorback Women’s tennis team is ranked 14th nationally.
10. Alabama Crimson Tide The Alabama Men’s tennis team is ranked 23d nationally.
11. Auburn Tigers
12. Mississippi State Bulldogs
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2008 - 2009 Womens College Tennis Conference Rankings
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For womens NCAA Div. I Tennis, the best conference would be ACC, no doubt. Not only individually, Duke and Miami as a team are most formidable.
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