Photo by Carlos Barron
Posted: Mar 13, 2020
The Southwestern University Pirates men's tennis team wraps up its season with the highest national ranking in program history, moving up from No. 24 to No. 23 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) polls.
The ITA Rankings are determined by coaches polling, covering the top 40 teams in the nation.
Southwestern opened the season ranked No. 30 and climbed to No. 24 on Feb. 27. With competition cancelled for the rest of spring, the Pirates end their season with a 6-1 record, in including 4-1 on the road and 1-1 versus nationally ranked opponents.
| RANK | SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| 1 | Emory University |
| 2 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges |
| 3 | Middlebury College |
| 4 | Univ. of Chicago |
| 5 | Amherst College |
| 6 | Wesleyan University |
| 7 | Bowdoin College |
| 8 | Brandeis University |
| 9 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 10 | Williams College |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 12 | Trinity University (Texas) |
| 13 | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| 14 | Kenyon College |
| 15 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 16 | University of Mary Washington |
| 17 | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
| 18 | Tufts University |
| 19 | Skidmore College |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 21 | Univ. of the South |
| 22 | California Institute of Technology |
| 23 | Southwestern University (TX) |
| 24 | Univ. of Redlands |
| 25 | MIT |
| 26 | Kalamazoo College |
| 27 | Denison University |
| 28 | Whitman College |
| 29 | George Fox University |
| 30 | Swarthmore College |
| 31 | North Carolina Wesleyan |
| 32 | Washington & Lee University |
| 33 | Salisbury University |
| 34 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 35 | Hobart College |
| 36 | New York University |
| 37 | Colby College |
| 38 | Babson College |
| 39 | Vassar College |
| 40 | University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
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