As you all know, rankings are a bit of a hot topic all the time in Division III Tennis. Rankings oftentimes don’t come out fast enough for them to always reflect the comings and goings of the busy DIII schedule. The writers at DIII Tennis have decided that we will be doing weekly rankings (power rankings, if you may) that reflect where we think the rankings should look like at that given point in time. Without further ado, please see below for current ITA rankings, all of our picks, and a composite ranking. Composite rankings have been determined by a very complicated system in which we assign point values to each ranking spot. Obviously, the complicated part was a joke.
Current ITA Rankings | D3AS Rankings | D3West Rankings | D3 Central Rankings | D3NE Rankings | Composite Ranking | |
1 | Williams | CMS | CMS | CMS | CMS | CMS |
2 | CMS | Amherst | Amherst | Trinity TX | Emory | Amherst |
3 | Amherst | Emory | Middlebury | Amherst | Amherst | Emory |
4 | Wash U | Middlebury | Trinity TX | Emory | Middlebury | Middlebury |
5 | Kenyon | Trinity TX | Emory | Middlebury | Williams | Trinity TX |
6 | Emory | Williams | Williams | Williams | Trinity TX | Williams |
7 | Cal Lutheran | Kenyon | Bowdoin | Wash U | Bowdoin | Kenyon |
8 | Trinity TX | Wash U | Wash U | Kenyon | Kenyon | Wash U |
9 | Middlebury | Cal Lutheran | Kenyon | Johns Hopkins | Johns Hopkins | Bowdoin |
10 | Johns Hopkins | Bowdoin | Johns Hopkins | Carnegie Mellon | Wash U | Johns Hopkins |
11 | Bowdoin | Johns Hopkins | Carnegie Mellon | Case Western | Carnegie Mellon | Carnegie Mellon |
12 | UCSC | Case Western | Case Western | Bowdoin | Case Western | Case Western |
13 | Case Western | Carnegie Mellon | Redlands | Cal Lutheran | Pomona | Cal Lutheran |
14 | Redlands | Redlands | Whitman | Whitman | Redlands | Redlands |
15 | UT Tyler | Whitman | Pomona | Redlands | Cal Lutheran | Whitman |
16 | Whitman | Pomona | Skidmore | Pomona | Whitman | Pomona |
17 | Pomona-Pitzer | Gustavus Adolphus | Bates | Bates | Skidmore | Bates |
18 | Gustavus Adolphus | UW-Whitewater | Cal Lutheran | Gustavus Adolphus | Wesleyan College | Skidmore |
19 | Carnegie Mellon | Bates | Gustavus Adolphus | Washington & Lee | North Carolina Wesleyan | Gustavus Adolphus |
20 | North Carolina Wesleyan | Washington & Lee | UCSC | Skidmore | Bates | Washington & Lee |
21 | Whittier | Skidmore | Washington & Lee | Whittier | Gustavus Adolphus | North Carolina Wesleyan |
22 | Washington & Lee | UCSC | North Carolina Wesleyan | UT-Tyler | MIT | UW-Whitewater |
23 | Bates | North Carolina Wesleyan | Whittier | North Carolina Wesleyan | UCSC | UCSC |
24 | UW-Whitewater | UT-Tyler | MIT | UW-Whitewater | UW-Whitewater | Whittier |
25 | Skidmore | Whittier | Tufts | Wesleyan College | Washington & Lee | MIT |
26 | MIT | MIT | UW-Whitewater | Mary Washington | Whittier | Wesleyan College |
27 | Stevens Tech | Mary Washington | Mary Washington | MIT | Tufts | UT-Tyler |
28 | Mary Washington | Chicago | Stevens | Chicago | Mary Washington | Mary Washington |
29 | UT-Dallas | Wesleyan College | UT-Tyler | UCSC | Stevens | Tufts |
30 | Chicago | Stevens | Chicago | Stevens | UT-Tyler | Chicago |
NR | UT Dallas | Wesleyan College | Tufts | Chicago | Stevens | |
NR | Tufts | UT-Dallas | Denison | Trinity Ct | UT Dallas |
This is meant to spark some debate!! Please feel free to give us your thoughts in the comments.
Wesleyan University not Wesleyan College….like what Mike Fried is building up in Middletown, CT….one more good recruiting class away from top 10-15…great article…keep up the terrific work….GO D3 Tennis!…