Big 12 Releases Preseason Polls for Men's and Women's Tennis

Conference play has been expanded in 2024 with the addition of new schools. The men's side now has eight teams with the addition of BYU and UCF. All four of the new schools - BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF - play women's tennis, so all 14 teams in the league will compete for that title. 

In addition to the Big 12 preseason polls, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I Men’s Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll was released this week. Virginia was slated at the top preseason men's program in the nation. The Horned Frogs are ranked No. 4 in the preseason poll.

The No. 4 preseason ITA team ranking marks the third consecutive year TCU will start the season ranked inside the top-five. TCU slotted in at No. 3 to commence the 2023 campaign and began the 2022 season ranked fifth. The Horned Frogs went on to win the ITA Indoor National Championships both times.

The Horned Frogs have spent 199 consecutive weeks inside the top-10 of the ITA rankings and earned nine consecutive top-10 final ITA team rankings. TCU is also the only program in the country that has earned a top-10 final ITA team ranking every year since 2015.

Big 12 Men's Tennis Preseason Poll

1. Texas (7) - 49 points

2. TCU (1) - 43 points

3. Oklahoma State - 33 points

4. Baylor - 32 points

5. Oklahoma - 28 points

6. (TIE) Texas Tech, UCF - 16 points

8. BYU - 7 points

_{First-place votes are indicated in parentheses. Coaches are not allowed to place their own team first.} 

The Horned Frogs have now attained a first or second place billing in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches’ Poll in seven of its 12 seasons of conference affiliation. TCU has been predicted to claim the conference crown six times (2016-18, 2021-23).

TCU has won a conference-leading eight Big 12 championships – five regular season, three tournament – since 2015. The program won its third Big 12 Championship tournament title in April, defeating Texas 4-1.

ITA Men’s Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll

1. Virginia 

2. Ohio State

3. Texas

4. TCU

5. South Carolina

6. Tennessee

7. USC

8. Duke

9. Stanford

10. Harvard

16. Arizona

19. Texas A&M

22. Oklahoma

25. Baylor

_{Bold teams = Big 12 Conference teams}

Big 12 Women's Tennis Preseason Poll

1. Oklahoma State (8) - 161 points

2. Texas (4) - 160 points

3. Oklahoma (1) - 148 points

4. UCF - 126 points

5. Baylor (1) - 111 points

6. Texas Tech - 108 points

7. Kansas - 103 points

8. TCU - 78 points

9. BYU  - 66 points

10. Kansas State - 64 points

11. Iowa State - 46 points

12. West Virginia - 44 points

13. Cincinnati - 32 points

14. Houston - 27 points

Next up: The TCU Men's Tennis Team's 2024 season begins at 5:30 p.m. on January 24 against Abilene Christian in Fort Worth. The TCU Women's Tennis Team's season begins January 12 at the Miami Invitational in Coral Gables, Florida