NCAA Tennis Championships

What are the NCAA Tennis Championships?

The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Tennis Championships decide the national team champions of Division I college tennis and its singles and doubles champions. The NCAA's 2025–26 prechampionship manual says the team championships are conducted as 64-team, single-elimination tournaments for each gender, and that the singles and doubles brackets consist of 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams per gender.^[2] This page covers Division I.

Who organizes them?

The National Collegiate Athletic Association conducts the championships through Division I and publishes their dates, sites, manuals and records books.^[1] The Intercollegiate Tennis Association describes itself as the governing body of college tennis, overseeing varsity tennis in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, the NAIA and junior and community colleges.^[7] The NCAA's selection criteria use the ITA rankings, which the prechampionship manual says represent a combination of won-lost record, strength of schedule, significant wins and significant losses.^[2] The USTA's National Campus in Orlando has hosted editions in partnership with the University of Central Florida.^[6]

When and where are they held?

The team championships run through the spring. For 2026 the manual set first and second rounds at a minimum of 16 campus sites on May 1–3, super regionals at a minimum of eight sites on May 8–9, and the finals at the University of Georgia in Athens, with the men's championship on May 14–17 and the women's on May 15–17.^[2] The singles and doubles championships are now scheduled separately in the fall: the manual placed the 2025 singles and doubles tournament at the USTA National Campus in Orlando on November 18–23.^[2] The NCAA lists the next individual championship for November 17–22, 2026 and the next team championship for May 20–29, 2027, both at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens.^[1] Hosts named in the NCAA records books for the past decade include Georgia, Baylor, Tulsa, Wake Forest and Illinois.^[3][4] The USTA says its National Campus hosted in 2019, 2021 and 2023, and announced on 2 October 2024 that it had been awarded the 2027 singles and doubles and the 2028 championships.^[6] The NCAA's 2025–26 manual states that the singles, doubles and team competition of the 2026–27 championships will be hosted by the University of Georgia, whether the singles and doubles are held in the fall or the spring.^[2]

Season is the year of the team final; Pool / Format gives the men's (M) and women's (W) team champions; Host cities gives the host or site as the NCAA men's and women's records books print it.^[3][4] For 2021 both records books print North Carolina, while the USTA states that its National Campus in Orlando hosted in 2021.^[6] 2026 champions as reported by the ITA.^[5]

Since when do they exist?

The NCAA men's records book says the championship was conducted by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association from 1883 to 1937 before the NCAA's administration; its list of team champions begins in 1946, and it records that a dual-match, single-elimination team championship was introduced in 1977.^[3] The women's records book lists team results from 1982, when Stanford won at Salt Lake City.^[4] The 2020 championships were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the men's records book.^[3]

How do teams and players qualify?

The 2025–26 prechampionship manual gives 27 conferences automatic qualification for the men's team bracket and 30 for the women's, with the remaining places filled by at-large selection to reach 64 teams per gender.^[2] The manual lists won-lost record and strength of schedule among its primary criteria, with the ITA rankings used to represent them, and head-to-head competition and results against common opponents among the further factors. Singles and doubles entrants fill fixed brackets of 64 players and 32 teams per gender.^[2]

Why do they matter?

The championships decide the NCAA's Division I team titles in tennis, and the NCAA records books list every team result since 1946 for men and 1982 for women, with attendance figures for most finals.^[3][4] The ITA reports that it oversees activities involving nearly 20,000 varsity college student-athletes, and more than 1,700 teams at all levels; the Division I team brackets admit 64 teams per gender.^[7]

Who competes?

Men's and women's teams from Division I member schools, selected as above, plus 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams per gender in the individual championships.^[2] In the 2026 finals, as reported by the ITA, fourth-seeded Virginia met second-seeded Texas and fourth-seeded Texas A&M met second-seeded Auburn.^[5] Virginia won 4-3, according to the University of Virginia, and Texas A&M won 4-1, according to Texas A&M Athletics.^[8][9] See also the junior-college NJCAA Tennis Championships.