The 2024 NCAA tennis championships are down to the final rounds, with a top-heavy men’s bracket and wide-open women’s field playing for a national title in Stillwater, Okla.
After falling in the final last year, top-seeded Ohio State is the favorite to take the men’s crown in 2024. The Buckeyes have been dominant all season, winning the national indoor title in February and compiling a 33-1 record entering the quarterfinals. That lone loss, however, came at No. 2 seed Texas in March, and a Longhorns team led by two of the top five-ranked singles players in the country, No. 2 Eliot Spizzirri and No. 5 Micah Braswell, will have a great shot at the title.
One more powerhouse will have something to say about that, however: two-time defending national champion Virginia is the third seed and cannot be overlooked after winning six titles since 2013, including that defeat of the Buckeyes in the 2023 championship match.
The women’s side is perhaps more difficult to handicap after top seed and championship host Oklahoma State lost to 16th seed Tennessee in the super regionals. Defending champion and No. 4 seed North Carolina also got bounced by a lower-seeded SEC team in the supers, falling at home to No. 13 Texas A&M.
That leaves No. 2 seed Stanford and No. 3 seed…
