100 consecutive top-25 appearances for No. 7 Gold Rush

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana men's tennis reached a milestone Tuesday with its 100th consecutive appearance in the NAIA coaches top 25 poll. The Gold Rush (10-4) climbed from eighth to seventh after beating three top-25 teams since the previous poll.
     
XULA began its top-25 streak on April 4, 2007. It's the longest active streak in NAIA men's tennis.
     
The XULA men beat William Woods 5-1 at home Friday. It was the Owls' first loss this season, and it helped dropped them from fourth to ninth.
     
Georgia Gwinnett, winner of its last 100 dual matches, is a unanimous No. 1 for the 42nd consecutive poll.     

Also Tuesday, XULA coach Alan Green announced schedule changes. His Gold Rush will visit No. 2 Reinhardt at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, No. 13 Point at 3 p.m. EDT Saturday and Texas A&M-Texarkana in a neutral-site match in Pensacola, Fla., at 9 a.m. Sunday.
     
Next for the XULA men and women will be Lewis-Clark State at 3 p.m. Thursday at XULA Tennis Center.
     
The Gold Rush active poll streaks:
     •  100 consecutive appearances in the top 25 . . . streak began April 4, 2007.
     •  91 consecutive appearances in the top 20 . . . streak began April 30, 2008.
     •  76 consecutive appearances in the top 15 . . . streak began Feb. 1, 2011.
     •  70 consecutive appearances in the top 10 . . . streak began May 3, 2011.
 

NAIA Men's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 Poll (first-place votes in parentheses — records through March 24)

RANK	PREVIOUS	SCHOOL	RECORD	POINTS
1	1	Georgia Gwinnett (14)	17-0	374
2	2	Reinhardt (Ga.)	8-0	361
3	3	Cardinal Stritch (Wis.)	8-4	350
4	6	Middle Georgia State	10-2	330
5	5	Keiser (Fla.)	12-4	324
6	9	William Carey (Miss.)	7-2	310
7	8	Xavier (La.)	10-4	306
8	7	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	2-2	295
9	4	William Woods (Mo.)	5-2	284
10	10	Tennessee Wesleyan	8-2	262
11	10	Campbellsville (Ky.)	11-1	250
12	12	Arizona Christian	12-0	240
13	13	Point (Ga.)	8-5	239
14	14	Cumberland (Tenn.)	7-4	217
15	15	Mobile (Ala.)	8-2	207
16	16	Union (Ky.)	5-6	190
17	17	Hope International (Calif.)	15-3	185
18	19	Cumberlands (Ky.)	5-4	166
19	18	McPherson (Kan.)	0-4	141
20	20	Marian (Ind.)	19-5	140
21	23	Missouri Valley	7-4	139
22	21	Coastal Georgia	9-4	126
23	21	Northwestern Ohio	8-6	112
24	24	Indiana Wesleyan	20-7	107
25	25	Westmont (Calif.)	4-6	85

Dropped from the Top 25: None
Others Receiving Votes: Asbury (Ky.) 73, Texas A&M-Texarkana 37, Loyola (La.) 36, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 23, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 18, Southwestern (Kan.) 12, Lindenwood-Belleville (Ill.) 12, Webber International (Fla.) 9, Hastings (Neb.) 6, Judson (Ill.) 3.

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications
Department of Athletics & Recreation
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA 
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