No. 4 Ohio State Takes on No. 14 Vanderbilt in NCAA Super Regional

COLUMBUS, Ohio – After two wins at home last weekend, the No. 3 seed and No. 4 ranked Ohio State women's tennis team will host No. 14 Vanderbilt in an NCAA Championship Super Regional match at 1 p.m. Saturday in Columbus. Admission and parking are free, with the match scheduled to be played outside at the Auer Tennis Complex. In the event of inclement weather, play will be moved inside the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. Video and Live Results

The Buckeyes are 25-4 on the year, with the Commodores 22-9. Ohio State advanced to the third round with 4-0 wins at home over Youngstown State and Notre Dame last weekend, while Vandy topped Xavier and Clemson in Nashville to earn its spot among the final 16. This is the fourth time in the last five years Ohio State and Vandy are meeting in the NCAA Tournament in Columbus, with each team picking up two wins in the stretch, all in the second round. This is the first time the programs will face off in the Super Regional round.

Ohio State and the NCAA Tournament

This is the sixth time the Buckeyes have reached the third round of the NCAA Tournament, including the third time in the last four years.
Before the Super Regional setup began in 2022, the Buckeyes advanced to the Round of 16 at the final site three times – 2016, 2017 and 2021.
The Buckeyes traveled to a Super Regional at Stanford in 2023 and hosted LSU in a Super Regional match last season, dropping both matches.
Ohio State is looking to make the program's third appearance in the quarterfinals (2016, 2017).
Overall, the Buckeyes are making the 12th consecutive and 22nd overall NCAA Tournament appearance.
This is the eighth time overall, and the sixth year in a row, the Buckeyes were selected to host first and second round matches as a Top 16 seed and it is the fourth time the team was seeded among the top four (No. 3 in 2017, No. 4 in 2016 and 2025).
Ohio State is 14-3 at home in NCAA action, with an 11-0 ledger in the first round, 3-2 mark in the second round and 0-1 record in the Super Regionals.
The team's first NCAA appearance was in 1996. The Buckeyes qualified six years in a row from 1999-04, had a three-year stretch from 2008-10 and began the most recent streak in 2014 (with no tournament in 2020).
Under head coach Melissa Schaub, the Buckeyes are 17-11 in NCAA play and have Round of 16/Super Regional (2021, 2023, 2025, 2026), quarterfinal (2016) and semifinal (2017) appearances.

Buckeyes vs. Commodores

The Buckeyes are 6-3 all-time vs. Vanderbilt, with a 2-2 ledger in the NCAA Tournament, with all four matches in the second round and in Columbus from 2021-24.
The last meeting between the teams was a 4-3 Vandy win in the NCAA Tournament second round in 2024. In 2023, Ohio State posted a 4-0 victory over the Commodores. Vandy was a 4-2 winner in 2022 and Ohio State prevailed 4-3 in 2021.
The series started in 1976 and also includes a home match and a neutral site match at ITA National Indoors in 2016 and matches in Nashville in 2017 and 2020.
Vanderbilt, ranked 14th and the NCAA Tournament No. 14 seed, is 22-9 on the year and was 9-6 in SEC play. Last weekend, the squad downed Xavier 4-0 and No. 24 Clemson 4-1 to earn a spot in the Super Regionals.
In singles, Bridget Stammel is ranked 12th, with Celia-Belle Mohr No. 30 and Valeria Ray No. 33. In doubles, Sophia Webster and Mohr are ranked seventh and Ray and Stammel are No. 15.

Buckeye This and That

Ohio State is 25-4 on the year and has 13 shutout victories, including in seven of the last 10 matches.
In the two 4-0 wins in the NCAA tournament last week, six Buckeyes recorded a singles win, while the doubles teams of Luciana Perry/Flora Johnson and Sophia Cisse-Ignatiev/Audrey Spencer were each 2-0. Alessia Cau, Johnson and Perry won against Youngstown State and Nishino, Hephzibah Oluwadare and Spencer each notched a singles win vs. Notre Dame.
This is the sixth year in a row, and the ninth time in program history, the Buckeyes have reached the 20-win mark. The 25 wins this year are the third-most in school history. The 2017 team ranks first with 32 wins and the 2016 squad recorded 31 victories.
In dual matches, Audrey Spencer (16-2) and Nao Nishino (16-5) lead the team with 16 wins each, followed by Teah Chavez (15-3) and Luciana Perry (14-4).
Overall, Nishino has a team-best 30 victories this year, with Perry and Spencer next weith 22 and Chavez notching 21.
As a team, the Buckeyes are 91-27 in singles in dual matches. The squad is 19-2 on court four, 15-2 on court one and 16-5 on courts two and six, with a 14-4 mark on court five and 11-9 ledger on court three.
The Buckeyes have won the doubles point in 13 of the last 15 matches. The tandem of Johnson and Perry leads Ohio State with a 15-3 mark this spring, while Cisse-Ignatiev and Spencer are 12-4 in dual play. Courts one and three each have 15 wins in dual play and court two has posted 12 victories this spring.
The ITA announced Ohio State will serve as a host school for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in both 2027 and 2028. A joint host with Michigan, both schools will host opening rounds of play each year. Michigan will host the semifinals and final in 2027 and Ohio State will host the semifinals and final in 2028. Host schools are automatically in the 16-team tournament field.

In the Rankings

The Buckeyes are ranked fourth in the most recent ITA team rankings, their 12th straight release in the Top 5, reaching as high as No. 2
The squad started the season No. 13 and was No. 12 in the second poll, moving to No. 10 Jan. 28.
In the singles rankings last week, Luciana Perry and Teah Chavez remained in the Top 5 at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively. It was the eighth straight release Ohio State has had two of the nation's Top 5 ranked singles players.
Earlier this season, Chavez and Perry became the second and third Buckeyes to earn a spot in the singles Top 3, joining Francesca Di Lorenzo, who was as high as No. 1 in 2016 and '17. Chavez has been as high as No. 2, with Perry reaching No. 3.
Perry has been in the Top 10 since Dec. 20, 2024 and Chavez has been in the Top 20 since the final rankings of 2025.
In singles, Nao Nishino was 76th and Audrey Spencer was No. 123 in the most recent rankings.
In doubles, the duo of Flora Johnson and Perry was a season-best 23rd, with the tandem of Hephzibah Oluwadare and Chavez 34th and Spencer and Nishino No. 85.
Fourteen teams the Buckeyes have faced this season were ranked in the Top 25 at the time of the match, including three in the Top 5. Last week, eight Buckeye opponents were in the Top 15 - No. 2 Georgia, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 5 North Carolina, No. 7 Virginia, No. 8 NC State, No. 11 Pepperdine, No. 12 Michigan, No. 13 USC and No. 15 Duke.

Up Next

The final three rounds of the NCAA Tournament will be held May 15-17 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
The winner of the match between the Buckeyes and Commodores will take on the winner of the match between No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 11 Pepperdine in the quarterfinals. The other Super Regional matchups on the Buckeyes' side of the bracket are No. 2 Auburn vs. No. 15 Duke and No. 7 Virginia vs. No. 10 LSU.
The Top 15 seeds all advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament, with No. 16 Arizona State the only seed to lose (4-3 to UCLA).

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