DALLAS – Tim Ruetzel won a three-set battle at No. 6 singles as Tulane ended USF's four-year hold on the American Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Championship title with a 4-3 win against the Bulls in Sunday's final at Turpin Stadium.
The Green Wave dropped the doubles point, but took four of the six singles matches to win its first American Athletic Conference title. Tulane senior Constantin Schmitz, the Green Wave's No. 1 player who won his singles matches in both the semifinals and final, was chosen as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
USF, which had not lost a match in the American Athletic Conference Championship since the league's inception, battled back from a 3-1 deficit Sunday to tie the match at 3-3 and force a winner-take-all matchup at No.