The USA South Athletic Conference's men's tennis coaches have released their 2026 preseason poll. Head coaches do not vote for their own teams in the balloting.

Looking to capture a USA South regular season crown and the tournament title for the 17th straight year, N.C. Wesleyan was placed atop the rankings thanks to receiving 25 total points and five of the possible seven first place votes. The Battling Bishops finished last season with an unblemished 6-0 Conference record which extended their regular season winning streak against League opponents to 122 matches. Methodist, who fell to N.C. Wesleyan in last year's USA South tournament finals, was second in the poll with 20 points and the final first place vote while Pfeiffer rounded out the top-three with 18 points.

N.C. Wesleyan is picked to capture the USA South title for the 15th consecutive year and they've come through each of those times. Since the Conference's first men's tennis preseason poll in 2003, the team chosen first has won the Conference championship 16 out of the 22 years. The last year a preseason favorite did not with the championship was 2009. The six years in which the preseason favorites did not win the League title, the eventual winners were chosen as the second-place team by the coaches in that particular poll.

The 2026 USA South Men's Tennis Tournament will feature the top-four seeded teams with all matches taking place on the campus of N.C. Wesleyan on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25.