The Francis Marion University men's tennis team is ranked 46th in the final 2022 Division II Men's Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Collegiate Tennis National Team Rankings sponsored by Tennis-Point.
The young 2022 Patriot squad was made up of only freshmen and sophomores and finished with a 14-7 mark under the direction of first-year head coach
Jay Evans. The win total represented a 12-win improvement over the 2021 campaign. Six of the team's seven losses were to squads that are ranked 37th or high in the final poll, while FMU registered four victories over teams in the final ranking.
In the team's first season as a member of Conference Carolinas, FMU placed fifth during the regular season and then advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament.
It marks the 28th time in the 52-year history of the Patriot program that Francis Marion has appears in a final national poll, including 25 of the past 27 seasons.