Month: May 2012

Tennisrecruiting.net asked d3tennis and I to write a D-III national championship preview, and it’s been published.

10) What about the bracket initially pops out? Obviously three main things that I noticed. First of all, Redlands getting in over Bates was a big surprise for me. As I stated, I think Redlands serves very little purpose in this tournament as a team that has about a 5% chance to make the Sweet…

Go to town on this. http://i.turner.ncaa.com/dr/ncaa/ncaa/release/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/tennis-men_d3_2011.pdf

SCIAC Since the SCIAC final and 3rd place matches were yesterday, and we’ve all had a little time to digest what happened, I’ll start with that Cal Lutheran def. Redlands 5-4 There was obviously a little bit of controversy surrounding this match, but I think it’s time we get past it and focus on the…

A lot to talk about here, but first of all lets run down the expected field of 43: Pool A (The winning team from each of the 30 conferences who have automatic bids to the tournament): Allegheny Mountain- PSU-Behrend ASW-UT Tyler Capital–UMW Centennial JHU CUNY–Baruch Colonial–Marywood Commonwealth Coast–Nichols Commonwealth–Elizabethtown Empire 8–Stevens Freedom–Wilkes Heartland–Earlham IIAC–Coe Landmark–Drew…

NESCAC Bowdoin def. Trinity (CT) 5-0 This match wasn’t really close at all. Trinity had a chance to get a point at #2 doubles, but they couldn’t capitalize, and they never really had a chance anyways. Trinity’s season is definitely over, and this match doesn’t really mean anything except perhaps that Bowdoin will be more…

Here is the link to the latest ITA rankings. I usually try to be pretty understanding with the rankings committee, but this time, they’ve made some extremely arbitrary moves that a lot of teams have a right to be upset with. Here’s a list of grievances: 1. OK, I think all of my readers can agree…

The NESCAC tournament is being hosted by Williams, and it is single-elimination format, so there’s no opportunity for an interesting NCAA-seeding-implication-filled rematch between Middlebury and Bowdoin in a potential 3rd place match. Ironically, the most important match of the tournament is probably taking place in the quarterfinals. Here are the seedings: 1. Amherst 2. Williams…

It’s time to start thinking about the two huge events of the weekend: the SCIAC and NESCAC tournaments. The SCIAC tournament is being hosted by Redlands this year, and as far as I know, the seeding for the SCIAC tournament goes as such: 1. CMS 2. Cal Lutheran 3. Pomona-Pitzer 4. Redlands 5. Whittier 6.…

I’ll try to simplify this the best I can. The way d3tennisguy and I see things, Whitman is the 7th overall seed and Trinity TX is the 8th overall seed. Both of these teams need to be flown somewhere due to the 500-mile rule. The other team that is causing a dilemma is Gustavus. They…