Before I get going with the preview, a quick insight. You ever notice how the isolated West region teams tend to only play each other? Trinity, Tyler, Whitman, and Santa Cruz have a total of 3 or 4 non-regional ranked matches this year. The reason for this is the respective coaches are doing their best…
I know how you guys like your DIII coverage to happen hours after the event, so here I am obliging you insatiable appetites. I’ll go team-by-team. 1. CMS D3Central mentioned on Twitter that one of the things we learned from the tournament is that CMS is beatable. Really? Is that what we learned? Because I…
Well, it was quite a weekend in Walla Walla, Washington. Even though CMS ended up dominating the competition, there were two absolute barnburner matches, and we had the unique experience of being able to watch an entire DIII match on all courts in real time, which was pretty cool. Without dwelling on it too much,…
I’ve said this several times, but Texas-Tyler is one of the most enigmatic teams in DIII tennis. On the surface, they have no business being successful. The school has none of the usual aspects of a successful DIII tennis program: Good academics? Nope Desireable location? Uhhh… hehe International recruiting niche? Not even The only thing…
With Spring Break Walla Walla officially over, we can now turn our attention to another week of excellent West coast tennis (though a SBWW recap will come out at some point this week). Other matches between The West and The Rest will be thoroughly covered in the other team-by-team previews, but matches between West region…
I’ve made no secret of how excited I am for Spring Break Walla Walla. Why are you so excited for two great teams and two mediocre teams to play a quad where only two of the matches are probably going to be competitive, you might ask? Well, for you naive readers out there, I’ve compiled…
This is a longwinded recap of UCSC’s 5-4 win over Whittier this past weekend. Basically what happened in the match was the Team of Destiny came up huge, recovering from a late break at #2 doubles to eventually win in an epic tiebreaker, to give Cruz a 2-1 lead after doubles. Then, the Earlham transfer…
Before we start this post, I want you all to just take a second and let the excitement of Indoors just wash over you… Because this weekend isn’t going to be anything like that. The only big match we have on the West-region docket is Whittier vs. UCSC, and I have to say this should…
Get your unpopular opinion puffin memes ready because you’re about to read something that’s heresy as far as The Guru is concerned. Am I the only person here who thinks that success in DIII tennis has almost nothing to do with the history of the program? Don’t get me wrong, I understand that the programs…
Well, team. I’m not going to do a pre-season individuals ranking because I think it would be absolutely silly to try without knowing who the #1 singles players are from the various schools. Common sense would say that Wood is a lock from CMS, but if he plays behind Butts, who knows? Same situation for…