Tennis fans, it’s been a great season. A West region team won the national championship for the first time since 2009, when a senior-laden Hansen-led team got hot on the doubles court and swept their way to a national championship. This Middlebury team looked to do the same after sweeping the Tigers, but the Stags were…
Good Evening, ladies and germs! The bracket is out, and it seems, given the circumstances, everyone is relatively happy with the result! Each #1 seed has been paired with a top 22 #2 seed, which is pretty remarkable considering the fact that 8 top 25 teams didn’t even make the tournament (including 4 in what…
Fresh off my Ojai Bracket Challenge victory, I’ll be writing this article with renewed swagger! As always, I am short on time, so I will be forgoing the team-by-team recap until after the SCIACs. With the final pre-selection regional singles and doubles rankings coming out later this week, however, I will chip in with my…
I’m feeling pretty terrible today – as in, I’ve been reduced to laying in bed in a Gryffindor onesie. This is bad for me because I am incapable of doing my actual work, but it’s good for Blog fans because these articles don’t usually require my full mental capacity. (Though I might make better picks…
West region fans, it deeply saddened me to punt last week’s West segment to Regional (who did a great job, btw, give the guy a hand), especially The Battle of Sixth Street looming, but I had a hard time telling the bossman, “yo, I know you pay me to do this, but I gotta take…
Preamble from D3West because I like to see my words on the screen. This article is the result of a whimsical tweet from D3AS and a whole lot of awesomeness from the guys in the Hen House. One unique aspect of the West region is that many of the teams in Southern California have these…
Friends, fans, and well-wishers, I want to apologize for providing what I would consider to be a sub-par blogging experience to my West region teams. As much as I love DIII tennis, sometimes life gets in the way. Alas, it is time for my fortnightly State Of The Region article. I will do a brief…
I’m going to start off this micropreview by pointing out that I picked every match correctly the first day: I picked every match correctly yesterday Now that that’s over with, we can get to the analysis. I actually had plans last night, so I didn’t really follow the matches very much, but here’s a microrecap…
Well, tennis fans, here we are. Round 1 of the Stag-Hen is officially over, and Round 2 starts shortly, which means you’re going to get my stream-of-consciousness rambling predictions for Round 2. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to watch or follow much of round one because I had to fill in for a friend in a…
As one commenter pointed out in the Power Rankings article, we bloggers need to get back to doing what we do best: butchering predictions and angering people with our analysis. Because the other writers are basically covering the West region matches by previewing and recapping Spring Breaks, the onus of responsibility falls on me to…