NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: No. 4 Bowdoin vs No. 5 Wash U Welcome to the penultimate QF preview, boys and girls. This is the QF that the bloggers are most excited about, and the poll on the left side of the site says that you agree. We have D3AS and D3Regional (the headmaster and Hagrid of the…
2017 NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: No. 3 CMS vs No. 6 Wesleyan Welcome, boys and girls, to the second of our four NCAA Quarterfinal previews. CMS and Wesleyan have both had great seasons, but they have done so in different ways. Everybody knows that CMS has struggled mightily in doubles this spring, but have managed to…
NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: No. 1 Emory vs Williams In a match between two traditional DIII powers, Emory vs. Williams is the first of our UAA/NESCAC battles that we get to preview for NCAAs. While this will probably be the lesser matchup of the power conference battles, this has the opportunity to be a really good…
2017 NCAA QUARTERFINALS BY THE NUMBERS Happy NCAA-off week, boys and girls. While the Blog has been very busy with it’s traditional NCAA coverage, we thought we would mix it up a couple of times this week as well. Don’t worry, you will be getting all the standard match-by-match previews, but first I wanted to…
While the main event (Elite 8) is upon us, let us not forget that there were 16 teams prior to that battling it out for a chance to be there. Before that, 32, and before that, 43. All of these teams stories are important to what makes DIII, and while the Blog views some of…
REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/08-05/14 I know we usually end POTW after the regular season, but a wonderful weekend of NCAA Regionals deserves another installment! Fantastic tennis, some big upsets, and not a single person with the perfect quarterfinals in our bracket challenge. Check back through the week as The Blog will be continuing…
CMS Odds of making QF: 84% Power 6 Rating: 77.22 How They Got Here: Winning their 12th consecutive SCIAC championship, coming back from a doubles sweep against Redlands (the 4th time that’s happened this season) to win the championship match. Why They’ll Win: Their prodigious singles skills will carry them to victory. Against top 30…
The Emory Region happens to be hosted in Emory this year, after a bit of speculation that it might be held at Washington and Lee. Emory lucked out by Thomas More winning their conference and got the benefit of that by being able to host. They deserve it. Either way, the Emory region has long…
Another few hours, another regional preview. The Blog is absolutely rolling over the past couple days, and we’re well over double digit pieces of content in a 36 hour period. Now we get to what most of the writers believe is the most intriguing regional out there, the Wesleyan regional. The Cards are making their first…
Welcome back for the next and final central region preview. Before I dive into the teams, a couple of quick notes. First, although this post is titled “Chicago Region,” the region is being hosted by Gustavus Adolphus, but Chicago is the #1 seed. Next, the top 4 seeds have played in the same region the past…
