NCAA QF Preview: Emory vs Wash U

Silly D3Northeast thought me and NewCentral would be fighting over who did this intro. This will obviously be me, because of a few things: NewCentral might not even get to this article – Spoiler: he does. I write better intros anyways Emory is going to win I am the headmaster Okay, now that that’s over,…

Narrative Mythology 101

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Narrative Mythology 101 As we’ve said over and over again on The Blog over the past few weeks, this year’s championship race is wide open, perhaps more so than any NCAAs in recent memory. As expected, we have all eight of the top seeds still remaining, which has the potential to make…

Competitiveness Series Part 5: Coaches Perspectives on Recruiting

Did you think that we’d forgotten about our Competitiveness Series amidst the excitement of NCAAs? Well, we didn’t. So far in our series The Analyst dropped her fiery first article, we had a blogger roundtable, a very factual discussion of competitiveness in recent history, and asked a whole bunch of amazing coaches for their perspectives…

Women’s NCAA Stream of Consciousness

Here on the women’s side of the blog we have a lot of feelings about NCAAs, and so we decided to get together and throw them onto a page for y’all. The guys side calls this a “stream of consciousness” article, but I’m hoping we have a little more structure than those. Either way, you’ll…

8 Singles matchups that could decide the Elite-8

It’s a tough decision. Small College Nationals. The first or second day of Indoors. The first Saturday of spring break. The Stag Hen. Conference tournament Sunday. A lot goes into the ranking of which day on the DIII tennis calendar is the best, but to me there is a clear answer. NCAA Quarterfinal Monday is…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Roundtable

Less than one week until the NCAA Quarterfinals and the Face of the Blog WILL BE MAKING A VERY SPECIAL APPEARANCE! So if you know what’s good for you, bring AVZ some team swag and he’ll be sure to rep your squad while he’s golfing/curling/actually that’s all he does with his time. If you missed…

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Emory Region

EMORY NCAA Rank/Blog Power Rank/Slam Tennis Rank: #2/#2/#2 Power 6: 72 How they got here: Emory won the UAA Tournament which is essentially a rite of passage for them at this point. Despite having a rough go of it at Indoors in the beginning of the year, this Eagles team didn’t lose a match from…

Roundtable Reaction to the 2019 NCAA Bracket

Give us your reaction to the bracket in 5 words or fewer? AS: My dog could’ve done better. NE: Could be the worst ever? DIIIWest: Why aren’t the best in? RegNE/C: I legitimately don’t understand it. RegAS: Coach Marty isn’t big time. NewReg: Unsurprisingly disappointing What bothers you most about the bracket? AS: I know…

Women’s NCAA Bracket: Blogger Not-So-Rapid Reactions

The Bracket came out yesterday and we had every intention of bringing you our rapid reactions. We really did. D3WestWomens even sent out the questions and a template beforehand so we would be ready. Buuuuut then the site went down and we tanked a little bit. I think WestWomens is so frustrated by the bracket…