NCAA Reaction Roundtable

As the blogging season comes to an end we’re assembling the blogging conclave one final time for a final POTW, roundtable, Power Rankings, and some end-of-year awards. If you missed POTW, check out AVZ going rogue at the end. Today it’s the famous (or infamous depending on your point of view) Blogger Roundtable as we…

2019 NCAA Individuals Bracket Challenge!

Another day another bracket challenge. Congrats to Marc Lowitz on his team bracket title! Let’s see if he can become the first person to defend a team title with an Individuals Singles title. Quick turn around, but below is the link to your singles and doubles bracket challenges. You have until 11 a.m. EST tomorrow…

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…

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06/19-05/12/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06-05/12 And just like that we’re down to eight NCAA Quarterfinalists! Before we move onto our 2nd week of NCAA coverage, we must look back and honor the players of the week and another group without whom none of them would be possible! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms…

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Amherst Region

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Amherst Region We’re now deep (DEEP!) into our NCAA Regional Previews, and the first matches are actually underway. Luckily, most of the Regionals don’t start until Friday so we still have a bit of time to finish up these previews. This is a bit of a hodgepodge of a region, with…

2019 Women’s NCAA MEGA Northeast Preview

The best time of the year is here! And no, it’s not Christmas! The bracket is out, and we have some thoughts, and for the first time ever, the Blog is doing a bracket challenge for the women’s side (!!!), but I’m here, along with some help from Analyst and ASW, to do a quick…

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…

2019 BRACKET CHALLENGE!

The 2019 NCAA bracket has been released, and about the only good thing I can say about it is that means it’s time for our annual bracket challenge! This will be our 6th year doing a bracket for the team tournament, and yes we will be doing an individuals bracket as well. Follow the steps…

Competitiveness Series Part 4: Coaches Perspectives

So far in our competitiveness series we’ve taken a look at the rankings over the past 20 years, had a blogger roundtable, and made some sweet tables in an attempt to quantify the level of competitiveness this year versus previous years. This week we turn the microphone over to the coaches, who have a front…

Bracketology Edition #2 – IMPT PLZ READ

I am admittedly slacking on Bracketology this year, but luckily I am not slacking as bad as the GoT writers, because the blog would be shut down at that point. Given that we had a lot of Pool C clarity this past weekend, but still don’t have FULL CLARITY, now seems like just the right…