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…

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…

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…

2019 Power Rankings, 4/23

D3NE: For the second consecutive week, D3AS has somebody else doing his dirty work and posting the Power Rankings. I guess when your the Blog’s Headmaster you think it’s ok to delegate a few things. He’s on some business trip to California that seems more important than the Blog. Don’t worry, he’s back to writing…