Players of the Week: 03/12-03/18

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/12-03/18 A-SOUTH Player: Chaz Downing Team: Carnegie Mellon Results: 3-0 in Singles, 1-2 in Doubles vs. Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan Recap: With CMU having a pretty solid week last week, they can attribute that to the singles play of Chaz Downing, who went undefeated at #2 singles and notched a big…

Central Weekend Preview

Welcome to another central weekend preview this time featuring help from (the people)! This weekend Chicago, Denison, and Kalamazoo are idle – do I cover Denison now that they’ve beaten Kalamazoo, is this how this works? Anyway, most of the teams in the region are coming up on spring break, and as a result we…

Power Rankings, 3/5

I will admit that this was supposed to go out last week, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be posting our Power Rankings early this week in order to soothe your concerns. Note that this should be taking into account most of the action that happened this past weekend, but given the timing there…

What’s Happening in your NEC(k) of the Woods, Edition 1

Happy Valentines Day! What better way to spend tonight than writing about D3Tennis? (Don’t answer that.)  I’m here to take a quick look back at what happened last weekend and also point out some things to watch for this weekend, as the D3 season really starts to get rolling.   Last weekend’s results Case Western…

Rapid Reaction: Central and Atlantic South Opening Weekend Recap

We had originally planned for this article to be a preview article of the past weekend, but we realized that we don’t really know that much about most teams until we see them in action for the first time. This meant we switched this article to a recap, where we now have a good amount…

2018 Season Preview: #25 Kenyon College

tl;dr: Kenyon will be led by a rotating triumvirate of Paolucci, Zalenski, and Diehl who have set their eyes past an NCAC Championship towards a deep NCAA run. Denison and Oberlin are nipping at their heels, but the eleven time defending champions are the Lords of NCAC Land until otherwise noted.   Let’s all take…

Central Region Top Dogs: Fall Review

Wowza, sorry for the tardiness on this y’all – a combination of responsibilities and those ridiculously talented kids on Stranger Things really set me back. Woo…the sprint of Fall Tennis has finally passed and now it’s time to look back and see how the top central teams have fared. No tournament or moment encapsulates the…

Small College Nationals: 10 fun/meaningless stats

Happy Wednesday, boys and girls, and welcome to the first of The Blog’s Small College Nationals (now called the ITA Oracle Cup) preview articles! We are hoping to have a prediction article out for you tonight, a roundtable article for you tomorrow morning, and perhaps even more if my fellow bloggers get their acts together.…

Power Rankings, 10/5

Welcome back to a blog favorite, Power Rankings! Now that ITAs are over, the writers have again come together to shoot the sh*t on a google document and rank the top 42 teams from Division III Tennis. We have information now from ITAs and can form initial power rankings based on the individual performances that…