2019 Power Rankings, 3/4 Edition

Hi all! I was late with Power Rankings last week because the blogger team slacked off. I am not to blame at all and no blame should be placed on me. For comments and concerns, please direct them to my lawyer, D3RegionalNEC. All other concerns, please direct to my “fixer” D3RegionalASouth. Here are your Power…

2019 Early Season Hot Takes: Subway is just fine

D3NE’s HOT TAKE: Subway is a perfectly good food option when traveling with the team D3NE DEFENSE: I’m not calling it elite, I’m not out of my mind people, but I’ve been hearing for years that Subway is a terrible place to eat when traveling, when in reality it’s basically the same as Quiznos, Potbelly,…

This Weekend in the Central: March 1-3, 2019

  RE: This Weekend in the CENTRAL REGION: March 1-3, 2019   #1 U Chicago: idle #8 Wash U: idle #12 GAC: March 2: vs. St. Olaf & Hamline #13 Kenyon idle #14 Case Western: idle #24 Kalamazoo: March 3: vs. #25 Denison #25 Denison: March 2: vs. Hope, March 3 vs. #24 Kalamazoo #35…

2019 Women’s Indoor Preview: #1 CMS vs. #13 Wash U, #9 MIT vs. #10 UChicago

Indoor starts in less than 24 hours, but your Blog MVPs are coming in hot with the second batch of previews. ASW covered a lot of key points in her preview yesterday (make sure you check it out), so I’ll keep it brief. Indoors is sure to bring some great tennis, and I’m ready to…

2019 Early Season Hot Takes: Indoors should be played at a neutral site

DIIIWest’s HOT TAKE: It’s unfair that at such a prestigious national tournament like the National ITA Indoors, Case Western repeatedly gets home court advantage. DIIIWest DEFENSE: Granted, it might be the nicest indoor facility DIII can take advantage of AND one of the few facilities that can house two seperate matches, 1-6 singles going on…

2019 Early Season Hot Takes: Chicago finna win a natty

Welcome to another round of Blogger Hot Takes, boys and girls! In the fall we ran our hot takes series where all the bloggers responded to each other’s hot takes, which included things like D3AS saying Chicago will get 3rd in the UAA and bow out in the NCAA QF or my take that Brandeis…

Studs & Duds: 2019 Indoors Recap

What a weekend of DIII Tennis. As a man named CHB mentioned in the Blog group chat, Indoors Weeks is one of our favorite weeks as it really kicks off the start of the DIII Season. And we at the Blog are happy to be the caterers of DIII Tennis information. This weekend again proved…

Players of the Week: 02/18/19-02/24/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 02/18-02/24 Happy Tuesday, boys and girls. Today we have our first Players of the Week (POTW) of 2019! This is a weekly feature we run near the beginning of each week highlighting some of the accomplishments of players in our “regions.” There will be a different theme each week, with…

Indoors Reaction Roundtable

Continuing with our Indoors coverage, we have convened an emergency meeting of the infamous Blogger round table to get a wide range of perspectives on one of the better tournaments in recent memory. Without further ado, the 2019 Indoors Reaction Roundtable! Summarize 2019 Indoors in 5 word or fewer? AS: Best Tournament Outside of NCAAs…

2019 DraftKings Recap

Happy Monday, boys and girls, and welcome to the rest of open Blog season! CHB made the great analogy in the Blog chat over the weekend that Indoors acts as something like DIII tennis’ opening day, which means that from now until the end of NCAAs we’ll be right here with you every step of…