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…

Central Individuals Outlook + newCentral’s Frankenstein D3 Singles Player

And then there were two…with Chicago losing in the Final Four, the Central Region (and I) are officially out of the team postseason; however, the Central lives on in this 2018-19 season with ten Individuals singles representatives: Vithoontien, Chen, Kerrigan, Yuan, Whaling, Yi, Zalesnki, Diehl, Hillis, and Neves. The draws have not been posted at…

FINAL FOUR: #1 CMS vs. #4 Chicago

  No. 1 CMS vs No. 4 Chicago **WALL OF TEXT ALERT** And we have finally arrived at the final 4! The best team from out West and the overall #1 seed, the CMS Stags, will take on the always dangerous and very talented UAA topdogs, Chicago. This one is set to be a barnburner…

NCAA QF Men’s Master Predictions!

The Blog Team came together to predict the results for the NCAA Tournament. It’s happening now. Endgame confirmed. For those of you wondering about Dogs of D3, we will continue the FINALS for that competition after the conclusion of Team Nationals. Thanks to all who have visited this site in this past year!

2019 NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: Amherst vs Chicago

No. 4 Chicago vs No. 5 Amherst Welcome to our final QF preview on the men’s side, and we’ve saved the tightest match for last. It’s no coincidence that The Blog’s Barn Insurance Specialist is with me today for this preview as Amherst and Chicago should provide quite the crackling fire in Kalamazoo on Monday…

Women’s 2019 QF Preview: Emory vs. Chicago

This is it, the last of our quarterfinal previews before the action starts in Kalamazoo bright and early Monday morning. This match will get going at 8:30 am, which is way too early for me to be awake, but WestW will give me the play by play to read when I wake up. For anyone…

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…