Welcome, boys and girls, to the second installment of our Bracket Challenge Winner Interviews. Today you’re in for a real treat, as our winner has asked for (and has been graciously granted) a favor. Your champion, Jonny Baker, being the consummate teammate that he is, made a special request to bring one of his teammates…
Interview with Matt DeMichiel, 2015 NCAA Bracket Challenge Champion Just because the season has finally come to a close does not mean that The Blog stops. Well, we will stop for a little. More of a small summer break, a hiatus if you will, but that’s neither here nor there. As we wrap up our blogging season, I…
Hello fans, it’s been a little quiet on the women’s side but the NCAA Championships were an exciting time so I want to get an article out to you with some analysis of the Team Tournament (Elite 8) as well as the Individual Singles Tournament. I’m going to be using the UTR (Universal Tennis Rating)…
Tennis fans, it’s been a great season. A West region team won the national championship for the first time since 2009, when a senior-laden Hansen-led team got hot on the doubles court and swept their way to a national championship. This Middlebury team looked to do the same after sweeping the Tigers, but the Stags were…
A couple of years ago when Williams won their championship, they won with 4-5 seniors in the starting lineup and had been through a long journey, if you must, to get that one championship in 2013. They had previously been a strong team, but not one that was expected to win every year. We at…
CMS! What a match from the Stags, and congrats to them on the national title! Individuals start up tomorrow, and have no fear fans, because the blog has you covered. I’ve been doing a lot of NCAA writing lately, which has been great, but is bittersweet because I’ve really missed my regional squads. Because of…
Here is the link for our NCAA Doubles Bracket Challenge!!!!! 2015 NCAA DOUBLES Same rules apply. You’ll have to pick round by round (follow the instructions below). Points double each round. The winner gets to do a little something special with us…good luck! There will be brackets for the individual tournaments as well, but they won’t be…
Here is the link for our NCAA Singles Bracket Challenge!!!!! 2015 NCAA SINGLES Same rules apply. You’ll have to pick round by round (follow the instructions below). Points double each round. The winner gets to do a little something special with us…good luck! There will be brackets for the individual tournaments as well, but they won’t…
Well the team tournament wraps up today in what I hope is at least a good match. While it seems the entire blog is pulling for CMS to finally pull out the big one, I at least would like to see some drama and I think we will get a little. I wanted to direct…
*MOVED FROM COMMENTS SECTION OF ANOTHER POST* A commenter requested a history of Settles vs. Hansen, and when you ask for content, The Blog always delivers. Settles vs. Hansen dating back to 2004, the beginning of Settles tenure: 2004 Reg. Season @ CMS: CMS d. Cruz 4-3 NCAA Sweet 16 @ CMS: Cruz d. CMS…