Central State of the Region

The Central region is in a pretty big lull the last few weeks which means I was able to sort of disappear as a blogger and somehow manage to pick a player from Bethel as my POTW. Sadly Greek continuously reminds me that he is there to take my job when I pass away and…

3/23 Power Rankings

Another day in the books, ladies and gentlemen. What a great day at the office. If you haven’t heard, there was an incredible match today between Williams and Pomona Pitzer that had massive implications for who is going to make the tournament later on this year.  If you weren’t following, Williams took the 5-4 win…

2016 Pool C Update #1 – WTF

It’s been a long time, folks. I’ve been on a bit of a break with a ton of different things on my mind, but I have been staying hyper-aware of what is going on in the DIII landscape. In fact, we’ve got a Tennis Recruiting article that is being published during Signing Week, which will…

2016 Power Rankings 3/16

With the ITA Rankings coming out today, we decided to hold Power Rankings until after, so we could compare what we really thought about those ITA Rankings.  Kidding, I just didn’t get around to this yesterday when I was making my NCAA Bracket (Go Kansas!) and decided to wait until now to post, as I…

Men’s Regional POTW: 3/7-3/13

It’s bracket time again people. This week’s POTW is March Madness themed with Wooden Award Candidate nicknames given to some of our sport’s very best. This week featured a heck of a lot of excellent tennis, from Stag-Hen to teams on spring break, and even a couple of season debuts. Congrats to this week’s winners,…

Stag-Hen Round 2 Preview: In Brief

The rain delay and my timely getting off of work has allowed me to do a quick preview of Stag-Hen round two. I’m playing tennis myself soon and have to leave in 15 minutes, so let’s see how many words I can fire off. My guess is about 500. I’m hoping they will be getting…

Stag-Hen X-Factors

STAG HEN: X-Factors Happy Friday, boys and girls. The Stag Hen is the 2nd big tournament of the year without any NE teams, but I wasn’t going to let the other writers have all the fun. They think they’re so cool with their fancy tournaments and their match-by-match previews. Who needs them? I decided that…

Stag-Hen Match by Match 1st Round Preview

This is going to be a long post as we’re going Match by Match for the Stag-Hen, so buckle up.  Play begins tomorrow at check the CMS website time.  I believe it’s at 12 noon Eastern Time though. Heh. Let’s get to it. #1 CMS vs. #8 UT-Tyler D3West: This is obviously my match to…

The Stag-Hen Master Predictions

As some of you may or may not know, a huge tournament otherwise known as the Stag-Hen is going to start tomorrow.  This tournament features the two main teams from California, CMS and Pomona, hosting a ton of great teams on their home courts.  This tournament always seems to have a different feel than Indoors,…

2016 Power Rankings 3/9

We are back with another set of Power Rankings! Now, not much happened this past week in terms of matches, as we saw a lot of chalk performances such as Bates def. MIT, UWW over GAC, and Pomona over UMW.  However, Redlands did pull the upset over the UMW Eagles and they are now benefiting…