2017 Indoors Daily Fantasy

It’s. Time.  Time for the best tournament of the season, the one that they call Indoor Nationals.  It’s #IndoorsWeek everyone and that means I come back from my hiatus to become the leader of this blog once again. Daily Fantasy was super hot for a quick second, but has somewhat died down now that half…

Central Region Early Season Thoughts

Division 3 tennis is in full swing, and it looks like the central region has played a bunch of matches. With that, I want to provide my thoughts on how the central region teams I cover have performed. As we always say, it’s a long season, so you can’t predict much from early season results, but…

2nd Annual Top 20 Teams of the Past Five Years

This is my season preview and the 2nd Annual Top 20 Teams of the Past Five Years. For those who want to reference last year’s article, the link is here: http://www.division3tennis.com/7148-2/ The rules of this are pretty simple. You need to be ranked in all five of the seasons examined and you need to have…

#35 Coe vs. #5 Chicago Preview

Alright, central region tennis fans! The weekend of first dual matches is upon us, with nationally-ranked Chicago, Kenyon, and Coe all in action. In this post, I’m specifically going to cover the Coe vs.Chicago match. While I’m excited to see the Kenyon lineup, the Lords are facing NAIA Northwestern Ohio, so there really isn’t any…

2017 Season Preview: #5 Chicago Maroons

It’s time for another preview! Luckily for Chicago (and the other teams who I preview in the next couple weeks), I am on a two-week vacation, meaning my previews will be longer and better-researched (sorry Wash U and Case). Here we go… Coach: Jay Tee, 5th Season Location: Chicago, IL Preseason ITA Ranking: 5 Blog Power Ranking: 2 Twitter Handle: @UChicagoTennis…

2017 Inaugural Power Rankings

They said we were dead. They said we couldn’t do it anymore. But here we are, giving you the inaugural power rankings of 2017. Not only that, we’re giving you a bit of new flavor this year. We have Regional AS and NEC on board, and we have a new writer in D3Midwest as well.…

ITA Oracle Cup (Small College Nationals) Picks!

Prediction time, boys and girls. Everybody’s favorite chance to point at us and laugh after our picks go horribly awry. You can see that there’s a pretty even split towards the top of the singles picks, with 4 of the 8 contestants/teams being picked to win by different writers in both the singles and the…

ITA Oracle Cup (Small College Nationals) Preview

SMALL COLLEGE NATIONALS SINGLES PREVIEW Today, there’s this thing called Small College Nationals happening at 10:30AM PT from somewhere in Arizona. Welcome to the desert, folks. Let’s hope that this is real life and not an elaborate theme park for rich people (Westworld Reference! Hit me up on twitter to discuss the newest HBO show,…

ITA Central Region Championships Recap

Here are my top 10 takeaways from the ITA Central Region Championships. The great D3Central has added some commentary as well (in bold). 1. Chicago is ridiculously good (stolen from D3Central’s recap last year). Alright, the Maroons love this tournament. For the past three years, Chicago’s won both singles and doubles. Something about this year’s…

Kalamazoo ITA Quick Reactions to the Draw

I am not sure if I even remember how to do this now that it has been so long since my last post. But I have a few extra minutes and thought I would give some quick reactions to the Kalamazoo regional ITA draw. While my focus this season is going to be national with…