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…

8 Singles matchups that could decide the Elite-8

It’s a tough decision. Small College Nationals. The first or second day of Indoors. The first Saturday of spring break. The Stag Hen. Conference tournament Sunday. A lot goes into the ranking of which day on the DIII tennis calendar is the best, but to me there is a clear answer. NCAA Quarterfinal Monday is…

Women’s Players of the Week NCAA Regionals Edition (5/6-5/12)

The Women’s Bloggers all came together to give you our picks for player of the week, some of our reactions to Regionals this past weekend, and some of our late night thoughts. Stay tuned for more regional recapping and NCAA coverage in the coming days. D3ASW Player: Taylor Garcia Team: Washington and Lee Results: 1-0…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Roundtable

Less than one week until the NCAA Quarterfinals and the Face of the Blog WILL BE MAKING A VERY SPECIAL APPEARANCE! So if you know what’s good for you, bring AVZ some team swag and he’ll be sure to rep your squad while he’s golfing/curling/actually that’s all he does with his time. If you missed…

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Amherst Region

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Amherst Region We’re now deep (DEEP!) into our NCAA Regional Previews, and the first matches are actually underway. Luckily, most of the Regionals don’t start until Friday so we still have a bit of time to finish up these previews. This is a bit of a hodgepodge of a region, with…

2019 Women’s NCAA MEGA Northeast Preview

The best time of the year is here! And no, it’s not Christmas! The bracket is out, and we have some thoughts, and for the first time ever, the Blog is doing a bracket challenge for the women’s side (!!!), but I’m here, along with some help from Analyst and ASW, to do a quick…

Roundtable Reaction to the 2019 NCAA Bracket

Give us your reaction to the bracket in 5 words or fewer? AS: My dog could’ve done better. NE: Could be the worst ever? DIIIWest: Why aren’t the best in? RegNE/C: I legitimately don’t understand it. RegAS: Coach Marty isn’t big time. NewReg: Unsurprisingly disappointing What bothers you most about the bracket? AS: I know…

2019 BRACKET CHALLENGE!

The 2019 NCAA bracket has been released, and about the only good thing I can say about it is that means it’s time for our annual bracket challenge! This will be our 6th year doing a bracket for the team tournament, and yes we will be doing an individuals bracket as well. Follow the steps…