2019 Early Season Hot Takes: UAA > NESCAC

D3AS’ HOT TAKE: The UAA is the best conference this year, that ever was, and ever will be. D3AS DEFENSE: Sure, it’s early, but the UAA now has 6 top 15 teams (on the Men’s side) and we’re in early March. It has long been assumed that the NESCAC is the better conference, but I…

POTW: 02/25/19-03/03/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 02/25/19-03/03/19 What could be better than Power Rankings on a Monday? Power Rankings and POTW on a Monday! Well, Monday on the West Coast at least. There has been much discussion about food in the blogger group chat of late, so today we’ve included our bloggers’ favorite tennis trip eatery…

2019 Power Rankings, 3/4 Edition

Hi all! I was late with Power Rankings last week because the blogger team slacked off. I am not to blame at all and no blame should be placed on me. For comments and concerns, please direct them to my lawyer, D3RegionalNEC. All other concerns, please direct to my “fixer” D3RegionalASouth. Here are your Power…

2019 Season Preview: #24 Bates Bobcats

Happy Thursday, boys and girls, and welcome to what has become an annual February Blog tradition. It’s not as exciting as INDOORS DRAFTKINGS, which is coming again later this month, but the Bates Bobcats will be starting their season in the next couple weeks which means it’s time for me to droll on about why…

2019 Power Rankings, Fall Edition

Lo and behold, I have finally come through and posted the Power Rankings. These rankings will now cue the ITA Rankings to be posted any day now, because they are probably waiting for us to post so they have an idea of where to put people. And also not rank MIT, which is the best…

2018 Wallach Invitational Recap

Happy Wednesday, boys and girls. We’re rapidly approaching the end of the fall season, but before we hit the firework encore this weekend with the ITA Cup and the Tufts/Brandeis Invite, we’re here to look back on the weekend that was. Bates hosted the annual Wallach Tournament, and the field was as solid as always,…

18 Takeaways: Thoughts from the ’18 New England ITA

Happy Thursday, boys and girls. It’s time for my ITA recap, and you all know what that means, buckle up for some long-winded rambling and strong blurbing! As always, it’s fall tennis so you have to take everything with a grain of salt, but this is the best of the best when it comes to…

Countdown to the 2018 New England ITA

Hello again, boys and girls. We’re smack in the middle of ITAs right now, with Emory and George Fox already dominating their respective regionals last weekend and a slew of tournaments beginning in the next few days. As I do every fall, I’m here to give you my ramblings on the best regional tournament in…

2018 “End” of Year Awards

WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME, boys and girls! Before we can really move onto the 2018-2019 season it is only fair that we recognize the best of what was. Yes, we usually do the Blog Awards at the end of the spring season, but we busy, lazy, and ready for summer vacation. Oh…and some people didn’t bother…

2018 Middlebury Invitational Recap

2018 MIDDLEBURY INVITATIONAL RECAP Hello again, boys and girls, and welcome to another year of The Blog! AVZ (the face of the Blog) kicked us off with a podcast featuring our headmaster, and D3RegNEC(k) posted his 5 burning questions yesterday. Today, I’m joined by the aforementioned RegNEC(k) and, making his bloggorial debut, please welcome NewRegional!…