Women’s 2019 QF Preview: Middlebury vs. Amherst

Hey guys and gals! I’ve gathered you all here today to celebrate my one year anniversary as a Blogger! 365 days ago (actually a bit longer, I started before Regionals), I hopped onto the scene as “Unnamed / Nameless” – your fav new Women’s blogger. And in the year since then, I’ve earned the title…

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…

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…

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…

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06/19-05/12/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06-05/12 And just like that we’re down to eight NCAA Quarterfinalists! Before we move onto our 2nd week of NCAA coverage, we must look back and honor the players of the week and another group without whom none of them would be possible! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms…

BLIND RESUME TEST: 2019 NCAA Individuals Singles At-Large Selecitons

You might have missed it amongst all the NCAA coverage this week, but the NCAA released its selections for the Individual Singles and Doubles Tournaments held in the days after the completion of the team tournament. There were more than a couple outbursts about the players selected (or not selected as the case may be)…

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 NCAA Regional Preview: Middlebury Region

2019 NCAA Regional Preview: Middlebury Region Welcome to our first Regional Preview as The Blog is back up and running after some very serious technical issues on Sunday and Monday. Big shout out to the Regional Roundup OG, D3Regional, who spent hours dealing with support and trying to fix the site you all know and…