2019 Individuals Preview: 1st Round matches to watch

I wasn’t going to write anything about tomorrow’s Individuals but then I saw that we have a Blog fan who (very nicely) asked us for offseason content. Well that just made my cold heart grow three sizes…so here is an off-the-cuff quick preview highlighting some matches to watch tomorrow. No research will be done while…

2019 NCAA Individuals Bracket Challenge!

Another day another bracket challenge. Congrats to Marc Lowitz on his team bracket title! Let’s see if he can become the first person to defend a team title with an Individuals Singles title. Quick turn around, but below is the link to your singles and doubles bracket challenges. You have until 11 a.m. EST tomorrow…

2019 Women’s NCAA National Championship Preview

Well boys and girls, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. National Championship day is here! We had a rollercoaster ride of a morning, and I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t hyperventilating as Almy took down Fatemi to send the Cards to the NCAA finals. Plus, we cannot overlook CMS’ resounding…

Women’s 2019 Final Four Preview: Emory vs. Wesleyan

Huge congratulations are in order to all of the teams in the semifinals, but special kudos to Wesleyan for making their first appearance in the Final Four in school history. Just another step up for the youngest of the D3 powerhouses. Tomorrow they’ll be facing quite possibly their biggest challenge yet– a pumped up Emory…

NCAA QF Men’s Master Predictions!

The Blog Team came together to predict the results for the NCAA Tournament. It’s happening now. Endgame confirmed. For those of you wondering about Dogs of D3, we will continue the FINALS for that competition after the conclusion of Team Nationals. Thanks to all who have visited this site in this past year!

Women’s 2019 QF Preview: Wesleyan vs. MIT

Hey y’all! NEW here along with my trusty sidekick, Analyst, to preview the second all-NE quarter final of this year’s tournament! Check out our first preview on the Midd/Amherst match and ASW and WestW’s trademark expertise in the CMS/CMU preview, too!! Well, after a thrilling regional, we have a *surprise* quarterfinalist team in MIT, and…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: Middlebury vs Wesleyan

No. 3 Middlebury vs No. 6 Wesleyan NE: Welcome to MY NCAA Quarterfinal. That’s right folks, as it’s two of my teams, IT BELONGS TO ME! While we have four exciting quarterfinals ahead of us, this is the one I will be following the closest. Not only has this developed into a nice little rivalry…

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…