The Blog Retirement Article

Well hello there! I don’t need to tell you that the Blog has been pretty much dormant for the past year-plus. There are more than a few reasons for that, and it’s not just Covid. Yes, the season being cancelled last year took a lot of wind out of everyone’s sails, and while there is…

Changes and Constants: A Look Back at the D3 Tennis World of the Past

I’ll admit this post is somewhat self-serving. There’s not a ton of action with the teams I cover going on, and I’m a little uninspired to write about them until some actual results happen this weekend. So for now, I thought it would be fun to take a little trip down memory lane and talk…

2019 Ojai Preview

D3RegionalNEC: Don’t mind me! Just posting this for my buddy DIIIWest. Take it away pal… DIIIWest: Here we are – what I like to call the April Madness of DIII tennis. A spectacle in college basketball, I believe The Ojai is college tennis’ equivalent out on the west coast. A beautiful and storied tournament with…

2019 Power Rankings, 4/11

Power Rankings are brought to you by the all-knowing D3RegionalNEC, not myself this week. Enjoy his take on sassy blurbs. I’m off to binge watch Game of Thrones for the third time. ASouth, OUT.

Your Extensive West Region Fall Recap

Though the fall season is a relatively quick one for the players out West, I see it as one of the most grueling weekends of the year. There aren’t many times in the spring where you’ll play up to 10 matches (singles and doubles) in one weekend, so huge props to those who played an…

Small College Nationals: 10 fun/meaningless stats

Happy Wednesday, boys and girls, and welcome to the first of The Blog’s Small College Nationals (now called the ITA Oracle Cup) preview articles! We are hoping to have a prediction article out for you tonight, a roundtable article for you tomorrow morning, and perhaps even more if my fellow bloggers get their acts together.…

Six Pack Preview of New England / West Regional Questions

Blog fam! As the summer winds down, I start to question what I’m doing with my life when I get home from work and don’t need to think about writing an article. Then, as teams start to have their first practices and I see Brad Gilbert tweeting pictures with Connecticut College during the US Open,…

POTW: 5/1-5/7

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/01-05/07 IT’S BRACKET DAY, BOYS AND GIRLS! Check out the final bracketology while you wait (patiently, I’m sure). Soon, we will be posting another LIVE BLOG to give constant updates on the bracket as we receive them! For now, sit tight and enjoy the final non-NCAA POTW of the season!…

This Week in West: The SCIACs

It’s the final week of the pre-NCAA’s season, and that means it’s the SCIAC championships. The conference isn’t quite as strong as it once was, but with three teams in the top 15, it’s still clearly the third strongest conference in the country. Here’s a preview: Quarterfinals (1) CMS def. (8) Occidental 5-0 – The Stags…

This Week In West: The Ojai!

With the regular season winding down, it’s time for the most unique event on the DIII tennis calendar: The Ojai. Here are the draws. You’ll notice that the following changes have been made: The singles draw has decreased from 64 to 32, and the doubles draw has decreased from 32 to 16. The draw is…