Men’s Players of the Week: 2/22-2/28

NCAA MEN’S REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: February 22nd-February 28th Happy Leap Day, boys and girls. Oscar week brings us a best picture edition of POTW. It’s really just a bummer that nobody’s name was Max. A couple of our writers had to dig into old results due to a post-Indoors down week, but there should…

2016 Power Rankings 2/24

The first big tournament has completed, so you know what that means! With a ton of action happening this weekend, we just had to bring the weekly power rankings back this week.  This is one of our best articles in terms of interaction as it brings a lot of debate about what the bloggers are…

Who You Should Be Rooting For At Indoors

WHO YOU SHOULD BE ROOTING FOR AT INDOORS Happy Wednesday, boys and girls. Enjoying #IndoorsWeek? We certainly are. This tournament is going to be fantastic. But what about the people who aren’t rabid fans of Wash U, Pomona-Pitzer, Emory, Chicago, Trinity Tx, Kenyon, CMU, or Case Western? I know how you feel. Sometimes I get…

Early Season Regional Roundup

Regional fans, greetings!  I’m finally done with my season previews about two weeks late, but I was done a day before D3NE, so I wasn’t last!!!  The end of season previews naturally means it is the beginning of the season, which means the return of D3AS’ favorite articles, Regional Roundup.  Basically, I cover a lot…

The Guru’s Top 20 Teams of the Past Five Years

As the blog historian, I wanted to come in with my version of a season kickoff article. This will review the top 20 teams of the past five years as determined by average finish between the 2011 and 2015 seasons. There is one exception to this which I will explain below. I will also take…

2016 Women’s Season Preview: #18 Redlands Bulldogs

Redlands Lady Bulldogs Fall 2014 Ranking: #19 Spring 2015 Ranking: #18 Fall 2015 Ranking: #18 Player Ranking (National/Regional): Natalie Etchegaray: #35/#9 Catherine Allen: NR/#14 Etchegaray/Allen: #25/#7 Hello Hello! It’s my turn for another preview of the upcoming tennis season. I have to say that writing these previews really fuels me up for the season ahead,…

2016 Season Preview: #15 Redlands

Coach: Geoff Roche, 18th season Location: Redlands, CA Preseason Ranking: 15 Power Ranking: 20 Twitter Handle: @UofRMTennis for all of your sporadic coverage needs Intro: As much as I’ve beaten the whole Lipscomb/Cummins thing to death over the past couple years, Redlands tennis has pretty much been defined by those two players for the past four…

Freshmen to Watch via TennisRecruiting.net

Hello again, boys and girls! On the heels of a very successful Fantasy Draft (rules can be found here), some writers here at The Blog have written an article with TennisRecruiting.net in order to bring you our “2016 Frosh to Watch.” As you will see if you follow the link below, D3NEWomens, D3WestWomens, and I (D3NE) have collected at least three…

The 2016 Fantasy Draft – Full Draft Results

Well, well, well.  The team and 3 others got together for the Fantasy Draft I was telling you about earlier, and we absolutely killed it.  It’s tough to get 10 working dudes in the same google doc at the same time to draft Division III Tennis players for hypothetical teams, but we did it.  I…

ITA West Women’s Regional Recap – Part TWO!!!

Now Part 2!! I decided to split this up simply because of how I wrote the first part of this article, as well as the timing of the events being so spread out. Congrats to our champs: Joy Kim (Pomona) and Caroline Ward/Katie Kuosman (CMS)   HOW IT HAPPENED:     Well…….Pomona……..kind of took over….…