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…

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 BRACKET CHALLENGE!

The 2019 NCAA bracket has been released, and about the only good thing I can say about it is that means it’s time for our annual bracket challenge! This will be our 6th year doing a bracket for the team tournament, and yes we will be doing an individuals bracket as well. Follow the steps…

Competitiveness Series Part 4: Coaches Perspectives

So far in our competitiveness series we’ve taken a look at the rankings over the past 20 years, had a blogger roundtable, and made some sweet tables in an attempt to quantify the level of competitiveness this year versus previous years. This week we turn the microphone over to the coaches, who have a front…

2019 Power Rankings, 4/23

D3NE: For the second consecutive week, D3AS has somebody else doing his dirty work and posting the Power Rankings. I guess when your the Blog’s Headmaster you think it’s ok to delegate a few things. He’s on some business trip to California that seems more important than the Blog. Don’t worry, he’s back to writing…

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.

West Region WrapUp: A WALL OF TEXT

All the cool kids are doing it (even men’s ASouth) so it’s about time I wrote a “state of the west region” article. Teams are done with their non-conference schedule and gearing up for conference tournaments, and I’m on a plane with time to kill so y’all get a long one. Really I just wanted…

2019 Power Rankings, 4/5

I’m late on Power Rankings and Pool C. Here are your rankings. I’ve added the SLAM Tennis rankings to our overall spreadsheet if you’re interested in how robots are taking over the world. If not, just look at the logos, that’s cool too.

2019 Power Rankings, 3/29

Hi all. West Women’s beat me to a Pool C article and that is quite embarrassing. Here are Power Rankings, though! Note that today’s and yesterday’s results are not included in the rankings as these were done Wednesday evening.

2019 Power Rankings, 3/19

Hi I am back from vacation. I hope you enjoyed my Ariana Grande article because she is blowing up on Twitter omg. Here are the week’s Power Rankings that you have been clamoring for, and that many people have been talking about. Many people have said that these are the best Power Rankings that have…