2018 Bracketology #1!

AS: If there is a rite of passage to become the owner of this Blog, it is to do a bracketology from start to finish. Last year, I took over bracketology for the first time ever, as the Guru has become a monk in his old age and now lives in the distant precipices of…

Power Rankings, 3/19

Power Rankings did not come out last week. This is my fault. I am making it up to you guys today, as we will have our Power Rankings early in the week. We will also have Power Rankings later in the week, so you can refresh after some more matches. What a time to be…

Players of the Week: 03/12-03/18

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 03/12-03/18 A-SOUTH Player: Chaz Downing Team: Carnegie Mellon Results: 3-0 in Singles, 1-2 in Doubles vs. Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan Recap: With CMU having a pretty solid week last week, they can attribute that to the singles play of Chaz Downing, who went undefeated at #2 singles and notched a big…

Power Rankings, 3/5

I will admit that this was supposed to go out last week, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be posting our Power Rankings early this week in order to soothe your concerns. Note that this should be taking into account most of the action that happened this past weekend, but given the timing there…

2018 Indoors Recap: Draftkings

Happy Thursday, boys and girls. The Blog has been on GO mode for the past week due to Indoors, and we’re almost ready to get back to regular season content. Monday we had our Players of the Week and a tournament Exit Survey. Tuesday D3AS brought you his tournament recap, and I had the pleasure…

2018 Season Preview: #23 Texas-Tyler Patriots

As season preview season (see what I did there?) comes to an end, there is still some unfinished business that needs to be taken care of. Let’s not forget about the Texas-Tyler Patriots and what could be a wildly successful season from this Texas team. I’ll go more into depth on why I used the…

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…

2017 Small College Nationals/ITA Oracle Cup: Singles Preview

Happy Thursday, boys and girls. Today is one of the most fun days of the fall, as the main draw of Small College begins this morning. The DIII men’s singles portion is scheduled to start at 11 a.m., while the doubles is slated for 3 p.m. Even though we already gave you our predictions, The…

2017 Small College Nationals/ITA Oracle Cup PREDICTIONS

Prediction time, boys and girls! This tournament is probably the hardest thing to predict of the entire year, so feel free to point and laugh when it’s all said and done. The most popular singles pick was Mr 10K, Jonathan Jemison, with six picks, but we also have three votes for Daniel Levine. On the…

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.…