2016 Power Rankings 3/16

With the ITA Rankings coming out today, we decided to hold Power Rankings until after, so we could compare what we really thought about those ITA Rankings.  Kidding, I just didn’t get around to this yesterday when I was making my NCAA Bracket (Go Kansas!) and decided to wait until now to post, as I…

This Week In West: March 13-20

Wow, the Stag-Hen may have started off with a little bit of a fizzle, but it finished with a bang. The other writers are sure to chip in with their thoughts, but here are a few of my observations since the tournament included my three top teams and another one of my top 7: Emory…

2016 Power Rankings 3/9

We are back with another set of Power Rankings! Now, not much happened this past week in terms of matches, as we saw a lot of chalk performances such as Bates def. MIT, UWW over GAC, and Pomona over UMW.  However, Redlands did pull the upset over the UMW Eagles and they are now benefiting…

2016 Men’s Power Rankings 3/4

What a week it has been for me, as I have admittedly been MIA and not active on the blog.  Luckily, I have a team of writers who straight kill it week after week, so kudos to them.  They set up these power rankings and I actually just finished them, which I realize is 2…

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…

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 Season Preview: #30 UC Santa Cruz

Coach: Mike Napoli, 2nd season Location: Santa Cruz, CA Preseason Rank: #30 Twitter Handle: @Cruz_Tennis (pretty good) Overview: I’ve made no secret of my predilection for the Slugs. Ever since the departure of Bob Hansen, the name of the head coach has shifted as frequently as the tide off West Cliff thanks to the poor institutional support of its…

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…

Small College Nationals Recap (Men’s

Y’all didn’t luck out, because I’m in charge of the Small College Nationals recap.  That means it’s going to be late (check), it’s going to have a lot of tweets in it (will be checked), and you get my brilliant writing style, which I still consider to be the best in the business. If you’ve…