2/24 Men’s Power Rankings

One thing that Indoor Nationals brings that you probably forgot is the return of our weekly power rankings.  The five bloggers have come together to once again take all the latest results and give you some rankings that are probably more reliable than the ITA rankings (#sorrynotsorry).  We have a lot of big changes due…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #38 Whittier Poets

WHITTIER Location: Whittier, CA Coach: Ben Belletto (2nd year) Final 2013 rank: NR Final 2012 rank: NR Finished Fall #10 in West Entered Spring #12 in West Finished Spring #7 in West Current Rank: #38 Nationally & #7 in West Meagan Zamilpa – #8 in West Meagan Zamilpa/Gabi Etchegaray – #13 in West   Key…

Bates Upsets Pomona/Bates vs. Whittier

As the title suggests, #23 (#28 ITA) Bates pulled off the upset of the young DIII season by knocking off #9 (#11 ITA) Pomona 5-4. As this is a fresh reaction, there is no published box score yet. Let’s go piece by piece through the night. Props to both @BatesTennis and @SagehenTennis on their updates…

2015 Women’s Season Preview: #19 Redlands Bulldogs

    UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: Location: Redlands, CA   Coach: Geoff Roche (16th year)   Final 2012 rank: #24   Final 2013 rank: #11   Started Spring 2014: #13 in Nation & #3 in West   Finished Spring 2014: #18 in Nation & #4 in West   Finished Fall 2014 : #19 in Nation &…

2015 Season Preview: #19 Whittier Poets

Whittier College Location: Whittier, CA Coach: Ben Belletto Preseason Ranking: 19   Intro: Since I refuse to let the older D3West show me up with his Cal Lu preview, I will bequeath upon the dedicated DIII Tennis readers another introspective and thoughtful provoking article by a most talented young writer. This time we have the…

Women’s ITA West Regional Review!!

Hey, hey tennis fans. I‘m back with the ITA West Regional Review!! Sorry about the delay in between posts, unfortunately, I had a prior commitment which took me away from my computer but now y’all have my full attention!! The West Regional event brought out some awesome tennis and great battles. I would like to…

West Region ITA Recap

First of all, I have never been so wrong and so right in a single weekend…. Obviously no one could have predicted the winners of the tournament, and to be honest I am still not quite sure how it ended up that way, but such is the Fall Regional. I guess it’s past time for…

2015 Season Opening Power Rankings!

Wassuppppp wassup wassup. After an exciting weekend of ITAs where it looks like a lot of our viewers came back for some classic blog action, we decided to keep the ball rolling with our Weekly Power Rankings.  Now, they won’t be weekly here in the fall season because the blog here is all about efficiency,…

ITA West Regional Preview

Hello beloved D3 tennis fans! It is my pleasure to bring you the exclusive CMS Region, excuse me, I mean West Region ITA preview. I am “the new guy” that the D3West so lovingly referred to in his Burning Questions article, and I will give my very professional predictions for the toughest ITA in the…

Men’s West Region: 5 Burning Questions

Well, it looks like the blog is up and running for the year, and since I can’t get in touch with the new guy, I’m just gonna go ahead and do the 5 burning questions for the West region. I know you all missed my snark ever-so much, so I’ll try to give you all the…