The Blog’s 2016 Season Awards!

Unlike last year, we are getting these awards out as promptly as possible.  In order to celebrate two things – Bowdoin’s surprising, amazing, unexpected National Championship, and the fact that we just hit 2,000,000 all-time views on the blog.  Check any other tennis site that has that many views.  Not sure if there are many.…

2016 NCAA Individuals Bracket Challenge!!!

Here are the links for our NCAA Singles and Doubles Bracket Challenges!!!!!  2016 Singles & Doubles Bracket Challenges *PLEASE NOTE THIS IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION* PLEASE DO NOT JOIN YET. Quick turn around here, boys and girls, but here are your singles and doubles bracket challenges. You have until 9am (Eastern) tomorrow to fill out your singles…

NCAA Finals Preview: #3 Middlebury vs #4 Bowdoin

NCAA FINALS PREVIEW: #4 BOWDOIN VS. #3 MIDDLEBURY Happy last 24 hours of the team season, boys and girls! Tonight I’m bringing you a preview of tomorrow’s NCAA Finals all by my lonesome, because as the Guru pointed out earlier today, we are guaranteed a fifth NESCAC national champion over the past seven years. Both…

NCAA Finals Roundtable: #4 Bowdoin vs #3 Middlebury

NCAA FINALS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION With the tomorrow’s finals being an all NE affair, I’ll have a full preview later tonight where I can ramble on and on and on. However, some of the other writers wanted to offer their thoughts on the matchup. If you have any questions you’d like answered, feel free to ask…

NCAA Semifinal Preview: #1 Emory vs #4 Bowdoin

NCAA SEMIFINAL PREVIEW: #1 Emory vs #4 Bowdoin NE: WOW! That Bowdoin comeback left me exhausted for hours, and I was almost 1,000 miles from the action in Kalamazoo! As always, The Guru summed up everything in four simple words. Match of the year — Division 3 Tennis (@d3tennis) May 23, 2016 For those of…

NCAA Semifinal Preview: #3 Middlebury vs #7 Chicago

NCAA SEMIFINAL PREVIEW: #3 Middlebury vs. #7 Chicago D3NE: On a day where Bowdoin came back from a doubles sweep, and Chicago overcame a 2-1 doubles deficit with relative ease, the 5-1 Middlebury beatdown of Wash U will probably slide under the radar. The Panthers dominated at #1 and #3 doubles, but dropped a tight…

NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: #6 Wash U vs. #3 Middlebury

NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: #6 Wash U vs #3 Middlebury D3NE: I continually underestimate Wash U. D3Central continually underestimates Wash U. Almost everybody in the world underestimates Wash U except for The Guru, Coach Follmer, and probably D3Dad. They have had one of the more remarkable in-season turnarounds in program history, and have made yet another…

NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: Johns Hopkins vs #4 Bowdoin

NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: Johns Hopkins vs #4 Bowdoin AS: I’ve started to incorporate the tank and tree formula into my life recently.  I wake up at 8:55 AM to get to work at 9AM and so far it has (not) really worked out for me. For some people, it works a bit better – I’m…

5/19 Power Rankings – NCAA Style

We’re a day late on this, mostly because my colleagues have working behind the scenes to get some Elite 8 Previews for you all and I have been working at a Regional Recap (that sounds weird) for all of those small teams out there.  Additionally, we’ve been trying to come together for our annual “Superlatives…

The Elite Eight-A Brief History Lesson for Our Quarterfinalists

The 2016 Quarterfinals–A brief history by the numbers “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -D3TennisGuy (RIP).  Today I thought we could continue our NCAA coverage with a look at each of the Elite 8’s past five years, and what (if anything) we can learn from the past. Turns out, not…