Narrative Mythology 101

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Narrative Mythology 101 As we’ve said over and over again on The Blog over the past few weeks, this year’s championship race is wide open, perhaps more so than any NCAAs in recent memory. As expected, we have all eight of the top seeds still remaining, which has the potential to make…

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…

Women’s NCAA Stream of Consciousness

Here on the women’s side of the blog we have a lot of feelings about NCAAs, and so we decided to get together and throw them onto a page for y’all. The guys side calls this a “stream of consciousness” article, but I’m hoping we have a little more structure than those. Either way, you’ll…

8 Singles matchups that could decide the Elite-8

It’s a tough decision. Small College Nationals. The first or second day of Indoors. The first Saturday of spring break. The Stag Hen. Conference tournament Sunday. A lot goes into the ranking of which day on the DIII tennis calendar is the best, but to me there is a clear answer. NCAA Quarterfinal Monday is…

Women’s Players of the Week NCAA Regionals Edition (5/6-5/12)

The Women’s Bloggers all came together to give you our picks for player of the week, some of our reactions to Regionals this past weekend, and some of our late night thoughts. Stay tuned for more regional recapping and NCAA coverage in the coming days. D3ASW Player: Taylor Garcia Team: Washington and Lee Results: 1-0…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Roundtable

Less than one week until the NCAA Quarterfinals and the Face of the Blog WILL BE MAKING A VERY SPECIAL APPEARANCE! So if you know what’s good for you, bring AVZ some team swag and he’ll be sure to rep your squad while he’s golfing/curling/actually that’s all he does with his time. If you missed…

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06/19-05/12/19

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/06-05/12 And just like that we’re down to eight NCAA Quarterfinalists! Before we move onto our 2nd week of NCAA coverage, we must look back and honor the players of the week and another group without whom none of them would be possible! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms…

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 NCAA Regional Preview: Emory Region

EMORY NCAA Rank/Blog Power Rank/Slam Tennis Rank: #2/#2/#2 Power 6: 72 How they got here: Emory won the UAA Tournament which is essentially a rite of passage for them at this point. Despite having a rough go of it at Indoors in the beginning of the year, this Eagles team didn’t lose a match from…