Competitiveness Series Part 4: Coaches Perspectives

So far in our competitiveness series we’ve taken a look at the rankings over the past 20 years, had a blogger roundtable, and made some sweet tables in an attempt to quantify the level of competitiveness this year versus previous years. This week we turn the microphone over to the coaches, who have a front…

NESCAC FINALS (quick) PREVIEW!

NESCAC FINALS (quick) PREVIEW It’s late and I’ve watched five overtimes of NBA playoffs in the past 24 hours, not to mention losing my life savings on a disqualification in a horse race…so no long and well-crafted intro tonight. Tomorrow morning there is a tennis match. It should be a good tennis match between two…

NESCAC Women’s Semi-Final Preview

Good morning, ladies and gents! The 17 people who voted on my poll (shoutout to my fans!) decided my fate, and here I am up early on a Saturday morning finishing my semi-final preview! #dedication Anyways, I’m very excited for these two matches, and I’m hoping that we get these played outdoors. So far, all…

NESCAC Semifinal Preview: NOW WHAT?

Bowdoin and Middlebury withstood haymakers from Williams and Tufts respectively today, and in doing so should have clinched their spot into NCAAs. Now the only questions that remains are whether that entry will be through Pool-A or Pool-C, and what overall seed will the four NESCAC teams earn? Even with the wins today, something tells…

Women’s 2019 NESCAC Preview

After all the drama at UAAs last week, it got me SO excited for NESCACs, so here’s to hoping the NESCAC can provide as many thrilling matches as the UAA! The women’s side of the Blog has been putting out awesome coverage in the last couple of weeks, so I really feel the need to…

2019 NESCAC QF Preview

NESCAC QF PREVIEW We made it, boys and girls! We survived the grind of #UAAWeek which means it’s time for NESCACs! The men play first this year up at Middlebury, and therefore have the morning slots on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the QFs, SFs and Finals respectively. We have Pool-C implications galore, individual ranking…

Pool C Update #5 – SPOILER ALERT

ASouth, ASouth, ASouth. You’re telling me that you’re going to waste your time posting another Pool C article when there are other things going on? You’re going to take away from the amazingness that is #DogsofD3?! Yes, my readers, I am. I am the new jaded curmudgeon of this Blog now that AVZ has taken…

Bracketology Edition #2 – IMPT PLZ READ

I am admittedly slacking on Bracketology this year, but luckily I am not slacking as bad as the GoT writers, because the blog would be shut down at that point. Given that we had a lot of Pool C clarity this past weekend, but still don’t have FULL CLARITY, now seems like just the right…

Players of the Week: April 22nd – April 28th

REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 04/22-04/28 Deep breaths people! Another crazy weekend of tennis that took years off the bloggers’ lives and we’re back with another set of players of the week. As we always do this time of year, we’ve been ramping up our coverage recently, and you can check back soon for the…

Pool C Update #4 – Endgame

I’ve been called upon once again from my year long slumber to give an update on the ever-changing Pool C picture. Given that this is basically the only article I have continued to deliver on my promises, I guess I should keep up my stellar record in one thing I do. ASouth is back from…