2017 NCAA QUARTERFINALS BY THE NUMBERS Happy NCAA-off week, boys and girls. While the Blog has been very busy with it’s traditional NCAA coverage, we thought we would mix it up a couple of times this week as well. Don’t worry, you will be getting all the standard match-by-match previews, but first I wanted to…
While the main event (Elite 8) is upon us, let us not forget that there were 16 teams prior to that battling it out for a chance to be there. Before that, 32, and before that, 43. All of these teams stories are important to what makes DIII, and while the Blog views some of…
REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 05/08-05/14 I know we usually end POTW after the regular season, but a wonderful weekend of NCAA Regionals deserves another installment! Fantastic tennis, some big upsets, and not a single person with the perfect quarterfinals in our bracket challenge. Check back through the week as The Blog will be continuing…
CMS Odds of making QF: 84% Power 6 Rating: 77.22 How They Got Here: Winning their 12th consecutive SCIAC championship, coming back from a doubles sweep against Redlands (the 4th time that’s happened this season) to win the championship match. Why They’ll Win: Their prodigious singles skills will carry them to victory. Against top 30…
NCAA BRACKET RAPID REACTION ROUNDTABLE Nothing like a little rapid reaction roundtable from the bloggers to continue our NCAA week. If you missed the Live Blog earlier today, you missed something special. While we encourage you to go through the text from what basically turned into a public/slower version of our group chat, we also…
The final regular-season ball has been struck, the results are in, and the selection committee is doubtlessly hard at work trying to come up with a fair bracket. I’m not sure if this recommendation is coming too late, but I would like to remind coaches to put in bids to host, even if they’re not…
I’ve spent most of my morning listening to the podcast with AVZ and Coach Browning of Emory, which is why these Power Rankings are going out a little bit late. If you would like to listen to the podcast, which you should, feel free to click the link below. Power Rankings aren’t going anywhere. http://www.division3tennis.com/van-zees-vault-podcast-emorys-john-browning/…
It’s the final week of the pre-NCAA’s season, and that means it’s the SCIAC championships. The conference isn’t quite as strong as it once was, but with three teams in the top 15, it’s still clearly the third strongest conference in the country. Here’s a preview: Quarterfinals (1) CMS def. (8) Occidental 5-0 – The Stags…
REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: 04/24-04/30 Happy Monday, boys and girls. Just one week left until Selection Monday and the debate over the final Pool-C spot rages on. I was recently thinking about just how much time each of the writers still devote to DIII tennis (let’s be honest, at this point we’re no longer…
Another edition of Power Rankings are here, and this week we FINALLY had some movement in the Top 10! With a ton of upsets (check the ticker bruh!) this past week as well as the UAA Tournament completing, the top 10 got shuffled around a bit. We had a huge upset that we were able…
