This morning it was announced that FloSports and the ITA have entered into a five-year agreement where FloSports will provide live streaming for up to 15 ITA events per year including all ITA National Championships (Men’s and Women’s All-American, Men’s and Women’s D1 and D3 National Team Indoors) in a paid subscription model.  This is going to be nice for all the events where streaming wasn’t available but it’ll be interesting to see what changes on the events where streaming was provided for free. Here is the full release from the ITA that you can read at your convenience.

I looked at the weather last weekend and originally it was showing rain and higher temperatures for this week but it looks like it has turned around. Tuesday is the only day of the team championships where the chance of rain is 50% or greater while temperatures will be pretty reasonable. The biggest thing to keep an eye on is the wind because as of this minute the forecast says 10 mph winds on Sunday and 15 mph winds on Monday and Tuesday.

I learned through a source that Michigan filed a formal lineup protest after Saturday’s second round loss to Wake Forest. The protest centered around Romain Bogaerts playing at No. 4 singles after sitting out doubles and after not playing the previous day. Bogaerts, who has a minor knee injury, was competitive in the first few games but after going down a break trailed off and retired down 6-1, 1-0. Michigan was protesting that Bogaerts shouldn’t have played which would have meant that Wake would have had to shift Christian Seraphim up from 5 to 4, Dennis Uspensky from 6 to 5, and Maksim Kan from 7 to 6.

The appeal was denied by the NCAA on Monday evening so the 4-2 result officially stands. I’m assuming that the NCAA most likely checked with Wake’s team physician and there must not have been any indication that Bogaerts was unfit to play so therefore the appeal was denied. I did reach out to Michigan head coach Adam Steinberg but he had no further comment.

I can’t think of any other instance where an appeal was granted in a situation like this because unless the medical report said someone was unfit then it’s all a matter of opinion. Wake Forest will take the court on Friday evening at 7 p.m. central against the No. 11 seed Oklahoma.

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Last week I looked at the doubles records of all the men’s teams in the NCAA Tournament and today I updated those numbers for the teams still remaining and I also added the women’s teams.

7 of the final 16 teams on the men’s side are winning the doubles point 75% of the time or better with Ohio State the best at 88.2%. Mississippi State and USC are winning the doubles point less than half the time however here they sit in the final 16.

5 of the final 16 teams on the women’s side are winning the doubles point 75% of the time or better with Oklahoma State the best at 96.6%. Texas and Vanderbilt were the only two that are winning the point less than 60% of the time.

When you enter this stage of the NCAAs that one extra point becomes even bigger because winning four singles courts against anyone is going to be a tough task.