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Weekend Preview (3/4-3/6)

by | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog | 2 comments

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The weekend is here and while there aren’t as many high profile matches as in past weeks there is still plenty of quality tennis to be played.
SEC conference play gets underway this weekend with a big match taking place on Sunday in College Station between #8 Texas A&M and #30 Florida. These two teams were selected as the preseason #2 and #3 by the SEC coaches so it’ll be a chance for one of them to get a leg up on the other. Of course before Florida gets a crack at A&M it’ll have to take care of business in Baton Rouge on Friday night against #32 LSU. The Bayou Bengals have been known to give higher ranked teams some trouble at home so we’ll see if that’s the case tonight. Texas A&M actually opens up its weekend on the road at #66 Auburn though I’m not expecting that one to be too close.

There’s a good one on the slate for Friday evening in Lexington as #22 Kentucky hosts #27 Arkansas. The Hogs are coming off a huge 5-2 win at Oklahoma while Kentucky took it to Indiana last weekend.

Wake Forest will be playing a pair of top 40 teams at home this weekend, #34 Georgia Tech and #40 NC State, but it’ll be doing so without its top two singles players. Both Skander Mansouri and Petros Chrysochos are playing in the Davis Cup this weekend for their respective countries so the rest of team will have to step up its game or it could be a tough weekend for the Deacs. 
It’ll be a huge weekend in Des Moines for #36 Drake as the Bulldogs host two top 75 teams, #33 Iowa and #65 Cornell, plus another Big Ten school, Michigan State. I’ll actually be making my way north to Des Moines around noon so plan on getting plenty of updates throughout the weekend from each of these three matches. 
The big match on Saturday will take place in Tampa as #17 South Florida hosts #3 TCU. The proud new papa, David Roditi, who just welcomed the second addition to his family will have to find the strength to guide his team in another big road match.  South Florida played without its #2 singles player, Dominic Cotrone, last weekend so it’ll need him healthy and in the singles lineup to have a legitimate chance in this one. 
Oklahoma welcomes in #4 Ohio State to Norman on Sunday in a match that will be televised by Fox College Sports and streamed online through the Fox Sports Go app. Oklahoma ended Ohio State’s NCAA record 200-match home winning streak last year so you know the Buckeyes will have revenge on its mind in this one.

The Battle of the Commonwealth will take place Sunday evening in Blacksburg as #53 Virginia Tech looks to jumpstart its season against #2.

There is also a huge matchup in the American as #35 Tulane hosts #23 Memphis.

Follow each of the matches at the below live scoring links:

Friday, March 4th:
Murray State at Louisville – 9:30am est – Live Scoring
#15 Texas vs. UTSA (Corpus) – 10:30am est/9:30am cst – Texas Twitter
South Alabama at Texas A&M CC – 10:30am est/9:30am cst – aTm CC Twitter
#47 Florida State at Clemson – 11am est – Live Scoring
San Francisco at #75 Cal Poly – 1pm est/10am pst – Cal Poly Twitter
#26 Ole Miss at #64 Tennessee – 1pm est – Live Scoring/Blog
#50 Mississippi State at #16 Georgia – 2:30pm est – Live Scoring/Video/Blog
#54 Vanderbilt at #1 North Carolina – 3pm est – Live Scoring/Video
#40 NC State at #53 Virginia Tech – 3pm est – Live Scoring/Video
#8 Texas A&M at #66 Auburn – 3pm est/2pm cst – Live Scoring
Utah at #48 Denver – 3pm est/1pm mst – Live Scoring
#58 Indiana at #38 Princeton – 4pm est – Pton Twitter/Video $
#34 Georgia Tech at #7 Wake Forest – 4pm est – Live Scoring/Video & WF Blog
Sacramento State at #46 UC Santa Barbara – 4:30pm est/1:30pm pst – UCSB Twitter
USC Upstate at Clemson – 5pm est – Live Scoring
#2 Virginia at Louisville – 5pm est – Live Scoring
#27 Arkansas at #22 Kentucky – 5pm est – Live Scoring
#49 Alabama at #73 South Carolina – 5pm est – Live Scoring
#15 Texas vs. UTRGV or Louisiana Lafayette (Corpus) – 5:30pm est/4:30pm cst – Texas Twitter
#44 BYU at #70 New Mexico – 6:30pm est/4:30pm mst – Live Scoring
#30 Florida at #32 LSU – 6:30pm est/5:30pm cst – Live Scoring
Wichita State at SMU – 7pm est/6pm cst – Live Scoring
#33 Iowa at #36 Drake – 7pm est/6pm cst – Live Scoring
Minnesota at #21 Oregon – 8pm est/5pm pst – Live Scoring/Video

Saturday, March 5th:
#24 Penn State at #38 Princeton – 11am est – Pton Twitter/Video $
Green Bay at #55 Wisconsin – 12pm est/11am cst – Live Scoring
Valparaiso at #60 William & Mary – 12pm est – Valpo Twitter
South Carolina State at #51 UNC Wilmington – 12pm est – Live Scoring
#3 TCU at #17 South Florida – 1pm est – Live Scoring
#28 Old Dominion at Elon – 1pm est – Live Scoring
Air Force at #70 New Mexico – 1pm est/11am mst – Live Scoring
#63 East Tennessee State at UAB – 2pm est/1pm cst – ETSU Twitter
#65 Cornell at Nebraska – 2pm est/1pm cst – Live Scoring
Fresno State at #72 Arizona – 2pm est/12pm mst – Live Scoring
#59 Penn vs. Utah (Denver) – 3pm est/1pm mst – Penn Twitter/Utah Twitter
San Francisco at #46 UC Santa Barbara – 4pm est/1pm pst – UCSB Twitter
Air Force at #70 New Mexico – 7pm est/5pm mst – New Mexico Twitter
Michigan State at #36 Drake – 7pm est/6pm cst – Live Scoring
Nebraska-Omaha at Nebraska – 8pm est/7pm cst – Live Scoring

Sunday, March 6th:
#50 Mississippi State at #73 South Carolina – 11am est – Live Scoring
#63 East Tennessee State at Samford – 12pm est/11am cst – ETSU Twitter
#3 TCU at Central Florida – 12pm est – UCF Twitter/TCU Twitter
#34 Georgia Tech at #57 Duke – 12pm est – Live Scoring/Video
Louisville at #41 Notre Dame – 12pm est – Live Scoring & Video
#65 Cornell at #36 Drake – 12pm est/11am cst – Live Scoring
#19 Michigan at #17 South Florida – 12pm est – Live Scoring
Weber State at Portland – 1pm est/10am pst – Live Scoring & Video
#40 NC State at #7 Wake Forest – 1pm est – Live Scoring/Video & WF Blog
#30 Florida at #8 Texas A&M – 1pm est/12pm cst – Live Scoring & Video
#4 Ohio State at #13 Oklahoma – 1pm est/12pm cst – Live Scoring/Fox Sports Go
#49 Alabama at #16 Georgia – 1pm est – Live Scoring/Video/Blog
#26 Ole Miss at #22 Kentucky – 1pm est – Live Scoring
#27 Arkansas at #64 Tennessee – 1pm est – Live Scoring/Blog
#23 Memphis at #35 Tulane – 2pm est/1pm cst – Tulane Twitter
#66 Auburn at #32 LSU – 2pm est/1pm cst – Live Scoring
#59 Penn at #48 Denver – 2pm est/12pm mst – Live Scoring
#47 Florida State at Miami FL – 3pm est – Live Scoring/ESPN3
Minnesota at #45 Washington – 3pm est/12pm pst – Live Scoring/Video
Utah State at #56 Pacific – 4pm est/1pm pst – Pacific Twitter
Tennessee Tech at #7 Wake Forest – 5pm est – Live Scoring/Video & WF Blog
#20 Tulsa at SMU – 5:30pm est/4:30pm cst – Live Scoring
Nicholls State at #8 Texas A&M – 5:30pm est/4:30pm cst – Live Scoring & Video
#2 Virginia at #53 Virginia Tech – 6pm est – Live Scoring/Video
Alcorn State at #32 LSU – 6pm est/5pm cst – Live Scoring

2 Comments

  1. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    NC State pulls one of the worst stacks I have ever seen! In men's acc tennis they put a Utr 11.0 at #1 doubles. Bobby, how can coaches get away with that?

  2. 181
    181 on Thu March 19, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    TCU- South Florida has a twist in that USF's Assistant Coach and former Top 20 ATP Doubles Ashley Fisher (semis US Open, wins over Bryans and Rafa) played with Roditi at TCU