by Bobby Knight | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog
Brown Director of Athletics Jack Hayes announced the hiring of Tim Gray as the Bears new men’s head coach. Gray most recently served as a consultant at Donovan Sports Strategies with his last head coaching job coming at Bradley during the 2013-14 season. Bradley went 3-19 in that one season and dropped the program a few months after the season. Gray also spent six years as the women’s coach at Auburn, three years as the women’s coach at Eastern Michigan, along with a few other stops at the D3 level. Gray replaces Bryan Koniecko who went 24-26 (.480) in two seasons before leaving to become the women’s head coach at Central Florida.Brown...
by Bobby Knight | May 16, 2016 | Blog
What a crazy day it was on Sunday with not one, not two, but three regional hosts going down. The day started off in College Station with the resumption of Saturday’s match between Texas A&M and Texas and it finished in Lubbock with SMU kicking the door down and stunning Texas Tech.When the season started if you told me that Texas would be in Tulsa for the NCAA Round of 16 I would have told you to go see a doctor. Well Texas made a believer of me and many today after going into enemy territory and knocking off Texas A&M in a 4-3 thriller.The match originally began on Saturday but after Texas A&M took the doubles point the match was stopped...
by Bobby Knight | May 15, 2016 | Blog
It’s hard to believe that going into the fall Matt Roberts only had two returning players from his 2014-15 squad yet here we sit today with Mississippi State heading to the Round of 16 after routing Illinois 4-0.State got off to a quick start in doubles and went up early breaks at No. 2 and No. 3. State’s No. 3 team of Rishab Agarwal and Niclas Braun would win four straight games to go up 5-2 and they’d end up winning 6-3. State’s Trevor Foshey and Luka Sucevic led 4-2 at No. 2 but Illinois’s Alex Jesse and Aiden Jiang would end up breaking back and forcing a tiebreak. Before the tiebreak really got going State’s No. 1 team...
by Bobby Knight | May 12, 2016 | Blog
Georgia RegionalDan Magill Tennis Complex – Athens, GA[7] Georgia Bulldogs (20-4) vs. [49-64] South Carolina State Bulldogs (12-8) – Saturday 1pm ET – Georgia was awarded an at-large berth after falling to Florida in the finals of the SEC Tournament while South Carolina State got the MEAC’s automatic berth for the eighth year in a row after defeating Florida A&M in the finals. SCSU played five teams that were ranked during the season and went 0-5 while being outscored 32-1. SCSU will be making its 14th all-time appearance at the NCAAs with a record of 0-13. Doubles Records: Georgia 16-7, South Carolina State...
by Bobby Knight | May 1, 2016 | Blog
Semifinal Saturday was a busy one with two of the closest matches taking place at the same time in Stillwater at the Big 12 Championships.TCU edged Oklahoma in the regular season 4-3 and even though Andrew Harris wasn’t playing today you figured it would be still be a close one. TCU’s usual No. 4 Eduardo Nava was out as well so each team had to shuffle its lineup a bit.TCU took the doubles point but it was anything but easy – well it was easy at No. 3 but not on the other two courts. Cameron Norrie and Alex Rybakov won 6-1 at No. 3 but OU’s Spencer Papa and Alex Ghilea picked up a 7-5 win at No. 1. OU’s Axel Alvarez and Austin...
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