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NCAA 1st Round Previews: TCU & Wake Forest Regionals

TCU RegionalBayard H. Friedman Tennis Center – Fort Worth, TX[5] TCU (21-7) vs. [49-64] Marist (15-7) – Friday 6pm – #6 TCU got in as an at-large after falling to #2 Baylor 4-3 in the Big 12 Semifinals while Marist is back in the NCAAs for the 3rd year in a row after beating Monmouth 4-2 in the MAAC Championship. Doubles Records: TCU 14-11, Marist 13-6UTR Starting 6 Power Rating: TCU 84, Marist 71FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of May 1st.  For more details about UTR check out their website. The UTR Power 6 is the combined UTRs of the starting...

Saturday Recap: Step On Back – The Pack Attacked

Going into today’s match against #12 Wake Forest, NC State had played in 11 matches that finished with a 4-3 score with the Pack on the losing end in 7 of those 11 matches.  It was just last weekend that NC State had #16 Virginia Tech on the ropes but the Pack couldn’t slam the door shut and watched as the Hokies #5 rallied from 5-2 down in the 3rd to win.Today NC State finally broke through as they upset Wake Forest 4-3.  The Wolfpack took the doubles point with wins at 2 and 3 and then picked up singles wins from Simon Norenius, Austin Powell, and Beck Bond at 2, 3, and 4 to seal the deal.  The match was played indoors at NC...

Friday Recap – Aggies Over Short-Handed Vandy, Wake Hammers FSU, Louisville Get A Big Road W

Well the big match of the day was actually a good bit closer than I thought it would be after noticing that Vanderbilt was without its #1 singles player #10 Gonzales Austin who also makes up the #1 doubles team in the country with Rhys Johnson.  I still haven’t seen anything official from anyone on why AJ didn’t play but if I had to guess I’d say he was under the weather which I can relate to. The one thing I don’t get is how neither of the school’s press releases bothered to even mention the fact that Austin didn’t play.  I mean if the starting quarterback on the football team didn’t play it’d have to...

Friday Preview

Friday will be a fairly light day of activity with just 8 teams in the Top 20 in action and with the only matchup between top 20 teams taking place in College Station as #9 Texas A&M hosts #11 Vanderbilt.Before I preview that one here are a few others to keep an eye on today:#31 San Diego (8-3) at #34 Texas Tech (12-4) – 1pm est – Live Scoring – San Diego is coming off a hard fought loss against USC and has wins on the year over South Carolina and South Florida while Texas Tech has only played 1 match in the last 3 weeks though has wins this year over Auburn and Mississippi State.  #24 Florida State (10-4) at #19 Wake Forest (9-4)...

Buckeye 200, Deacs Win, Wolfpack Depth, Frogs Rule, Northwestern Comes Back

Ohio State just doesn’t lose at home and they proved it again on Sunday winning for an unbelievable 200th time in a row as they handily beat a Top 25 South Florida team 4-0.  The streak began all the way back on April 6th, 2003 with a win over Purdue and has grown and grown as the years have gone by.  During the week I’m going to compile a list of everyone that Ohio State has beaten at home in the last 12 years so look for that no later than Wednesday.  Here is a good article that Colette Lewis wrote on the streak back in 2013.In my opinion the biggest surprise for Ohio State this year has been the play of Chris Diaz at #1. Last year...