by Bobby Knight | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog
It didn’t take long to have our first dual-match that was decided by the final court but that’s what happened on Thursday night in Tulsa inside The Case. Tulsa, which hosted last year’s NCAA Championships, jumped out to a 3-0 lead on the defending Missouri Valley Conference Champs Wichita State after rallying to take the doubles point and picking up straight set wins from Majed Kilani and Daniel Santos at No. 2 and No. 6. During the doubles point the Shockers got a quick win at No. 1 and led 4-0 at No. 3 but the Golden Hurricane rallied with six straight points to take it 6-4. The doubles decider came at No. 2 with Tulsa’s Kilani and...
by Bobby Knight | May 21, 2016 | Blog
I think we now know that nothing is going to be easy for anyone in this year’s NCAA Tournament as evidenced by yesterday’s women’s matches and today’s first three men’s matches.Ohio State and Texas were supposed to start at 9 a.m. this morning but due to the wet courts outside they got put on hold and stayed on hold for a while. It seemed like the plan was to have them play indoors after the conclusion of the TCU/Cal match but the decision was made to move them outdoors so at 12:12 p.m. central time doubles finally begin under grey skies.Ohio State would take the all-important doubles point for the 31st time in 35 tries when...
by Bobby Knight | May 18, 2016 | Blog
[1] Virginia Cavaliers (26-4) vs. [16] Oklahoma State Cowboys (20-7) – 1pm ET – Virginia advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 4-0 win over Monmouth and a 4-1 win over Penn State while Oklahoma State beat Bryant and Arkansas 4-0. Oklahoma State will only be playing 75 miles from its Stillwater campus so it should have a good amount of fan support but it’ll take a Herculean effort to get past Virginia. Doubles Records: Virginia 26-4, Oklahoma State 18-8UTR Starting 6 Power Rating: Virginia 86, Oklahoma State 82FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of May 16th....
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 14, 2016 | Blog
The opening day of the NCAA Tournament is in the books and as you can see from the scores below there were a few surprises. All the top seeds cruised with only Illinois yielding a point while a pair of 33-48 seeds pulled off mild upsets.Friday Finals:[3] UCLA def. Weber State 4-0[4] TCU def. Jackson State 4-0[6] Wake Forest def. Coastal Carolina 4-0[10] USC def. UNLV 4-0[11] Oklahoma def. UT Arlington 4-0[12] Texas A&M def. George Washington 4-0[15] Illinois def. Western Michigan 4-1[17-32] Texas def. Lamar 4-0[17-32] San Diego def. Vanderbilt 4-0[17-32] Michigan def. East Tennessee State 4-3[17-32] Georgia Tech def. UC Santa Barbara 4-1[17-32] Mississippi...
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