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...
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 | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog
Sunday was a tremendous day for college tennis with five matches broadcast on National TV. The day started off with Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sport Oklahoma showing the Oklahoma/Kansas women’s match. Then you had Fox Sports 2 showing a doubleheader in Stillwater with the Oklahoma State women hosting TCU while the Oklahoma State men hosted Baylor. Lastly you had the Pac-12 Network showing a UCLA/USC doubleheader with the men playing first and then the women second.Despite these matches being on television the stands were packed and the crowds were loud which made for a great environment for those of us that watched from home. I hope today was a...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog
It was a nice weekend for the two Southern California Pac-12 schools as both UCLA and USC swept their Northern California neighbors, Cal and Stanford. Both Cal and Stanford went 2-0 in doubles on the weekend but neither could do enough damage in singles to make the early lead hold up.Cal’s Mads Engsted and JT Nishimura cruised to a 6-2 win at No. 3 doubles over Gage Brymer and Max Cressy but the Bruins appeared to be in control with 4-1* and *4-2 leads at No. 1 and No. 2. Cal would get the break back on both courts and Filip Bergevi and Florian Lakat would take the final five games at No. 1 to win it 6-4 and give the Bears the doubles point.UCLA...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 2, 2016 | Blog
When North Carolina defeated Virginia to win the National Team Indoors back in February many thought that win wiped out all the streaks that Virginia had over North Carolina. It turns out there was another streak that was still intact going into today’s match and that was the fact that Virginia had won the doubles point over North Carolina in 18 straight matches dating all the way back to April 3, 2004. Well that streak was broken today when North Carolina found a way to pull out the point in dramatic fashion.Virginia’s Collin Altamirano and JC Aragone didn’t waste any time at No. 3 as they ran all over Ronnie Schneider and Andrew Gores...
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