by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
When Virginia and North Carolina step on the court at 11am it’ll be the first time ever that a pair of ACC schools will play for the Men’s National Team Indoor Championship. It’s North Carolina first appearance in the finals while Virginia will be making its sixth final in the last eight years and seventh overall.Virginia has owned North Carolina over the last 10 years winning the last 15 matches with North Carolina’s last win coming back on April 14th, 2006 (4-3 at UNC). Of course to be fair I have to mention that Virginia has won 140 straight matches against ACC schools with its last loss coming to Duke at the ACC Tournament in April...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
In the first semifinal of the day North Carolina advanced to its first-ever final at the National Team Indoors after coming from behind to beat UCLA 4-2.North Carolina didn’t take the easy way though after dropping the doubles point for the second time in three matches this weekend. UCLA’s new #3 team of Maxime Cressy and Karue Sell knocked off Blaine Boyden and Ronnie Schneider 6-3. Cressy/Sell broke UNC on the deciding point to go up 3-1 then held for 4-1. The teams exchanged holds until UCLA held from 40-15 to win 6-3.North Carolina answered by winning at #2 doubles as Jack Murray and Brayden Schnur defeated Gage Brymer and Austin Rapp 6-4....
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
[3] North Carolina (8-0) vs. [7] UCLA (7-1) – 12pm est – North Carolina is coming off a pretty thorough 4-2 win over Ohio State while UCLA rode the wave of momentum to get past Texas A&M 4-2. It’ll be interesting to see if either team makes a change at the bottom of the singles lineup after each team’s #6 took it on the chin yesterday. I think UNC probably sticks with Kodali since he had a pretty convincing win the previous day while I look for Billy Martin to give Austin Rapp another try at #6 after Joey Di Giulio came up well short yesterday against Lunkin.Overall Record: North Carolina 8-0, UCLA 7-1Indoors Record: North...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 14, 2016 | Blog
It was definitely a day of thrillers as both Virginia and TCU each won 4-3 matches that came down to a close third set to decide the match.Virginia came into its match against ACC foe Wake Forest riding an incredible 139-match conference winning streak but the streak would come oh so close to ending.Wake Forest came out and claimed the doubles point by winning both #1 and #3 doubles in a tiebreak. Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim posted a 7-0 shutout in the tiebreak at #1 while Romain Bogaerts and Dennis Uspensky won the deciding tiebreak at #3 by taking it 7-3. Both Bogaerts and Uspensky really went after JC Aragone in the tiebreak as the Virginia...
by Bobby Knight | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog
[3] North Carolina (7-0) vs. [6] Ohio State (9-0) – 9am est – The opening quarterfinal of the day should be a dandy with Ohio State come off a 4-0 rout of Baylor while North Carolina overcame Texas Tech 4-1. North Carolina may be the higher ranked team but I think Ohio State is the team to beat on the bottom of the draw. Ohio State has been downright dominant in doubles over the years and this year is no different with the Buckeyes a perfect 9-0.Overall Record: North Carolina 7-0, Ohio State 9-0Indoors Record: North Carolina 7-0, Ohio State 9-0Doubles Record: North Carolina 5-2, Ohio State 9-0Projected Singles Lineup w UTR in ( ):1....
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