by Bobby Knight | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
Friday is going to be a blockbuster day with five matches between top 25 opponents. The big one in the ACC is the rematch from this the National Team Indoor finals as No. 1 North Carolina hosts No. 3 Virginia. The big one in the SEC is in College Station between the conference’s highest ranked teams as No. 10 Texas A&M hosts No. 7 Georgia.#3 Virginia (16-2) at #1 North Carolina (20-1) – 3pm ET – North Carolina snapped a 15-match losing streak to Virginia and in the process snapped Virginia’s 140-match ACC winning streak when the Tar Heels upset Virginia back on February 15 (box score below). The big story in this one will be if...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog
Most of the bigger conferences are into the middle of conference play while some of the smaller ones are still playing out of conference.There are two top 25 matchups on Friday with No. 24 Mississippi State hosting No. 16 Florida while No. 23 Michigan welcomes in No. 25 Penn State.In my opinion the biggest match of the day in the Big Ten isn’t the Michigan/Penn State match but rather the one between Iowa and Wisconsin. Neither team is going to win the conference this year so to get into the NCAAs as an at-large these guys will need to be ranked in the low 40s and if you want to stay in the low 40s or better you have to win these types of matches. I do...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
It’s Friday and that means another weekend of action packed college tennis action. There are three top-25 matchups on the docket for Friday with two of them getting underway early in the day.Ninth-ranked Texas A&M (15-4) and No. 25 Mississippi State (11-3) were originally supposed to play on Friday evening but due to the potential for rain the match was moved up to noon central. Last weekend Texas A&M split road matches with a loss to Arkansas and a win over Ole Miss while Mississippi State swept its matches against Kentucky and Tennessee. Texas A&M hasn’t lost a conference match at the Mitchell Tennis Center in over three years...
by Bobby Knight | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
There were actually four ranked versus ranked matches on Thursday with the higher ranked team winning three of the four.No. 4 Virginia went to Tulsa, the site of this year’s NCAA Championships, and rolled over No. 26 Tulsa 6-1. Virginia won a pretty tight doubles point by breaking Tulsa’s 5-6 service game at No. 3 to claim the point. Ryan Shane, Collin Altamirano, Mac Styslinger, and Henrik Wiersholm won in straight sets for Virginia at 1, 2, 5, and 6 while Thai-Son Kwiatkowski won a three-set battle over Dylan McCloskey at 3. Tulsa’s Juan Matias Gonzalez earned the lone point for the Golden Hurricane with a straight set win at No....
by Bobby Knight | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog
The weekend is here and while there aren’t as many high profile matches as in past weeks there is still plenty of quality tennis to be played.SEC conference play gets underway this weekend with a big match taking place on Sunday in College Station between #8 Texas A&M and #30 Florida. These two teams were selected as the preseason #2 and #3 by the SEC coaches so it’ll be a chance for one of them to get a leg up on the other. Of course before Florida gets a crack at A&M it’ll have to take care of business in Baton Rouge on Friday night against #32 LSU. The Bayou Bengals have been known to give higher ranked teams some trouble at home...
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