I saw earlier on ZooTennis that the NCAA Championship Cabinet decided not to approve no-ad scoring for the NCAAs so come mid May in Waco regular scoring will be used for both the team championships as well as singles and doubles.
Here are the documents that contain the full results from the survey that was done by all the coaches and student athletes pertaining to format changes along with the ITA’s Division I Operating Committee’s proposal to the NCAA D1 Tennis Committee.
With this hitting the wire it’ll be interesting to see what format the conferences use between now and the NCAAs because it would make the most sense to play the format that will be used during the season ending NCAA Championships. According to the above document the Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big 12, Colonial, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Pac 12 Men, SEC Men, and Summit all voted to stick with the new shortened format (no-ad, no warmups, dubs to 6, dubs stop at clinch) regardless of the NCAA D1 TC’s decision. Several other conferences including the ACC and Big 10 voted to play the same format as the NCAAs while others including the AAC and Ivy hadn’t decided yet.
With this hitting the wire it’ll be interesting to see what format the conferences use between now and the NCAAs because it would make the most sense to play the format that will be used during the season ending NCAA Championships. According to the above document the Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big 12, Colonial, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Pac 12 Men, SEC Men, and Summit all voted to stick with the new shortened format (no-ad, no warmups, dubs to 6, dubs stop at clinch) regardless of the NCAA D1 TC’s decision. Several other conferences including the ACC and Big 10 voted to play the same format as the NCAAs while others including the AAC and Ivy hadn’t decided yet.
This decision to play with regular scoring during the tournament and during the regular season for those conference that voted that way should make many tennis fans happy with myself included.
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