by Bobby Knight | May 5, 2017 | Blog
The ITA released its final team, singles, and doubles rankings of the regular season with the team rankings falling in line with what I projected earlier in the week. The men’s top five was Wake Forest, Virginia, Ohio State, USC, and UCLA while the women’s top five was Florida, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, and Georgia. The NCAA followed the rankings when doing seeding on the men’s side but as we found out on Tuesday they did not on the women’s side with North Carolina moving up to No. 2 while Texas Tech passed Stanford for No. 6. In the men’s singles rankings the only change in the top 10 was Illinois...
by Bobby Knight | May 3, 2017 | Blog
The final USTA Top 25 of the regular season came out today with the Florida women remaining at No. 1 while the Virginia men replaced Wake Forest as the new men’s No. 1. Virginia defeated Wake Forest in the ACC Championship Final on Sunday to finish the regular season 28-1 while Wake Forest finished with a 27-2 record. Georgia, Oklahoma, and Mississippi State made the biggest jumps on the men’s side with Georgia coming up five spots to No. 8 after defeating Mississippi State in the SEC Championship Final, Oklahoma came up four spots to No. 10 after defeating Texas at the Big 12 Tournament, and Mississippi State came up four spots after...
by Bobby Knight | May 3, 2017 | Blog
I looked at the men’s bracket last night now I’ll take a look at the women’s bracket. Florida, which has been No. 1 all season, was named as the No. 1 seed with North Carolina grabbing the No. 2 despite finishing No. 4 in the final rankings which will be published on Thursday. If the committee would have gone solely off ranking then Ohio State would have been No. 2, Vanderbilt No. 3, and North Carolina No. 4. The other change came at No. 6 with Texas Tech jumping Stanford despite Stanford having almost a 3 point lead in the ITA rankings. It’s also interesting to note that all five of these changes revolved around Power 5 Conference...
by Bobby Knight | May 3, 2017 | Blog
The 2017 NCAA Tournament field was announced earlier today and there really weren’t any surprises compared to what I was expecting. ACC regular season champion Wake Forest was named as the top seed with the Demon Deacon’s half of the draw having all four Pac-12 hosts, both SEC hosts, and fellow ACC member North Carolina. Virginia, which is the two-time defending NCAA champion, drew the No. 2 seed and in their side of the draw they have all five Big 12 hosts, the lone midwest host (Ohio State), and Florida. Even though TCU is the No. 6 seed I think most would agree they are one of the best four teams in the country so in essence Virginia’s...
by Bobby Knight | May 2, 2017 | Blog
NCAA Men’s Selection Show – 5:00 p.m. ET – LINKNCAA Women’s Selection Show – 5:30 p.m. ET – LINKNCAA Singles/Doubles Selections – Wednesday 6:00 p.m. ETOnce the draws are posted I’ll have them posted here so we can start breaking them down!!
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