by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
Last weekend was full of some wild finishes, but as the dust settled, one team remained on top.TCU held serve and finished the Big XII regular season a perfect 5-0. Over the weekend, TCU beat Baylor at home and Texas Tech on the road. TCU locked up the regular season title on Thursday by beating Baylor 4-1. TCU won the doubles point fairly comfortably and won all three singles matches 6-3, 6-4. Baylors win came from Roy Smith at #6 singles 6-0, 6-1. On Sunday TCU played Texas Tech in Lubbock. The Horned Frogs jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the match; however, the Red Raiders had the momentum as they took the first set on the four remaining courts. Texas...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
The final week of the regular season is coming to a close and while some teams wrapped up play last week others are playing conference tournaments this week. If you are ranked in the 38 to 50 range that means you’re on the bubble so not only do you want to keep winning (if you have matches left) but you also need others around you to fall so they don’t pass you. I’ll go team-by-team to tell you what each team needs to do to give themselves their best chance of securing an NCAA at-large bid. The at-large cutoff is expected to be at either 42 or 43 with San Diego’s outcome at the WCC Tournament determining which number it’ll be. A...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
The #33 Wolf Pack of NC State hosted Pittsburgh and Syracuse over the weekend, and split, beating Pitt but falling to a Syracuse team that has had a really good April. NC State ends conference play at 7-7, Pitt goes winless, and #27 Syracuse ends conference play 8-6.After starting conference play 3-2, U of L drops its final 9 games, with losses to Miami and Florida State this past weekend, to finish a disappointing 3-11. Speaking of disappointing, the Demon Deacons dropped both their matches, losing to Boston College on Friday and to UVa on Sunday. They have fallen all the way to an 11 seed in the ACC tournament and will face 14 seed Notre Dame on Wednesday....
by Bobby Knight | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog
Twelve automatic bids went out last week on the women’s side, eleven conference tournaments and the Ivy League, with the top seed winning seven conference tournaments and the two seed winning the other four. Below are last week’s big winners and further below are the teams that were last week’s biggest losers. Vanderbilt – the Commodores won the SEC Championship for the second year in a row, third time in the last four years, with a 4-0 win over the second seed Florida. VU junior Fernanda Contreras clinched the match with a dominating 6-2, 6-1 win at No. 2. The top seeds defeated Texas A&M 4-1 in the quarterfinals and Ole...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
By now most of you have probably heard that the Arkansas women played Tennessee State 6 times yesterday to get their record up to .500 so they could qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Since I tweeted about this on @college10sranks I’ve been swarmed with replies and messages. Let me start by saying the point of this post is to propose a solution, not whine about something without offering a solution. I am also not into character assassinations or defamation in any way unless warranted and with the full story. Since all this happened I reached out to Coach Monroe and AD Phillips at Tennessee State and they were kind enough to call me back and...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
The ACC men’s tennis regular season wrapped up this past weekend and it settled the final seeding for the ACC tournament that will get started on Wednesday in Cary, NC. Before I get into breaking down the tournament I want to recap the season for each ACC team. How the 2018 regular season wound up, what went well and what didn’t? Obviously for many of these teams the real season judgement will come in the conference and NCAA tournament but for now I will look back and grade each team based on the regular season alone. Let’s start this comprehensive look at the ACC season from the top and work our way down to the bottom.(1) Wake Forest...
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