Unlike two years ago when the Super Regionals were played at campus sites, this year due to COVID we will see them contested at the USTA National Campus in Orlando. Five of the eight Super Regional matches in 2019 were regular season rematches but this year there are zero. The reason for this is several conferences limited travel plus there were a handful of teams (Georgia, Florida State, Cal) that either opted out or wouldn’t have qualified for the reduced size Kickoff Weekend and subsequent National Team Indoors back in February.

For a full recap of how each team earned its spot in the Sweet 16 you can read my opening round recap at this link.

The women played Friday and Saturday this past weekend with 13 of the 16 national seeds advancing to the Sweet 16. The last time 3 regional hosts exited prior to the Sweet 16 was 15 years ago in 2006 when #10 California, #13 Pepperdine, and #15 Clemson went home early

USC may have entered the NCAA Tournament with an ITA ranking of No. 35 but that didn’t stop the Trojans from pulling off a pair of upsets to advance to Orlando. In USC’s opening round match against No. 22 Oklahoma, the Trojans came back from a 3-1 deficit to pull off a thrilling 4-3 win. Both Dani Wilson and Constance Branstine came back from a set down to win identical 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 scorelines at No. 3 and No. 5 singles. In the second round against host Florida, the Trojans grabbed the early lead after taking the doubles point and then picked up straight set wins in singles from Eryn Cayetano, Summer Dvorak, and Clare McKee. USC will be the lowest ranked team to play in a Sweet 16 match since 2004 when No. 44 Arizona State advanced past LSU and Texas in the opening two rounds before falling to Pac-12 rival Washington

The opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament brought us several close matches along with a handful of upsets. Since the tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1999, there has always been at least 1 regional host that has failed to advance and this year saw 3 come up short.

Arizona, ranked No. 18, went to Kentucky and won what was expected to be, and was, the tightest regional. The Wildcats won a hotly contested battle in the first round over No. 46 Michigan. Arizona dropped the doubles point but won four of six singles matches with Gustaf Strom winning the final match left on court at No. 1 singles 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. In the second round, Arizona won the battle of the Wildcats and advanced to its first-ever Sweet 16 by knocking off the regional host and No. 14 seed Kentucky 4-2. Arizona won the doubles point and then in singles Herman Hoeyeraal, Carlos Hassey, and Jonas Ziverts picked up singles wins with Ziverts clinching at No. 2 with a 6-7, 6-1, 6-4 victory over #14 Gabriel Diallo.

The NCAA released the team brackets on Monday evening and on Tuesday the singles/doubles selections were made available with the actual bracket not set to come out until the end of the team event.

All of this year’s women’s regionals run on Friday and Saturday while the men are split between Friday/Saturday and Saturday/Sunday. All of the dual-site hosts have women on Friday/Saturday and men on Saturday/Sunday.

There are 7 schools that will host both the men and women with those being Baylor, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, UCF, and Virginia.

I’ll have my NCAA Tournament page up and running (see menu) and I plan on keeping it updated with schedules, scoring/video links, box scores, and more so make sure you keep it bookmarked.

Monday, May 3
NCAA Division I Women’s Team Selections – 6:00 pm ET – NCAA Stream
NCAA Division 1 Men’s Team Selections – 6:30 pm ET – NCAA Stream

Tuesday, May 4
NCAA D1 Men/Women Singles/Doubles Selections – 6:00 pm ET – MEN/WOMEN
NCAA Division II Men’s Team Selections – 8:00 pm ET – Selection Show/Release
NCAA Division II Women’s Team Selections – 8:30 pm ET – Selection Show/Release

Today is the final day of the regular season with all conference tournament action wrapping up in the next few hours. Below is your schedule of the day.

MEN
A10: #1 VCU vs. #3 Richmond (10:00 am) – Live Scoring/ESPN3
MIAA/GAC: #1M Washburn vs. #2M Northwest Missouri State (10:00 am) – Live Scoring/Video
BigSky: #S1 Northern Arizona vs. #S2 Idaho State (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
CACC: #2 Chestnut Hill at #1 Concordia (11:00 am) – Video
BIG10: 1E Ohio State vs. 1W Illinois (12:00 pm) – Live Scoring/Video
Colonial: #1 UNC Wilmington vs. #3 William & Mary (1:00 pm) – Live Scoring
GLVC: #1E Indianapolis vs. #1W Southwest Baptist (1:00 pm) – Video
BigWest: #1 Cal Poly vs. #3 UC Santa Barbara (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring  
Horizon: #1 Cleveland State vs. #2 Northern Kentucky (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring/ESPN+
WAC: #1 Grand Canyon vs. #2 New Mexico State (3:00 pm) – WAC Facebook Stream
MtnEast: #1 Charleston vs. #2 West Virginia Wesleyan (4:00 pm) – MtnEast Twitter

WOMEN
GLVC: #1E Indianapolis vs. #1W Southwest Baptist (10:00 am) – Video
Horizon: #1 UIC vs. #2 Youngstown State (11:00 am) – Live Scoring/ESPN+
BigSky: #S1 Northern Arizona vs. #S2 Weber State (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
WAC: #1 Grand Canyon vs. #2 New Mexico State (11:00 am) – WAC Facebook Stream
Patriot: #1 Boston U vs. #3 Navy (12:00 pm) – Live Scoring
MtnEast: #1 West Virginia State vs. #2 Charleston (1:00 pm) – WVS Twitter/Charleston Twitter
NE10: #1 Franklin Pierce vs. #3 Stonehill (1:00 pm) – NE10 Twitter
Big10: #1 Ohio State vs. #2 Michigan (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring/Video

Today is the final Saturday of the regular season with conference tournaments in the final and semifinal stages. Below is a list of what’s on tap for today along with any live scoring/video links. All times listed are eastern.

MEN (Matches in Bold are Finals):
PBC: #1 Columbus State vs. #2 Lander (9:00 am) – Live Scoring
A10: #1 VCU vs. #4 Davidson (10:00 am) – Live Scoring/Video
A10: #2 Dayton vs. #3 Richmond (10:30 am) – Live Scoring/Video
B10: 1E Ohio State vs. 2W Northwestern (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
BigSky: #N1 Idaho vs. #S2 Idaho State (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
BigSky: #S1 Northern Arizona vs. #N2 Portland State (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
Colonial: #1 UNC Wilmington vs. #5 James Madison (11:00 am) – Live Scoring
Summit: #1 Denver vs. #3 Omaha (12:00 pm) – Live Scoring
GLVC: #1E Indianapolis vs. #3E Illinois Springfield (1:00 pm) – Video
NE10: #1 Le Moyne vs. #3 Franklin Pierce (1:00 pm) – NE Twitter
MtnEast: #1 Charleston vs. #4 West Liberty (2:30 pm) – Charleston Twitter
ECC: #1 Queens vs. #2 St. Thomas Aquinas (3:00 pm) – Video
BigWest: #1 Cal Poly vs. #4 Hawaii (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring
BigWest: #2 UC Irvine vs. #3 UC Santa Barbara (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring
Colonial: #2 Elon vs. #3 William & Mary (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring
B10: 1W Illinois vs. 2E Michigan (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring
Horizon: #1 Cleveland State vs. #4 IUPUI (3:00 pm) – Live Scoring
WAC: #1 Grand Canyon vs. #4 Chicago State (3:00 pm) – WAC Facebook Stream
WAC: #2 New Mexico State vs. #3 Seattle (3:00 pm) – WAC Facebook Stream
MtnEast: #2 West Virginia Wesleyan vs. #3 Fairmont State (5:00 pm) – WVW Twitter
Horizon: #2 Northern Kentucky vs. #3 Youngstown State (6:00 pm) – Live Scoring