by Bobby Knight | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog
I didn’t think Oklahoma and Baylor could top some of their previous meetings but they sure tried their best today. In a match that was delayed multiple times by weather it was #1 Oklahoma doing the unthinkable and beating #2 Baylor for the 4th time this year and for the 2nd time in Waco.Baylor came out strong in doubles and jumped out to early break leads at 1 and 3 while Oklahoma got the early break lead at 2. While Baylor’s #1 team of Julian Lenz and Diego Galeano would pull away for a quick 6-1 win its #3 team of Vince Schneider and Felipe Rios would lose its early 3-1 lead and would find itself down 4-3. After an exchange of...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog
I crunched the numbers twice and below is what I came up with. If the NCAA seeding committee goes off the rankings then UCLA would get to host with Columbia missing out by a few points.With the at-large cutoff at 42 it appears that Tulane and Dartmouth will be the first 2 out with Georgia Tech, Tennessee, and San Diego State just sliding in.There is still some guesswork involved because since I only know who was ranked in the top 75 if someone has a win or multiple wins over teams ranked outside the top 75 then it’s possible that I could over/under estimate points. I’ve been pretty close all year but a small error on the first run could...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog
Championship Sunday is here and 2 of the 3 will be available over the air with Fox Sports 2 televising the Big 12 Championship LIVE and ESPN3 covering the ACC Championship (weather permitting). The Virginia/Wake Forest match gets underway at 10am so it should be over by the time Oklahoma and Baylor tie it on for a 4th time. Illinois also has a live stream of the Big 10 Championship although they don’t have sound and the picture is just so-so. #1 Oklahoma (23-2) at #2 Baylor (21-4) – 1pm est – This will be the 4th match of the year between these 2 with Oklahoma having won the first 3. I’d expect nothing more than epic fight...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog
Big Ten Conference (Champaign, IL) April 23-26 – Ohio State is defending champion. Participants: Illinois, Ohio State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Indiana, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan St, Penn St, Wisconsin, Michigan, PurdueThursday Schedule #8 Iowa 4, #9 Wisconsin 0 #5 Indiana 4, #12 Purdue 2#10 Nebraska 4, #7 Michigan State 3#11 Michigan 4, #6 Penn State 2Friday Schedule:#1 Illinois 4, #8 Iowa 0#4 Northwestern 4, #5 Indiana 1#2 Ohio State 4, #10 Nebraska 0#3 Minnesota 4, #11 Michigan 0Saturday Schedule:#1 Illinois def. #4 Northwestern 4-0#2 Ohio State def. #3 Minnesota 4-0Sunday Schedule:#1 Illinois def. #2 Ohio State...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog
Pac-12 Conference (Ojai, CA) April 22-26 – UCLA is defending champion. Participants include USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Washington, Oregon, Utah, ArizonaWednesday Schedule #5 Oregon 4, #8 Arizona 1#6 Washington 4, #7 Utah 0Thursday Schedule #4 California 4, #5 Oregon 3#3 UCLA 4, #6 Washington 0Friday Schedule – Live Scoring#1 Stanford def. #4 California 4-1#2 USC vs. #3 UCLA 4-1Saturday Schedule:#2 USC def. #1 Stanford 4-3Saturday Results:Tonight’s Pac 12 Championship match was the rubber match in the USC/Stanford series with each winning at home. Stanford would take the doubles point for the 3rd time this year...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 26, 2015 | Blog
What a day of tennis in Waco – 2 semifinal matches played simultaneously on adjacent courts with both coming down to a 3rd set tiebreak to decide it and they both finished within seconds of each other. It’s too bad those FoxSports cameras weren’t in operation today because it was rough trying to watch the conclusion of the Baylor/TCU match due to the streaming video being reduced to freeze-frame video. As a side note, for those that were wondering, it was confirmed today by Baylor that PlaySight will be installing new HD cameras with sound in time for the NCAAs so the viewing public won’t have to be subjected to any more of the...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2015 | Blog
It’s go time for the ACC, Big 10, and Big 12 with each conference down to the semifinals of their conference tournaments plus the Pac 12 has reached its Championship match.ACC:#5 [1] Virginia vs. #16 [4] North Carolina – 10am est – Virginia won both the regular season meetings with the Wahoos beating UNC 6-1 in Charlottesville and blanking them 4-0 at the National Indoors in Chicago. Neither match was particularly close though the match at UVA was the better of the two with UNC taking 3 sets and losing several 7-5. FYI, the number beside the player’s school is the player’s Universal Tennis Rating as of April 25th For...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 25, 2015 | Blog
Another action packed day of college tennis is in the books and it was the ACC giving us the 2 best matches of the day as Georgia Tech and North Carolina both pulled out 4-3 thrillers. I’m big fan of the schools that take the time to put an audio or video interview out on twitter shortly after the match finished. TCU has done a great job all year getting a 30-second interview with David Roditi out on twitter and the last few days Georgia Tech has done the same with Kenny Thorne. It’s always better to hear the comments from someone as opposed to reading them. I’m also a fan of school’s posting video clips of match...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 24, 2015 | Blog
Most of the conference tournaments have reached the quarterfinals so its time for the rubber to hit the road as the higher seeds start to face a little heat. Below I’ll take a look at the matches in the ACC, Big 12, Pac 12, and Big 10. I’m not seeing any upsets in these 4 conferences although the match between Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech could be very, very close. The Mountain West Network has wall-to-wall coverage of every match on both the men’s and women’s side and I must say that I’ve been very impressed with the production they’ve put out so far. If you haven’t checked it out yet make sure you do...
by Bobby Knight | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog
It was a day of close matches as we saw several lower seeds pull off upsets. In the ACC, #75 Clemson beat #32 Louisville 4-3 and #55 Georgia Tech hammered #35 Notre Dame 4-0. In the Mountain West unranked Nevada sent #67 Utah State packing win a 4-2 win and Boise State did the same to #69 Fresno State by knocking them off 4-0. In the Big Ten, Michigan beat #48 Penn State 4-2 and Nebraska came from behind to beat Michigan State 4-3. In the Pac 12, #50 Oregon looked like it was going to upset #25 Cal but the Bears rallied to win 4-3. Read about each match below.Clemson lost the regular season meeting against Louisville at home by a...
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