by Bobby Knight | May 15, 2018 | Blog
Vanderbilt Quarter:[1] Vanderbilt vs. [16] Miami: The top seeded Commodores enter this match riding a 13-match winning streak while the No. 16 seeded Hurricanes have won 9 of their last 10. Vanderbilt didn’t have any issues in its opening round matches against Alabama State and Clemson while Miami cruised past LIU Brooklyn 4-0 before winning a close 4-3 match over UCF. For Miami to have any chance of pulling the upset they must find a way to win the doubles point because Vanderbilt will be favored on just about every court in singles. I’m going to take Vanderbilt in doubles and Rosca, Meyer, and Dvorak in singles to send the Dores back to the...
by Bobby Knight | May 14, 2018 | Blog
For the most part Sunday was a pretty ho-hum day, compared to the excitement and drama from the previous two days, but it all changed late in the evening (well past midnight my time) when No. 38 Ole Miss stunned No. 4 Stanford 4-3. Stanford entered the match as a heavy favorite, was undefeated at home, and since the field had been expanded to 64 teams in 1999 there had never been a No. 4 seed that had failed to advance to the Sweet 16 but Ole Miss didn’t care about any of that. Stanford had won the doubles point in 20 of its 25 matches and after winning 6-3 at No. 2 it looked like they might make it 21 of 26. However Ole Miss’s Fabian...
by Bobby Knight | May 13, 2018 | Blog
Singles/Doubles draws are available at Wake’s NCAA Tournament Hub Live Scoring Full Results Below – For Easier Viewing Click Here
by Bobby Knight | May 13, 2018 | Blog
We knew it was coming but we just didn’t know where and when it’d happen. I’m of course referring to a seeded team going down before the Sweet 16 which after yesterday has now occurred every year on the men’s side since the field was expanded in 1999 and in 19 of the last 20 years on the women’s side. We’ll start with the women which wrapped up all 16 regionals on Saturday. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane had been knocking on the door for the last several years but after 11 straight NCAA appearances that ended in the first or second round they busted through to the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history with a 4-2 win...
by Bobby Knight | May 11, 2018 | Blog
Friday was a jammed packed day of college tennis with 46 NCAA Tournament matches taking place. The women took center stage with all 16 regionals in action while 7 of the 16 men’s regional kicked off as well. All 23 of the seeded teams won 4-0 except for the Oklahoma State women who defeated UMKC 4-1. There were a slew of great women’s matches with UCF, Kansas State, Texas A&M, Illinois, Kansas, Baylor, and Winthrop winning by 4-3 scores while Mississippi State, Virginia, Wake Forest, Tulsa, and Oregon won by a 4-2 score. The three teams that won by 4-1 scores were Wichita State, Clemson, and the aforementioned Oklahoma State. The higher ranked...
by Bobby Knight | May 10, 2018 | Blog
The NCAA Tournament is now just 1 day away with all 16 women’s sites starting on Friday and finishing on Saturday. All 16 sites will have live scoring and 12 will have streaming video – check my live scoring page for links. The Power 5 conferences accounted for 35 (55%) of the 64 bids with the SEC putting 11 teams in, the ACC with 10, the Big XII with 6, and the Pac-12 and Big Ten with 4 each. The only other conferences to put multiple teams in were the American at 3 and Conference USA at 2. UCLA and Stanford will be appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the 37th year in a row, which is every year since the team format was started in 1982,...
by Bobby Knight | May 9, 2018 | Blog
I gave you plenty of numbers to look over yesterday now its time for more with all the first and second round capsules listed below. Six of the 32 first round matches will be rematches from the regular season with North Carolina, Columbia, USC, and Michigan expected to have repeat performances while South Carolina and Texas Tech will have to work hard to repeat their earlier wins. All the regional hosts should win their openers pretty comfortably with TCU and USC the only ones that might yield a point with the emphasis on might. Almost all the early matches should be competitive with plenty of 4-2 and 4-3 scores expected. Past history tells us that the...
by Bobby Knight | May 8, 2018 | Blog
We are just days away from the start of this year’s NCAA Tournament with seven sites firing up on Friday while the other nine begin play on Saturday. 15 of the 16 host sites will have live scoring (USC has video with scores on it but no actual scoring page) and at least 9 will have streaming video – check my live scoring page to see who is doing what. The Power 5 conferences accounted for 36 (56%) of the 64 bids with the SEC putting 10 teams in, the ACC with 9, the Pac-12 with 7, the Big XII with all 6 of its teams, and the Big Ten with 4. The only other conferences to put multiple teams in were the Ivy League at 3 and the American at 2. UCLA...
by Bobby Knight | May 7, 2018 | Blog
This year the very successful Northwestern University womens tennis program looked to do little and started the season unranked. Head coach Claire Pollard and her Wildcats had won Big Ten titles from 1999-2014 without interruption, 16 consecutive seasons, 16 consecutive Big Ten conference or tournament titles. With three highly-ranked Big Ten rivals this might have been Pollard’s first class to leave NU without a conference trophy. Unranked at the start of the season they proceeded to knock off three top seven teams (Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Illinois) in a two-week window and then finished the regular season by winning 16 of their final 17,...
by Bobby Knight | May 3, 2018 | Blog
The NCAA released the singles and doubles selections for the upcoming NCAA Championships and as expected the field was full of players from the Power 5 Conferences. 11 of the 64 men’s singles selections came from outside of the Power 5 but only 1 of those came via an at-large with the rest being automatic qualifiers. Out of the 64 women’s singles selections there were 15 from outside of the Power 5 with 4 from the West Coast Conference picking up at-large bids. You can see the full list of selections down below plus the NCAA’s releases are linked here (men/women).The men’s top singles seed is UCLA’s Martin Redlicki while...
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