ITA National Indoor Kickoff Weekend

[The Dawgs]

[quote=Clemson_tennis;7167097]Dawgs better gear up for Clemson when we come rolling in next Thursday.[/QUOT

Be serious! Where do you think you will get wins from. I would like to hear that.

[TopDawg]

Vandy blowing out Minnesota though Minnesota's #1 didn't play. Columbia taking it to Louisville leading 3-0.

[woodrow1029]

Weather not looking good at all in Palo Alto.

[ClarkC]

Originally Posted by andfor

The pre-season and first ranking period are horrible this year. They're so bad it will take another 3 or 4 rankings to sort it all out.

The early ranking are polls. After the NTI finishes in a few weeks, they convert to the computer rankings. There is no reason for the polls to take a long time to sort out, other than inertia and ignorance on the part of the voters.

[Clemson_tennis]

Originally Posted by ClarkC

The early ranking are polls. After the NTI finishes in a few weeks, they convert to the computer rankings. There is no reason for the polls to take a long time to sort out, other than inertia and ignorance on the part of the voters.

They just copy the rankings of last year with minor changes when results happen. I'm not sure they really follow college tennis.

[Clemson_tennis]

[quote=The Dawgs;7167139]

Originally Posted by Clemson_tennis

Dawgs better gear up for Clemson when we come rolling in next Thursday.[/QUOT

Be serious! Where do you think you will get wins from. I would like to hear that.

We are no worse than VCU and Vanderbilt. Austin Ansari who plays 6/7 for us straight setted Rhys Johnson in the fall. I know one result doesn't mean much but its something.

We can win doubles. The Maden brothers are near unbeatable at the moment.

Meza and Pieters have had 3 set battles in the past, Meza can win at 3 if he is on.

Dom Maden can hang with Wagland at 4. As can Rigsby at 5 with Smith.
Wibowo is a wild-card and can definitely win at 6 if he is playing well.

The only one I am completely conceding is Harrington at 2.

Clemson is better this year than last and Georgia isn't as good as last year. I think it will be a good match. It will definitely test us for sure.

[TopDawg]

Harvard takes doubles over Notre Dame but ND takes 4 1st sets.
Columbia beat Louisville 4-1. Ivy League not lying down.

[TopDawg]

Auburn take dubs point over Indiana and also snags 4 1st sets.

[TopDawg]

Originally Posted by woodrow1029

Weather not looking good at all in Palo Alto.

Looks like it's cleared up. I see they are warming up. They're playing on the other side of the bay too Boise St/Santa Clara starting on schedule.

[Clemson_tennis]

Originally Posted by TopDawg

Lower ranked teams that I think win today: Notre Dame, Drake, BYU, Michigan, Texas, and Tennessee. In the consolation matches I'll go with San Diego St, Michigan St, and Boise St.

Georgia better be ready today because VCU is going to be tough

I agree with all of those except for Drake. I think FSU will beat Drake rather handily.

[Clemson_tennis]

Harvard digs it out with a late surge at #5. Mahlangu was down 4-5 and won the last 3 games to clinch it for the Crimson.

[TopDawg]

Mahlangu was down at least 3-0 in that 3rd set and it might have been 4-0 before coming back.

[Kirijax]

College tennis hasn't figured it out yet. All the rules changes, scoring changes, format changes, point penalty changes won't do a bit of good until they figure out how to put up a proper, working, scoring system and video on the Internet.

[Clemson_tennis]

Kecki #3 for Santa Clara going with the long pants!

[socaltennnis]

Glad to see kecki playing college tennis after graduating from usc last year. He's doing an mba program now at Santa Clara.

[jaggy]

Sadly Indiana looks very over ranked and should drop

[andfor]

Was one of the teams I was thinking of but did not want to name names before the first couple matches. My improssion was based off watching them at the ITA Indoor last fall. They'll still have a good year.

[Kirijax]

Really impressed by the scoreboard presented by Ohio State.

Linkhttp://streamingtennis.com/index.php/ohiostate

[TopDawg]

Oklahoma blowing out Memphis- I thought that'd be a little closer

[woodrow1029]

Originally Posted by TopDawg

Looks like it's cleared up. I see they are warming up. They're playing on the other side of the bay too Boise St/Santa Clara starting on schedule.

Yeah driving in to PA looked bad this morning. Sun is out, but it's COLD here. I'm here umpiring this weekend.