AAC Tennis

[chris-swede]

AAC Tennis
a new league and some interesting teams, but only a little league, they not even schedule all teams in regular season, but here are also travel reasons, 2 teams are in texas, 2 in florida, 2 in the border of Tennessee/Kentucky

1) Memphis is allways finding a good niche in between all the SEC-teams, can recruit some good people, they and Lville are the top of the league

2) Louisville, i put them only on 2, they ve struggled a little bit more vs lower teams, also they gave Oklahoma a good fight

3) USF, they ve a good team, Benneweis Pramming and Cid are talented, they even beat Texas Tech , the recent loss to San Diego hurts

4) UCF, also decent team, their close win vs Miami and their easy loss vs indiana scares me a little bit

5) SMU; they ve a real downyear, the good years are over, they are chanceless vs ranked teams, even in the lower H-E-B-Tournament they lost 2 matches. They had good teams in the past, but something changed. Johan Brunstrom was outstanding in the past.

6) Temple, i did not even know there is a team...i do not even know their german players....are they even giving scholarships?

 

[Clemson_tennis]

UCF was upset by Tulane. Nice win for the Green Wave

 

[TopDawg]

Louisville will be in the ACC next year too.

 

[chris-swede]

bad loss for USF..hmm will the aac even survive? are there coming teams to the aac?

 

[ctoner28]

Uconn

Watch out for UCONN in upcoming years. Heard they are getting scholarships in upcoming years and are lead by up and coming coach with great potential

 

[TopDawg]

Memphis takes the dubs point over South Florida and is up an early break on a few singles courts.

 

[TopDawg]

Memphis up 2-1 and they lead 4-1 in the 3rd at 4 and 3-0 in the 3rd at 6.

 

[andfor]

Memphis up 2-1 and they lead 4-1 in the 3rd at 4 and 3-0 in the 3rd at 6.

Memphis wins 4-3. Won dubs 2-1. Had match point on #2 but lost it. Match points down in the breaker at #1, came back and won. Memphis clinched with wins at 2,3 and 4 to go up 4-1 before they played out and lost 1 and 6 in the 3rd sets. USF is a good team and very young. Cid is a solid #1 who handles pace and passes well. Watch out for Sasha Gozun over the next few years, big kid, bigger game. Memphis impressive and composed today under tough pressure.

 

[TopDawg]

Interesting about the seeding for the conference tournament:

"The Tigers now wait to see if the win over USF and this weekend's earlier win over UCF is enough to vault the Tigers over the Bulls in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. Tournament seeding for the American Athletic Conference championships is based solely on the ITA rankings, so Memphis could still be the two seed for next weekend's tournament despite today's 4-3 win over USF. With seven conference teams sponsoring men's tennis, the tournament's No. 1 seed gets a first round by and starts play in the semifinals on Saturday. The No. 2 seed will open in play on Friday. Memphis won the conference championship (as a member of Conference USA) last season as the No. 2 seed in the tournament"

So based off this Memphis will be the #1 seed, South Florida #2, Louisville #3, Central Florida #4, SMU #5, Temple #6, UConn #7.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

Louisville only played Memphis out of those teams. How is this a conference?

 

[TopDawg]

The Atlantic 10 was the same way - VCU played 1 conference match and it was against Richmond

 

[andfor]

Interesting about the seeding for the conference tournament:

"The Tigers now wait to see if the win over USF and this weekend's earlier win over UCF is enough to vault the Tigers over the Bulls in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings. Tournament seeding for the American Athletic Conference championships is based solely on the ITA rankings, so Memphis could still be the two seed for next weekend's tournament despite today's 4-3 win over USF. With seven conference teams sponsoring men's tennis, the tournament's No. 1 seed gets a first round by and starts play in the semifinals on Saturday. The No. 2 seed will open in play on Friday. Memphis won the conference championship (as a member of Conference USA) last season as the No. 2 seed in the tournament"

So based off this Memphis will be the #1 seed, South Florida #2, Louisville #3, Central Florida #4, SMU #5, Temple #6, UConn #7.

I find it hard to imagine how the rankings would not move Memphis ahead of USF .

Louisville only played Memphis out of those teams. How is this a conference?

Many conferences don't have a mandatory conference schedule. Geographically, does it really make sense for all the East coast teams to have to play home and home with SMU?

 

[chris-swede]

Memphis was one place behind USF in the rankings, should make it now.

 

[andfor]

Memphis is confirmed today as the top seed for the Men's conf tournament this weekend.

 

[chris-swede]

Memphis is confirmed today as the top seed for the Men's conf tournament this weekend.

without new rankings???

 

[andfor]

without new rankings???

Yes. Both men and woman seedlings released yesterday.

 

[TopDawg]

South Florida and Memphis tied at 2. Looks like it'll come down to a 3rd set on 2 to decide it.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

South Florida and Memphis tied at 2. Looks like it'll come down to a 3rd set on 2 to decide it.

the live stats wasn't working for me. Where are the scores?

 

[TopDawg]

the live stats wasn't working for me. Where are the scores?

The original link they had was wrong - the one I posted is right now. Match tied 3-3

1. Cid (USF) def. Glennon (MEM) 6-1 6-4
2. Pramming (USF) vs. Salisbury (MEM) 4-6 6-4
3. Gozun (USF) def. Grimal (MEM) 7-6 7-6
4. O'Leary (MEM) def. Kalyuzhnyy (USF) 6-3 7-5
5. Chadwell (MEM) def. Gonzalez-Muniz (USF) 0-6 6-2 6-2
6. Sabogal (USF) def. O'Hare (MEM) 6-3 6-4

 

[Clemson_tennis]

USF gets the title. What a great season for them

 

[chris-swede]

Great for them. They could be dangerous in ncaas

 

[andfor]

USF gets the title. What a great season for them

I was there yesterday and watched USF win the title over Memphis. Also watched the match from the previous Sunday when Memphis beat USF. Couldn't have two more evenly matched teams. Both last week and this weeks match could have gone either way. More so yesterday's match. Same lineups two weeks in a row. USF was a little better yesterday. Memphis won a couple of matches they lost last week, #5 singles and #2 doubles. USF won a couple of matches they lost last week #2 and #3 singles, that was the difference.

Both teams will be a very strong #2 seed.

Odd detail of the AAC weekend (to me anyway) is that supposedly USF stayed in Memphis the entire week after they played UofM last Sunday.

 

[epaige]

Watch out for UCONN in upcoming years. Heard they are getting scholarships in upcoming years and are lead by up and coming coach with great potential

Need a pseudonym, Chris.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

Tulane has really fallen off. From a top 30 team to losing 6-1 to UAB. Tbf, head coach Mark Booras did have a serious health scare and had to get a heart transplant. So thankfully he is alright now more than anything. Hopefully they can get back to being a solid program soon.

 

[andfor]

Tulane has really fallen off. From a top 30 team to losing 6-1 to UAB. Tbf, head coach Mark Booras did have a serious health scare and had to get a heart transplant. So thankfully he is alright now more than anything. Hopefully they can get back to being a solid program soon.

Thankfully coach Booras health appears to be recovering well. Looks like they also have a new assistant coach who come on last summer. Their lineup might have only 2 seniors/starters from last years team. I got to believe they will bounce back soon.

 

[asdad1109]

Tulane falloff is real but surprising. I didn't think they were losing much but i guess they did. Tough when you have notorious cheaters like Mercer playing in the lineup. Bad karma.

 

[Clemson_tennis]

Good American final between Rice and Memphis. Both need to win to get into the tournament

 

[andfor]

Good American final between Rice and Memphis. Both need to win to get into the tournament

Great AAC championship tourney win for the Memphis women! 2nd championship in 3 years. Finishing the year 10-13 they had to win the tournament to get into the NCAA's. Among the larger non-P4 schools, it's really a remarkable win given their #6 seed and regular season play which was marked with up and down play. Well done to the players and coaches!

The Memphis Men finish the AAC tournament as runner's up 2nd time in two years. This year Rice got them in the finals after Memphis beat them in the regular season. Going into the tournament the favorite the last two years, this one stings again. Although Memphis beat Rice in the regular season, losing a couple of close singles matches they narrowly won in the regular season proved to be the difference for Rice yesterday. Hats off to Rice.

Overall the Memphis Men had an excellent year. Despite having a starter from last year out this season recovering from ACL surgery, and another starter coming back mid-season from a broken finger, they pushed through some late season adversity and posted a gutsy run to the conference finals. At this time I have to guess they are a bubble team or maybe just on the outside looking in. I'm afraid to hear what the projections are for their post season selection possibilities.