The eighth-ranked and seventh-seeded Baylor men’s tennis team punched its ticket to the 2010 NCAA Championship round of 16 with a 4-0 shutout of No. 33 Rice (15-11) on Sunday afternoon at the Baylor Tennis Center.
“I really think as a group we are playing our best tennis right now,” head coach Matt Knoll said. “I [...]
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Baylor eliminates Rice, 4-0
Texas teams and the NCAAs
Ed. Note – I stole this from work. I wrote it this morning for my real job at USTA Texas.
Wayne Bryan, father of the world’s top-ranked doubles team, says there are two good things that happen when you take a kid to a college tennis match: they fall in love with tennis as a team [...]
Where will the men be heading if Boise State is last in?
Now I have done the calculations for the men’s side too. There are only 31 conferences for the men, as the Great West does not have a men’s division. Here’s the list of conference champions:
Conference
Team
Rank
ACC
Virginia
1
SEC
Tennessee
2
Big 12
Texas
3
Big 10
Ohio State
4
Pac 10
USC
5
Big East
Louisville
15
West Coast
Pepperdine
21
CUSA
Rice
33
WAC
Hawai’i
35
Ivy
Columbia
44
America East
Binghampton
47
Mountain West
TCU
51
Big West
UC Irvine
53
Sun Belt
Troy
56
Atlantic Sun
ETSU
66
Colonial Athletic
VCU
71
Horizon
Cleveland State
Ohio Valley
Eastern Kentucky
Metro Atlantic
Marist
Patriot
Navy
Summit
Oral Roberts
Southwestern
Prairie View A&M
Northeast
Quinnipiac
Big [...]
Owls end Tulsa’s reign, capture C-USA men’s title; Tachibana clinches
Ron Smarr’s Rice Owls ended four years of frustration as a pair of sophomores battled back to win three-set matches to give Rice the Conference USA Men’s Tennis title with a 4-3 win over Tulsa at Jake Hess Tennis stadium before a raucous, supportive crowd.
Sam Garforth-Bles and Isamu Tachibana delivered the clinching points, with [...]
It’ll be Rice v. Tulsa, again
The Rice Owls will look to add a new ending to a familiar script when they meet Tulsa for the Conference USA Men’s Championship at 12 noon on Sunday at Jake Hess Tennis Stadium. This is the fifth consecutive year that the two schools have met to decide the conference title, with the Golden [...]
Rice women fall short at Tulsa
The 47th ranked Rice Owls fell short in their quest to reach the title match of the Conference USA Women’s Tennis Championships, falling to the host Tulsa Golden Hurricane, 4-2 at the Case Tennis Center in Tulsa on Saturday afternoon.
“Today was a disappointing loss. It was unfortunate that we weren’t able to pull out that [...]
Rice men blank Southern Miss
Ron Smarr’s Rice Owls opened play in the 2010 Conference USA Men’ Tennis Championship with a 4-0 blanking of Southern Miss at Jake Hess Tennis Stadium on Friday afternoon. The Owls advanced to the semifinals where they will meet the winner of the UCF/East Carolina match that began early Friday evening. That semifinal match [...]
Rice women advance to semis with 4-0 win over Tulane
The 47th ranked Rice Owls reached their eighth consecutive conference championship semifinal round with a 4-0 win over Tulane in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Conference USA Women’s Tennis Championships at the Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday.
“This was a very solid start to the tournament,” Owls’ head coach Elizabeth Schmidt said. “We [...]
Mid-April National Rankings
I have updated the latest rankings and cleaned up a bunch of the data that I had incorrect one way or another. The same characters are up top… here are the top-10’s.
TexasCollegeTennis.com Men’s Team National Rankings
RK
TEAM
W
L
1
University of Virginia
32
1
2
University of Tennessee
23
1
3
Ohio State University
27
1
4
University of Texas
19
2
5
University of Florida
17
3
6
University of Southern California
19
3
7
University of Georgia
17
6
8
Stanford University
18
5
9
Baylor University
16
5
10
University of Kentucky
21
7
LINK [...]
Rice’s Tachibana, Chao and Hänle among C-USA honorees
Rice sophomore Isamu Tachibana, senior Julie Chao and junior Rebekka Hänle have been named to the 2010 Conference USA Tennis All–Academic Team, as announced on Monday by the conference office. The team is determined in a vote by the league’s Sports Information Directors for Men’s and Women’s Tennis.
Tachibana is a two-time recipient of the [...]
