Fall 2008 Rankings

[NorthernPride]

D3Tennis,
With regionals and nationals completed, what do you believe the rankings for singles and doubles should be?
Does this change any of your preseason team rankings?
I am curious to hear from everybody and get this site running again.

[d3tennis]

I am not sure that it is possible to do national rankings just yet. I will do a breakdown of every regional and the small college nationals in the next week. Then i will post rankings. ITA rankings should be coming out at the begiining of November. Should be interesting. If anyone can give me some insight from a particular regional that would be helpful...

[tennis9]

how about dual matches this fall? were there any noteworthy results?

[enthusiast]

How about Amherst's impressive string of matches this fall?

Did anyone get the chance to see Piskacek play?

Looks like Gustavus will find a way of being good yet again this year...

[pdb1991]

i saw piskacek play at regionals....he is obviously a very good player with a very clean game, but he is still a little rusty from having taken 2 and a half years off

[jameybaxter]

Never discount a good player just because they are "rusty".  I have seen a few guys who came back to play a DOMINANT level in both d2 and d3 who had not played a competitive match in a few years.  They both went on to be dominant in their conferences.  In fact, one was the player of the year in his conf and hadn't played a match in 3 years. 

[British10s]

New England, West, and Central Regions will be the toughest.  Gustavus will be good again, but not sure they will be close to Wash U, Kenyon, or even Chicago.  Chicago needs to come through this year.  They should have done better the last 2 years.  Amherst looks like the real deal and didn't even play full strength against the Hopkins, Carnegie, and Kenyon teams.  CMS and Santa Cruz will battle it out for their region.  Emory will have a cake walk. I hope the NCAA committee sends them someone in the spring.

[tennisbrah]

who from amherst was missing?

[MarkyMark]

Amherst also did a really terrific job of stacking in the fall.  Their #2 Moritz Koenig has managed to lose about every match 2,2 while also playing #6 for them last year.  There is no way they can keep that up. 

[jameybaxter]

Amherst also did a really terrific job of stacking in the fall.  Their #2 Moritz Koenig has managed to lose about every match 2,2 while also playing #6 for them last year.  There is no way they can keep that up. 

STACKING in the fall.....that is why I LOVE COLLEGE TENNIS!

Seriously - what other sport allows you to take advantage of obvious opportunities to "cheat"?  That is right, college tennis! 

Kudos - MarkyMark is the winner of the "I am the first person to mention stacking on the forum" award!

HA HA HA

[tplayer12]

After having seen Moritz play in Kenyon i don't think its that much of a stack. I've seen him play: big serve, good volleys.

I'll be the first one to call out a stack but despite being streaky the kid can play.

Remember big serves go a long way.

[jameybaxter]

National:
Team Rankings:
1.Washington U. in St. Louis
2.Emory
3.Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
4.UC Santa Cruz
5.Middlebury
6.Williams
7.Amherst
8.Kenyon
9.Gustavus
10.Mary Washington
11.Bowdoin
12.Trinity (TX)
13.Redlands
14.Trinity (CT)
15.Johns Hopkins
16.Carnegie Mellon
17.The College of New Jersey
18.DePauw
19.Washinton and Lee
20.Whitman
21.UT-Tyler
22.Bates
23.Salisbury
24.Christopher Newport
25.U. of Chicago
26.Denison
27.Cal Lutheran
28.Kalamazoo
29.Carleton
30.Pomona-Pitzer
30.Hardin-Simmons


West
Team Rankings
 1. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges
 2. UC Santa Cruz
 3. Trinity University (TX)
 4. Univ. of Redlands
 5. Whitman 
 6. University of Texas-Tyler
 7. Cal Lutheran University
 8. Hardin-Simmons University
 8. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
 10. Pacific Lutheran University
 11. Linfield College
 12. Occidental College
 13. Whitworth College
 13. Willamette University
 15. University of Texas-Dallas


Central
Team Rankings
1  Washington University (MO)
2  Kenyon College
3  Gustavus Adolphus College
4  DePauw University
5  University of Chicago
6  Denison University
7  Kalamazoo
8  Carleton College
9  UW-Whitewater
10 Calvin College
11 Luther College
12 Grinnell College
13 Coe College
14 Wheaton(IL)
15 Case Western
16 Carthage College
17 Albion
18 Allegheny
19 Wabash
20 Hope College
21 UW-Eau Claire
22 UW-LaCrosse
23 Ohio Northern
24 Baldwin-Wallace
25 Transylvania


Atlantic South
Team Rankings
1 Emory University
2 University of Mary Washington
3 Johns Hopkins University
4 Carnegie Mellon University
5 Washington and Lee University
6 Salisbury University
7 Christopher Newport University
8 University of the South
9 Rhodes College
10 Birmingham-Southern College
11 Haverford College
12 Swarthmore College
13 Hampden-Sydney College
14 Washington College
15 Mississippi College
16 Oglethorpe University


Northeast
Team Rankings           
1    Middlebury College           
2    Williams College           
3    Amherst College           
4    Bowdoin College           
5    Trinity College           
6    Bates College           
7    The College of New Jersey           
8    Colby College             
9    Tufts University           
10   Skidmore College           
11   V***ar College           
12   M***achusetts Institute of Technology           
13   New York University           
14   Brandeis University           
15   Wesleyan University 

[tennisscout]

tplayer12 is moritz probably.

and it is a stack.  how can justify austin chafetz playing behind koenig...go down the lineup, questions abound. 

[MarkyMark]

A big serve and good volleys do go a long way but not when you miss every other ball and can't make a return.  Go on collegetennisonline and it's intriguing that he played 6 last year and still lost consistently.