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Always not fun to lose but the team put on a solid season. I'd grade the season a solid B+. With Kempenaers-Pocz coming next year, Texas will be in the thick of it again next year.

Quick look at the South Carolina lineup shows that their weakest areas is the lower part Texas also fortunate to have the early start time Thursday

As I had guessed, Charlotte and Sabina had the tougher matches. Pretty cool to see Taisiya win against her old team (her opponent though wasn't on the team last year after transferring from San Diego State, also started her college career at OK State where she beat Peyton Stearns). Now it's on against UNC. Pretty tall task against the number 1 but UNC has to be one of the biggest underachievers in any NCAA sport. Since 2010, they've finished in the top 5 except for one year where they finished 8th. During that time span, they've won 6 indoor titles but have never won at the NCAAs and only ever been in the finals. Seems like there's a big mental block even though this may be their year.....because as always in NCAA tennis, there may be some stacking going on 😈. Crawley is play line 2 despite being ranked number one and only having two losses on the year. UNC also tried putting Tanguilig at 4 and Forbes at 3 even though Tanguilig never played at 4 during the season- enough coaches filed a protest and UNC was fined and had to fix that part of the lineup. There's a whole twitter discussion.

Looks like the rain ends around 3 only to pick up again 3 hours later. Pretty neutral about going indoors. Pepperdine's 2 of 3 losses were indoors and there aren't that many indoor courts in Southern California. Charlotte and Sabina are going to have probably the toughest matches. Sabina plays against Janice Tjen (lot of people think she should be playing at 1). Charlotte is playing Savannah Broadus who is undefeated this dual season. Broadus is from Texas, remember hearing about what a talent (both as a tennis player and overall athlete) during her junior years.

Congrats to Bianca...but it's going to be a tough job to get out of the SEC cellar.

Yeah that's complete b*****t. Joffe has won 5 out of the 6 last conference championships (regular and tournament) but doubt Joffe is losing sleep over this. Texas is actually shaping up to host the Sweet 16 thanks to USC and Washington having strong conference tournament and San Diego not making it to the finals of the West Coast Conference (Pepperdine will not gain any points from their conference tournament). Only thing that can stand in the way of hosting the Sweet 16 is if Ohio State makes a run and wins the Big 10 tournament.

Sorry to burst that bubble...

Just to let y'all know how tough Texas' schedule was: all but one team (UCF) are likely to qualify for the NCAA tournament Texas or TCU likely to share SMU, UTSA, and A&M Corpus Christi in their draws. Real question is how stingy the NCAA committee will be- will they send A&M to TCU or Texas to save transportation cost despite A&M being in the top 20?

Right now SMU is ranked 32 so would be a 'low' 2 seed. Can see the NCAA committee easily sending them to College Station as A&M will be the second national seed. Also Baylor will more than certainly be sent to College Station too if they make the tournament. A&M Corpus Christi will be the four seed in either College Station or Austin. SEC will have 8-9 teams in the tournament, so good odds one of LSU, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, or Auburn gets sent to Austin. If Texas makes it to the round of 16, opponent will be one of Stanford, Pepperdine, or Duke. Hoping not Stanford- will depend on the Big 10 and West Coast Conference tournaments this weekend.

Committee always seems to go straight off the computer rankings (unless the adjacent team has the winning H2H). Texas should mathematically keep the top position in the computer rankings.

Joffe better win Coach of the Year- replacing half your team is no easy feat. He's also not won the award since 2018! Argument could be made for Khirin to win both Freshmen and Player of the Year

Beginning to think Texas was going to choke; it was either the 6th or 7th match point at line 1 Really windy, will be interesting to see how much movement there'll be on Tsaiya's serve

Spizziri absolutely smoked his returns (off the first serve too!) in that last game

I think you did

Wow......

Zein posted about 'early retirement' so I guess Texas is down to six scholarship players Baylor currently on the bubble for the NCAAs. Have to wonder how warm the seat is for the BU coach. Baylor's domination seems like eons ago and are now fighting to stay in the upper half of the league. Significant drop off.

TCU played without their top player today.

WTA 250 is not like ATP 250 (where the winner gets 250 points). WTA 250 winners get 280 points and runner ups get 180 points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTA_250_tournaments

Schnaider lost against Duke yesterday. Maybe the switch from clay to hard courts? Much to play for tomorrow- a loss would probably ruin any chance of hosting a Round of 16 match

Singles or doubles? Glasspool for doubles in January this year Probably Vladimíra Uhlířová for women's doubles No clue about singles for either main tours- unless you count Jill Craybas (played at Texas for one year before transferring to Florida). Kevin Curren was winning titles in the 80s. Also Lulu Sun is at a career high ranking 226. Should be borderline to get into most Grand Slam qualifying tournaments. Unfortunately she'll be out for several months after tearing ligaments at her last tournament.

lols she just won the first round at the Charleston Open against top 60 Alycia Parks She should be available to play Texas next Monday: no WTA tournaments due to Fed Cup and she's not on any entry lists for the ITF tournaments

Very revealing interview by Zeynalova. Some highlights: -Was dead set on going pro but her mom took over her email and started emailing coaches on her behalf. -Due to starting the recruiting process so late, she talked with 6 schools (including Georgia and NC State) and only had 3 offers. Said she got lucky with Texas as someone in the 2021 team (I'm guessing Lulu?) turned pro and a spot opened up for her three months before starting college. -Chose Austin for various reasons- cool town with Apple and Tesla moving to the area (lol from an Austinite perspective I remember a lot of locals groaned about this), UT just won the national championship -Mentioned about the stress of the war at home -Due to various other things, developed an eating disorder during the season last year in the midst of a dominating freshmen year. -Etc.

Texas completed the road trip with a convincing 4-0 win over Tech. Just two matches remaining: non-conference NC State and Baylor for Senior Day and chance to win at least a share of the regular season conference championship. OU just beat ISU today. So there's now three teams in the conference at the top with one loss.

Iowa State wins the doubles point Wind is also vicious in Stillwater right now

Also Iowa State is playing Oklahoma State right now...