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After winning the doubles point and 3 first sets so far, the rain has come! Looks like the rest of the match will be indoors.

Duke and NC State are actually playing outdoors right now. Literally so random.

Texas faces UNC tomorrow. UNC beat Pepperdine 4-3 after Pepperdine's number 4 player got injured in doubles, meaning 5-7 had to move up a line. The Good News: Peyton's not facing Navarro tomorrow. And hopefully Peyton got her one bad match out of the way just like last year. The Bad News: UNC's middle lineup is a lot stronger than Virginia. And there's >80% chance of rain tomorrow, so likely indoors against the indoor champions for the past three (or is it four?) years.

Yes Stearns and Navarro should be exciting. Collins at 2 will also be in a tight battle. 3-6 people can argue that Texas are slight favorites. Interesting to see line 6 Ziodato vs. Ovrootsky- Ziodato was at Baylor last year and didn't make a lineup, transfers to a stronger team, and has had a fantastic season. Of note, OU is without their line 3 player Chanta, which is a huge blow. Chanta is with the Thai national team at the Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam. Just won team gold but has the individual competitions this week, likely won't make it back in time. Huge blow to OU and I think the OU vs. A&M match has A&M as a slight favorite.

Michigan played today outdoors. So weather permitting, this should not be an indoor match.

Echo pretty much what was said above; for the minority non revenue generating sports, the draw is not going to be balanced with Texas potential second round being tougher than it has to be. That said I think Texas' bottom of the lineup is stronger and will be more favored than against Michigan. Auburn, Virginia and Oklahoma State are the other seeds on this side and I agree that OU's path is much tougher when that is factored in. As a side note, I'm pretty sure all matches at NCAA's have to be outdoors (weather permitting). I know the Big 10 tournament was played indoors last week. A&M getting the seventh seed was expected. In my opinion, the ITA formula rewards one good win over two tough losses. The best out of conference win for A&M was USC. Only loss was against Cal. And that was it- did not play any of the ACC or Big 12 contenders. Which is how Texas, OU, UNC, NC State, Virginia, and Duke are higher ranked-> they keep playing themselves and beating each other.

Historically the NCAA seeds are based on the computer rankings. If that's the case, UNC is still number one. Texas will be around 4-5. Aggies would be number 7 as they don't have a single top 10 win. If the computer rankings hold, OU will have the roughest draw as the two seed as they'd face Stanford (#15) in the Sweet 16 and then A&M in the Elite Eight. This is my exact quote from last year "I'd rate Texas as having a 20-30% chance of beating UNC. Things that have to happen are Peyton needs to get hot during NCAAs and Joffe has to decide between Labrana and Rapolu at 6. " And those things did happen- Peyton went on a tear the last three team matches at NCAA's and Joffe was able to manage the line 6 spot (4-1 record splitting Labrana and Rapolu). I actually think there's no clear cut favorite this year compared to last year's UNC. Last year I'd say there were 3 or 4 times capable of winning. This year I would say there are 7-8 teams in the hunt. Key thing for Texas this year is Charlotte needs to find her freshmen year groove.

lolz- this time I don't; wasn't at the match, been spending much of the week at the ATP tournament in Houston Hope it's not vertebral stress fractures, I know that he's struggled with those in the past

Really lucky to have him in the lineup at all; he can only slice on his backhand due to his left wrist injury. The fact that he has won the last 7 of his completed matches (after starting 2-4) with only half his shots shows how good of a player he is

Unfortunately Texas didn't get the diving points they usually get. Scoggin does a great job for the diving team. The women's diving team scored the most points at the national championships compared to other teams. Just not the year for the men's diving team...Windle's legal issues, the national Canadian team member not enrolling, etc.

Looks like Berque heard some rumblings...UTRGV match after Tech. Pretty sure that doubleheader was not there earlier in the season.

Cowgirls lost a heartbreaker to UCF today 4-3. UCF won 3 3rd set matches that included an 8-6 score in the tiebreaker.

Second place finish! Pretty efficient result, I think I saw somewhere that Texas had the fewest number of qualified swimmers for a top 10 team.

Most likely a 2nd place finish with Florida being the champs

Props to Jones, Bizimana, and Carroza: all ran above their seeded times in their individual events and on the Distance Medley Relay

Texas beats NC A&T and wins its first ever Men's Indoor Championships!

On a verge of a National Championships- all down to the 4x400. Need to hold off the NC A&T sprinters.

Cracked Racquets podcast did a number of interview pre season with some college head coaches. Tech coach said that their middle part of the lineup would be the weakest. True to form, Texas had some convincing victories. Next up is TCU. Was shut out to Baylor yesterday.

My understanding was that the .500 requirement was temporarily waived for the 2021 season. This was due to teams having limited traveling capabilities for a full non conference schedule. I have not seen the requirement waived for this season yet (last year I believe it was waived mid season). From what I've heard a lot of the Power 5 coaches want that requirement to be removed.

Really needed a good road win. Texas was flirting with the .500 rule and the schedule does not get any easier.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/support-for-ukraine-at-capitol-amid-concerns-of-pushback-targeting-russian-immigrants Sabina in the news not for tennis stuff but for her homeland.

What the announcer meant was it had to be 0.4 seconds faster than the previous Norwegian male time. Tiebreakers are combine fastest men and women's time. Female Norwegian was faster than US time (24.32 vs 24.72). Previous round the male Norwegian skier was 24.02. Last American was 24.04. Thus Norway won.

Gu added a 540 spin on her second run. Second run was plainly better than her first. No way was Sharpe better. She missed a lot of her grabs. If you look at the replays, you see Sharpe repeated opening and closing her hands trying to reach her skis.

Actually I think Texas will be playing OU on the road this year

Still a solid weekend. Two top 10 wins. Peyton showed she hasn't lost a step from last season. Freshmen are battling hard. Just need Charlotte to get out of her funk.