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Ohio State Men's Tennis (2014/2019/2024 ITA Indoor National Champs, 17 Straight B1G Titles)

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OSU_D/;2115665; said:
How does 10-7 happen? I thought it was win by two after you got to 6-6?


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When the OSU vs. UNC team match was decided, the agreed upon rules for settling an individual competition tied at one set apiece, defaulted to a third set super tie breaker. It is also sometimes called a match tie breaker.

The super tiebreaker is played to 10 points, instead of seven, and is won when one player reaches a score of 10 with at least a two-point margin. The super tiebreaker has been adopted for NCAA play only when the team match has been decided.
Most NCAA tournaments still require doubles and singles to play a deciding set in the conventional way.
 
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The ITA team rankings came out today and the Buckeyes were in second place in the computer formula behind #1 USC.
Lots of shake up in the new rankings as the computers kick in and the human polls are put to rest.
Surprisingly UCLA jumped U Virginia to be ranked #4 by a slim margin.
Have to imagine that Cavalier fans are scratching their heads over the computer formulas now.
If the NCAA tournament were tomorrow, using this ranking, the seeding for the teams would be USC--1, tOSU--2, UCLA--3, Uva--4.
OSU and UCLA would potentially meet in the semis, while USC and UVA would face off in the other semi.
Long way till May but one can only dream. :biggrin:

ITA Poll 2/28
 
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The ITA rankings for individual single's players in the NCAA was posted today and six Buckeyes made the computerized rankings.
#6 Blaz Rola
#24 Chase Buchanan
#44 Devin McCarthy
#58 Peter Kobelt
#105 Ilie VanEngelen
#114 Connor Smith
Nice to see Rola gets a nice bump from some stellar play in the ITA and vs. UK and UNC. McCarthy also got a nice boost from some key wins.

Also the value of Kobelt's win over #1 Mitchell Frank of UVa cannot be underestimated. Peter jumped from unranked with his entrance into this weeks rankings!

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Buckeye's doubles team Chase Buchanan and Blaz Rola remained atop the ITA double's rankings released today and the margin over the field is not even close.
Three other Buckeye tandems included in the rankings were:
#20 Chase Buchanan and Peter Kobelt
#28 Ilie VanEngelen and Devin McCarthy
#48 Blaz Rola and Connor Smith
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Blaz Rola was named Big Ten athlete of the week for the second straight week.
This is the fifth time Rola has been honored by the Big Ten in the 2011-12 year and the 6th time in his career.

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Feb. 29, 2012

Athlete of the Week
Blaz Rola, Ohio State
So. - Ptuj, Slovenia - Gimzazija Ptuj
  • Posted a 4-0 record over the weekend, helping No. 2 Ohio State to wins over No. 7 Kentucky (4-0) and No. 17 North Carolina (6-1)
  • Defeated No. 20 Alex Musialek of Kentucky (6-1, 6-4) and No. 91 Brennan Boyajian of North Carolina (6-1, 6-2) in singles play
  • Teamed with Chase Buchanan to take down 48th-ranked Eric Quigley and Panav Jha of Kentucky (8-5) and Boyajian and Esben Hess-Olesen of North Carolina (8-4) in doubles action
  • Earns his fifth weekly award of the season and the sixth of his career
  • Last Ohio State Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week: Blaz Rola (Feb. 21, 2012)
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Buckeyes will travel this weekend to face #26 ITA ranked Notre Dame on Saturday at 11:30.

 
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brutus2002;2117371; said:
Kobelt has to be the biggest suprise and definately one of the biggest movers in the country. Awesome!!!
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Yep! you are right, Kobelt's move was incredible, he had less than 4.45 points prior to the win over #1 ranked Mitchell Frank of UVA.
That victory had tremendous computer point value, he now has 11.22 points to climb to #58 in the ITA rankings.
If Kobelt were to defeat Frank again. . . :highfive:
he would climb another 30 places in the rankings.
Peter's single's record this year is 10-8.
His next best win was vs. an unranked Nguyen of Cornell.
Against nationally ranked players his record is 1-7, but that 1 W was a big #1.:biggrin:
 
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gracelhink;2116761; said:
Buckeye's doubles team Chase Buchanan and Blaz Rola remained atop the ITA double's rankings released today and the margin over the field is not even close.
Three other Buckeye tandems included in the rankings were:
#20 Chase Buchanan and Peter Kobelt
#28 Ilie VanEngelen and Devin McCarthy
#48 Blaz Rola and Connor Smith
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Don't quite understand why Kobelt and Smith are not ranked in the top 60 when it comes to doubles. I don't know there exact record but I don't think they have lost many matches when they have played together this year. Guess I just don't give a lot of credence to those rankings.
 
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LitlBuck;2118019; said:
Don't quite understand why Kobelt and Smith are not ranked in the top 60 when it comes to doubles. I don't know there exact record but I don't think they have lost many matches when they have played together this year. Guess I just don't give a lot of credence to those rankings.
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Really? Keep in mind that there are a lot of #1 singles teams at other schools that have good players. It doesn't seem that out of line.
 
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OSU_D/;2118240; said:
Really? Keep in mind that there are a lot of #1 singles teams at other schools that have good players. It doesn't seem that out of line.
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Keep in mind we are talking about the top 60 here..and OSU has had a VERY weighty schedule, playing many top ranked teams..and those two may not be our top pair..but they are winning.

Are there 60 better duos out there? I don't know, but it does seem like a reasonable question to ask.
 
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HINYG8;2118266; said:
...Are there 60 better duos out there? I don't know, but it does seem like a reasonable question to ask.
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This is my thought as well.
Kobelt and Buchanan are still ranked #20 in the NCAA and Rola and Smith are hanging on at #48.
It is unfortunate that Kobe and Smith will have an uphill battle to be included in the draw for the ITA/NCAA double's tournament in May.
They could make some noise against any team in the nation.
Here is Kobelt's doubles record this year. KOBELT ITA Doubles.
Peter and Chase picked up a ton of ITA points in the fall with a 6-0 record and especially the two wins against nationally ranked opponents.
In the 2012 season, Kobelt and Smith are 13-0 but have 0 wins against nationally ranked opponents.
Three factors are working against Peter and Connor in terms of ITA rankings:
1. They did not play together for the majority of the fall season.
2. The ITA formula is designed to minimize win loss records and is heavily weighted for wins against nationally ranked opponents, i.e. see Peter Kobelt single's ITA ranking before and after his victory over #1 ranked Mitchell Frank of UVa.
3. Kobelt and Smith have not played and will probably not play against any nationally ranked teams in the #3 doubles position.:(

If the ITA were a coaches poll rather than a computer ranking, I believe Smith and Kobelt would get some love.
 
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A preview of the Buckeyes taking on #26 ranked Notre Dame Saturday 11:30 am at South Bend, Indiana, from the official OSU tennis site.

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The Ohio State men?s tennis team (14-1) will return to the road to take on No. 29 Notre Dame (11-5) at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Eck Tennis Pavilion in South Bend, Ind. This marks the 33rd-consecutive season the two squads have met, dating back to the 1978-79 season....

Scouting the Irish
Notre Dame currently sits at 11-5 overall for its spring season and enters the match with the Buckeyes with momentum, having won four its last five dual matches. Almost half of the Irish?s played schedule has been against schools from the Big Ten, having faced seven schools which Ohio State will meet later in the year. They are 4-3 in those contests, earning wins against Northwestern (No. 62), Michigan (28), Wisconsin and Michigan State (56). Losses came vs. Illinois (No. 17) and twice against Indiana (29), including the first round of the ITA National Indoors Championship.
The Irish began the season 3-0 with wins against Illinois State, Toledo and William & Mary and also have defeated No. 39 Wake Forest, No. 44 Cornell, IUPUI and Marquette. Their two losses against non-Big Ten teams have come at the hands of No. 10 Duke and No. 6 Kentucky.
Notre Dame is led by seniors Casey Watt, Sam Keeton, Niall Fitzgerald and juniors Billy Pecor and Spencer Talmadge. Sophomore Greg Andrews is the lone ranked singles player on the team, entering the match vs. the Buckeyes as the 45th-ranked player nationally. The Irish have no ranked doubles teams.
Ohio State vs. Notre Dame
The Buckeyes are 27-26 all-time against the Fighting Irish, although under the direction of Ty Tucker, Ohio State leads the series 8-4. The two teams met twice last season, with Ohio State winning both. In the regular season meeting on April 13, 2011, the Buckeyes were victorious 5-2 in Columbus. A little more than a month later on May 13, Ohio State and Notre Dame met in the NCAA Second Round, with the Buckeyes shutting out the Irish 4-0, while serving as hosts.
Ohio State has won the previous six meetings dating back to the 2005-06 season where the Buckeyes fell 5-2 at Notre Dame....

Up Next
The Buckeyes will return home after a six-day break to take on the 15th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies at 6 p.m. Friday, March 9 at the Varsity Tennis Center. Ohio State will also host a pair of two teams March 11, including its Big Ten home opener vs. Penn State at 12 p.m. and a non-conference bout vs. Northwestern Ohio at 5 p.m.
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Notre Dame is a tough environment for road teams. Bucks will need to play sharp, focused tennis to avoid a let down.

Fans can monitor the action Saturday morning from South Bend on Notre Dame livestats.
 
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Appears that Notre Dame shuffled their lineup moving Andrews and Tallmadge to #1 doubles and dropping Watt and Fitzgerald to 2nd dubs.

OSU coach Tucker also acc. to livestats bumped Rola to #1 and McCarthy to #4 in singles lineup. We'll have to see if that holds when singles starts.
 
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