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

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Here is a preview of this weekend's matches vs. #24 Indiana on Friday and #63 Purdue from the OSU Tennis Site.

The No. 4 Ohio State men's tennis team (25-2, 8-0 Big Ten) will conclude the regular season this weekend as it hosts No. 24 Indiana (21-5, 8-0) at 4 p.m. Friday in a battle of the Big Ten's Top 2 teams. The Scarlet and Gray will then welcome No. 63 Purdue (11-11, 2-6) at noon Sunday.
Depending on the weather, Ohio State will play its home matches at either outside at Stickney Tennis Center or inside at the Varsity Tennis Center. The decision will be made on the day of the match.
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Match Pointers
  • The Indiana match is "Dress Like Ty Tucker Day." Fans are encouraged to wear sweatpants, an Ohio State sweatshirt or jacket (preferably red) and an Ohio State ball cap to honor head coach Ty Tucker and his gameday wardrobe.
  • The Easter Sunday contest with the Boilermakers is Senior Day. The Buckeyes will be honoring seniors Matt Allare, Balazs Novak and Shuhei Uzawa.
  • Ohio State and Indiana are the Top 2 teams in the Big Ten. Both teams are undefeated in the league with 8-0 records.
  • The Buckeyes will attempt to finish the regular-season with 126 consecutive wins at home.
  • Ohio State owns a 10-match win streak. Additionally, the Buckeyes finished their regular season road schedule winners of 56 of their last 57 road matches (non-tournament).
  • Throughout the months of March and April, the Scarlet and Gray have or will play 12 teams ranked in the ITA Top 75. In addition to playing No. 24 Indiana and No. 63 Purdue this weekend, Ohio State has faced No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 9 Pepperdine, No. 17 Illinois, No. 60 Iowa, No. 13 Kentucky, No. 27 Michigan, No. 57 Michigan State, No. 28 Notre Dame, No. 70 Wisconsin and No. 24 Minnesota. Ohio State is 17-2 vs. ranked opponents on the season, including a 10-0 mark in Columbus. . . .
Scouting the Hoosiers
Indiana is 21-5 overall and 8-0 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers began the season 8-2 with their only losses vs. Kentucky and at USC. Indiana has defeated Oklahoma, BYU and Arizona in non-conference competition. The Hoosiers will travel to Columbus on a one-game slide after losing, 6-1, to Louisville April 17. Indiana is 4-3 on the road this season.
Buckeyes vs. Indiana
The Scarlet and Gray are 42-39 all-time vs. the Hoosiers. Under head coach Ty Tucker, the Buckeyes have been victorious in the previous 10 meetings against Indiana for an overall mark of 10-2 since the 1999-2000 season.

Boilermaker Watch
Purdue is 11-11 overall and 2-6 in conference action, having lost four of its last five matches. In their last match the Boilermakers beat Northwestern, 4-3, April 11. Purdue began the year 6-2, but have gone 5-9 since, playing 11 ranked teams during that stretch. Purdue is 1-5 on the road, including a 0-3 mark in the Big Ten.
Buckeyes vs. Purdue
Ohio State is 68-18 all-time vs. the Boilermakers. Under 12th-year head coach Ty Tucker, the Buckeyes are 11-0 vs. Purdue.
First to 30
With two victories in singles action vs. Wisconsin and Minnesota, April 15 and 17, respectively, Blaz Rola became the first Buckeye to achieve 30 singles wins on the 2010-11 campaign. Rola boasts a 31-5 overall record, 18-3 dual mark and 12-5 ledger vs. ranked opponents. He is 7-2 at No. 1 and 11-1 at the No. 2 position.
Buckeyes in the Record Books
Senior Balazs Novak
?? 123 career singles wins: 6th
?? 97 career doubles wins: 7th
?? 220 total career wins: 4th
Senior Matt Allare
?? 109 career singles wins: T-9th
?? 91 career doubles wins: 8th
?? 200 total career wins: 7th
Senior Shuehei Uzawa
?? 71 career singles wins: 26th
?? 89 career doubles wins: 9th
?? 160 total career wins: 15th
Ohio State vs. Top 25
The Buckeyes own an 11-2 record vs. competition ranked in the ITA Top 25 this season. Since 1999, Ohio State is 76-40 against Top 25 opponents, but that number improves to 70-11 since the 2005-06 campaign.
Ohio State vs. Top 25 Opponents
No. 18 Mississippi W 6-1
No. 11 Georgia W 6-1
at No. 24 North CarolinaW 6-1
No. 14 Texas Tech* W 4-1
No. 5 Texas* W 4-1
No. 1 Virginia* L 1-4
No. 15 Louisville W 6-1
at No. 17 Texas A&M L 0-4
at No. 11 Pepperdine W 6-1
at No. 10 Illinois W 7-0
at No. 12 Kentucky W 4-3
No. 23 Michigan W 6-1
No. 24 Minnesota W 7-0
*ITA National Team Indoor Championships
Big Ten Best
Ohio State has won 74 consecutive matches in the Big Ten after the 7-0 shutouts at Wisconsin and Minnesota April 15 and 17. The Scarlet and Gray are currently 45-3 in singles and 22-2 in doubles in conference matches for 2010-11. Entering the season, the Buckeyes have collected five-consecutive Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles. Head coach Ty Tucker also has nabbed Big Ten Coach of the Year every year during the span as well. Last season, Ohio State recorded a combined Big Ten singles mark of 58-2 and a total Big Ten doubles record of 18-8. In addition to the conference win streak, the Buckeyes also have won 126 of their last 131 league contests, including postseason play.
In the Rankings
Ten of the 11 teams in the Big Ten Conference are ranked in the latest Campbell/ITA College Tennis Division I Polls announced April 19.
Rank School
4 Ohio State
18 Illinois
23 Minnesota
24 Indiana
27 Michigan
52 Michigan State
63 Purdue
66 Iowa
71 Wisconsin
75 Northwestern
Dominant in Columbus
The Buckeyes have won a school-record 124 consecutive home matches dating back to the 2002-03 season. Ohio State won the first 11 matches to begin the season at the Varsity Indoor Tennis Center, six coming against ranked teams. They have since won three straight contests at Stickney Tennis Center to move to 9-0 vs. ranked opponents. In the Big Ten, no other team in any sport has won as many consecutive contests at home than the Buckeyes. Ohio State was victorious in all 21 home matches last season, marking the seventh-consecutive year the team achieved perfection in Columbus. The home win streak began April 6, 2003 with a 5-2 triumph over Purdue. . . .
Up Next
The Buckeyes will begin postseason play at the Big Ten championships in Madison, Wis., April 28-May 1.
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Today's match will determine the Big Ten regular season champion. Buckeyes have a chance to capture their 6th straight!
Both the Buckeyes and Hoosiers enter undefeated (8-0) in B1G matches. Today's winner will clinch at least a share and with a victory Sunday gain the undisputed crown.
Indiana's #1 singles player Jeremy Langer played doubles but sat out his single's match in Indiana's loss to Louisville.
I expect him to be back for this major showdown.
Indiana is the underdog, but one dog making some major noise!
So far this year the Hoosiers have taken a bite out of Big Ten favorites Minnesota, TSUN, and Illinois.
The Bucks will need to be sharply focused today to avoid the upset.
Fans can monitor the action online at OSU Livestats
GO BUCKS!
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Just back from the match and the Buckeyes demonstrated their dominance in Big Ten Tennis once again.
At the expense of the best of the league the Buckeyes sealed the victory quickly with a point in doubles, from the #2 and #3 pairs.
Then Matt Allare, Chase Buchanan, Blaz Rola, and Peter Kobelt piled on the point total with straight set victories.
the Buckeyes couldn't lose a tie breaker last weekend vs. Wisconsin and Minnesota going 10-0 in breakers, but tonight the 3rd set breakers both went to the Hoosiers, McCarthy and Novak fought back to earn a 3rd set but dropped their 10 point breakers.
Buckeyes need a win vs. #63 Purdue Sunday to claim an undisputed Big Ten title.
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Two big numbers achieved today vs. Indiana--75 and 125!

Recap of the Buckeyes victory over Indiana from the OSU Tennis site.

The fourth-ranked Ohio State men's tennis team (26-2, 9-0) defeated No. 24 Indiana (21-6, 8-1), 5-2, Friday in a battle of the Big Ten's Top 2 teams in front of 253 fans looking similar to Buckeye head coach Ty Tucker for "Dress Like Coach Tucker Day" at the Varsity Indoor Tennis Center. Both teams entered the match undefeated in the conference and were looking to take sole possession of first place in the league standings.
Freshman Blaz Rola clinched the victory for the third-consecutive time. The Ptuj, Slovenia, native downed Indiana's Santiago Gruter 6-1, 6-4 for his team-high 32nd win. Rola is now 19-5 in dual singles and 12-1 at the No. 2 spot.
In doubles, Chase Buchanan and senior co-captain Shuhei Uzawa gave the Buckeyes early momentum by beating Josh MacTaggart and Stephen Vogl, 8-2, on court two. The duo moves to 9-2 on the season when paired together. Overall in doubles, Buchanan is 24-8 while Uzawa is 18-4.
Balazs Novak and Rola claimed the doubles point for the Scarlet and Gray by downing the Hoosiers' Isade Juneau and Will Kendall, 8-5, on court three. The win was the fifth in a row for the Buckeye pair, who are now 10-1 overall at 8-0 at the No. 3 position.
In the final doubles contest, Matt Allare and Peter Kobelt, the nation's 13th ranked team, lost a hard fought match to Gruter and Jeremy Langer at No. 1. The match was on-serve the entire time leading to a tiebreaker which the Buckeyes lost 6-4 for a 9-8 setback.
Allare won his 18th-consecutive match, giving the Buckeyes a 2-0 advantage by beating Juneau 6-1, 6-0 on court four. The senior co-captain picked up his 30th singles win on the year and moved to 21-1 in dual action, including marks of 8-0 in the Big Ten and 15-0 at No. 4.
Buchanan improved to 28-5 overall and 14-1 at the No. 1 spot by defeating Langer in straight sets 6-2, 6-1. The victory was the 11th in a row for the New Albany, Ohio, native.
Competing in his first-career conference singles match, Kobelt won against Dimitrije Tasic 6-2, 7-6 at No. 6. The redshirt-freshman moved to 3-0 in dual singles and 13-3 overall.
Ohio State dropped its first point of the match when Indiana's Vogl defeated redshirt-sophomore Devin McCarthy 7-5, 5-7, 10-3 on court five. McCarthy fell to 26-5 overall while suffering his first conference loss.
Novak and MacTaggart finished the match in an extremely long and hard fought bout. MacTaggart edged Novak 7-6, 2-6, 10-4 to give the Hoosiers their second win of the evening.
Ohio State will conclude its regular season slate when they host No. 63 Purdue at noon Sunday. Log on to OhioStateBuckeyes.com for updated information on where the Buckeyes and Boilermakers will be playing Sunday.
Tennis Match Results
#4 Ohio State 5, #24 Indiana 2
April 22, 2011 at Columbus, Ohio
(Varsity Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. #12 Chase Buchanan (OSU) def. Jeremy Langer (IU) 6-2, 6-1
2. #6 Blaz Rola (OSU) def. Santiago Gruter (IU) 6-1, 6-4
3. Josh MacTaggart (IU) def. #89 Balazs Novak (OSU) 7-6, 2-6, 10-4
4. #45 Matt Allare (OSU) def. Isade Juneau (IU) 6-1, 6-0
5. Stephen Vogl (IU) def. #66 Devin McCarthy (OSU) 7-5, 5-7, 10-3
6. #70 Peter Kobelt (OSU) def. Dimitrije Tasic (IU) 6-2, 7-6
Doubles competition
1. Santiago Gruter/Jeremy Langer (IU) def. #13 Matt Allare/Peter Kobelt (OSU) 9-8
2. Chase Buchanan/Shuhei Uzawa (OSU) def. Josh MacTaggart/Stephen Vogl (IU) 8-2
3. Balazs Novak/Blaz Rola (OSU) def. Isade Juneau/Will Kendall (IU) 8-5
Match Notes:
Indiana 21-6; 8-1 Big Ten; National ranking #24
Ohio State 26-2; 9-0 Big Ten; National ranking #4
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1); Singles (4,1,2,6,5,3)
Official: Vince Solomon T-3:54 A-253
  • The win vs. Indiana was the 125th-consecutive home triumph for Ohio State, dating back to the 2002-03 season. They are 12-0 at the Varsity Tennis Center.
  • The Buckeyes are 10-0 on the season vs. ranked opponents.
  • Ohio State has now won 75 consecutive Big Ten matches.
  • Since 2005-06, the Scarlet and Gray have gone 190-12 when ranked in the ITA Top 25, including a 12-2 ledger this season.
  • Indiana was the 12th opponent ranked in the ITA Top 75 the Buckeyes have played during the months of March and April.
  • The Buckeyes have played 11 teams ranked in the April 19 ITA Top 25 rankings.
  • The match against the Hoosiers was "Dress Like Coach Tucker Day."
  • Ty Tucker improves his overall record to 318-53 as head coach
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MililaniBuckeye;1910274; said:
Updated thread title to reflect sixth straight conference title...
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The BP thread title recognition beats any hardwear at the Varsity Tennis Center showcase!:wink2:

Congratulations to the 2011 men's OSU Tennis team.
Your 125 and 75 are marks that will make for legendary and epic stories,
Retelling (with some embellishment of course) will leave your grandkids spellbound!
 
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Van Engelen battles back to capture the 2d set at #3 singles 6-0 and finishes off the breaker at 10-6 to gain the 7th point for the Buckeyes.
Final from The Varsity Tennis Center today-- Buckeyes 7 Boilers 0.
Up nest for OSU is the Big Ten tournament scheduled for next weekend at University of Wisconsin.
 
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