Successful weekend. Beating #11 tu and then #12 Virginia!

Awesome!

Are they in a tournament? I thought Dodds had mandated no tu teams would play us.

ITA Indoor

Yeah it was the ITA team indoors so t.u. didn't have a choice!

I may have been a little premature in saying that I thought we could compete for the national championship. There seems to be a pretty clear line between the cream of the crop and us, but I do think that this could definitely be the best season in school history. I think we are a couple of pieces short of being able to beat the Florida/North Carolina/Stanford/UCLA type teams, but we could definitely finish in the top 10 and should host a regional and be a Sweet 16 team with a good shot at the Elite 8.

No doubt we have one of the best teams in school history...but when UNC has 7 people ranked. Yes I know its still early in the season and things move around, but its not very often all 6 in the lineup are ranked at the same time no matter what point in the season.

Edit bc of ITA typo of ranking in TAMU vs. UNC results

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The women move up to 11. Only loss is to UNC who is now 1. Not to shabby!

The only teams on our schedule that have much of a shot at beating us the rest of the way if we can stay healthy are Florida and Georgia and we play them both at home!

I was trying to figure out why Florida didn't end up in Virginia for the ITA, they didn't even play in the prelims!!! Does anybody reckon that's ITA's choice, or Florida's? I've looked back over the past couple of years when they were National champs, the number of points scored against them over the last 2 years is less than 10 across ALL their matches. No matter how you look at that, THAT is impressive. I just hope the weather cooperates on 3/3 and we have crowd that hopefully gets under their skin. That plus our ladies play their best we'll give them the match they will remember.

Aggies take down Michigan 4-3. Looking forward to seeing the women play Baylor and Florida in a few weeks. Gig Em Ladies!

On the UF front, we spent the weekend playing at Duke and at NC and split, losing to Duke and beating UNC.
So I hope we got the road loss out of our system before conference play!

^^It'll be a good match with the Ags no doubt.

#10 in the national rankings. It will be fun to see how high they can make it this year.

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I was trying to figure out why Florida didn't end up in Virginia for the ITA, they didn't even play in the prelims!!! Does anybody reckon that's ITA's choice, or Florida's? I've looked back over the past couple of years when they were National champs, the number of points scored against them over the last 2 years is less than 10 across ALL their matches. No matter how you look at that, THAT is impressive. I just hope the weather cooperates on 3/3 and we have crowd that hopefully gets under their skin. That plus our ladies play their best we'll give them the match they will remember.

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I have talked to some coaches about the same thing. So this ITA kickoff is basically like a preseason NCAA tournament played indoors, or at least the Sweet 16 of it is. The top 16 teams get to host and then there is a draft where 17 gets to pick where they want to go play and so on, all the way down to 64.

If you're Florida or Stanford, no one wants to play you in the first two rounds so you end up getting teams #62, 63 and 64 coming to your place for the "regional" rounds which I don't want to say is a waste of time for them but it isn't going to help their RPI. On the flip side some team like Sam Houston might have a great year and squeak into this thing and with one of the final picks they will get shipped to Florida or Stanford. If they want to get smoked by a top 10 team just for the experience, they make a short drive to College Station or Waco without killing their small budget for the same result.

Point is, a lot of teams opt out of this thing which makes an even stronger reason for Florida to opt out. With all of the other teams that opt out, the last few picks are usually unranked teams like maybe Sam or some other FCS team that had a bunch of seniors and won their conference and then graduated them all and are now back to being pretty bad and now you're Stanford wasting a match against a bad Sam Houston team.

Another reason is that if you're Florida, once you do beat the bad teams that came to play you, now you have to go to the Indoor Sweet 16 and play against top-15 teams on fast indoor courts in an environment that you're not used to that gives indoor teams a big advantage. So you're going to maybe take some losses to some teams you might beat outdoors and hurt your ranking. So there's why you don't see Florida in it.

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Thanks Harry

Baylor Bears coming in to town on Wednesday. Think we are favored, but Baylor is always good on both the men's and women's side even on their down years. I hope the girls are ready to plan cause I can't stand Baylor in almost every sport they play.

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The women of Baylor are down big-time this year. They will be fired up and anything can happen but we are the far better team this year and I think it could get ugly. For the first time in a long time I predict we will win big.

#6 ranking for the women, rates a massive OMG!!!! Who would have ever thought, coming this far so fast? Congrats ladies, Howard and Mark to make all this come together. There's no end to what you can accomplish. BIG test this Sunday, Florida coming to town. Florida had 1,022 watch them play Stanford last weekend on their home court. So much for our attendance records.

Impressive ranking indeed!! 4 of the top 10 are SEC. Didn't know Alabama had such a good team this year.

That is SWEET! Hope the girls can keep it going!
So happy for Mark. The guy has been involved with the program for such a long time and it is nice for him to reap some of the rewards and recognition. Coach Joffe is doing such an incredible job and I sure hope we can keep him here for a long time to come. Let's BTHOuttaaaaaaa Baylor tomorrow!!!!!

Ags 4 - Baylor 0!!!!

4-O but was very very close. Match could have gone either way. With Stancu out, this made for a much more challenging of a match. Baylor was actually playing better tennis than the Lady Ags towards the end. Hopefully the ladies can play a little better against South Carolina and come out blazing against Florida. I love beating Baylor even more than t.u. Looking forward to a showdown on Sunday and see if we are as good as the top teams in the nation.

4-0 but without one of our best players. Either way we are head and shoulders better than they are, that's what I'm happy about.