http://www.itatennis.com/Assets/ita_assets/pdf/Men$!27s+National+Team+Indoors/2013+Washington/2013+MTI+Draw.pdf

Looks like some of the early results weren't taken into account for seeding purposes. Aggies are seeded #15 against #2 USC. USC are the four time defending champions, which is amazing consistency for tennis.

USC is 9-0 this season, only dropping a maximum of one point to UC Irvine, San Francisco, Loyola Marymount, and Stanford. UC Irvine, Loyola Marymount, and San Francisco were all double header days which typically don't mean much. Against Stanford, their only dropped point came from their number 4 player, and only freshman on the roster.

Going by the most recently released rankings and their line-up against Stanford, their line-up will look something like this:
1 - Emilio Gomez (#10)
2 - Yannick Hanfmann (#94)
3 - Roberto Quiroz (#23)
4 - Max de Vroome (#109)
5 - Eric Johnson (#46)
6 - Michael Grant (#117)

Other players they have ranked include: Ray Samiento (#12) and Jonny Wang (#118).

For comparison, we have Shane Vinsant (#67), Jackson Withrow (#100), and Harrison Adams (#124).

I know rankings don't mean that much this early in the season, but it's all we have to go off of so far. Going to be an even tougher match than Ohio State, but given the play so far, anything is possible. Would be another monumental upset given the recent success of USC.

Second round match-up would either be Miss State (10 seed) or Kentucky (7 seed), which will be an early preview of SEC action. Third round match up is also a 3/4 chance to see another SEC school. Ole Miss (12 seed), Tennessee (14 seed), and Georgia (6 seed). Only SEC school not in the bottom bracket is Florida (11 seed).

Good for the young guys to get a feel for what elite college tennis teams look like either way.

There's more SEC teams in the Indoors this year (7) than there are total teams in the Big 12 (6).

[This message has been edited by Patrick Dean (edited 2/14/2013 4:04p).]

We consistently get the worst draws in the world in national tournaments.

However, in my and possibly your days SA68, whenever we were on TV in football was like the kiss of death. But we obviously got past that didn't we. Steve's got a good, if not great crew of guys, just not that battle tested yet. I've been overdosing on watching "Miracle" about the 1980 ice hockey team, and YES I still believe in miracles. The guys can do it, that's why they play the game.

Scheduled to start at 1:00PM...

Tournament Preview here:
http://www.itatennis.com/AboutITA/News/ITA_National_Men_s_Team_Indoor_Championship_Gets_Underway_Friday_from_Seattle.htm

Video Here:
http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/m-tennis/13-ita-indoors.html

Live Stats Here:
http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/m-tennis/13-ita-ntc2.html

I thought they were going to reseed after the results of last weekend; at least thats what Steve said at our stadium club meeting; obviously they did not do it since we are still 15; oh well, gotta play them all at some point

Aggies take Line #1 doubles. Other 2 are on court still.

Withrow/Ore win on Doubles Court #1.
Adams/Vinsant down a break.
Efferding/Szabo on serve.

Number 3 doubles now down a break.

Number 3 doubles loses.

USC service on number 2 doubles for the point.

We lose #2 & #3 doubles 8-6. Win #1 8-5.

Aggies down 1-0.

Singles line-up is:
#1 Junior Ore
#2 Harrison Adams
#3 Jeremy Efferding
#4 Shane Vinsant
#5 Jackson Withrow
#6 Jordan Szabo

Pretty tough. Line #3 were up 5-2 or 5-3 and ends up losing. Oh well. Onto some singles.

3 doubles played really well. There wasn't much in it.

Also Vinsant is out of singles, ill. It's #4 Withrow, #5 Szabo #6 minavi

Line-up changed from what they posted earlier.

#4 - Jackson Withrow
#5 - Jordan Szabo
#6 - Behzad Minavi

Given how well Shane has been playing, you have to thing it's an injury thing.

Adams and Ore down a break in first set. Minavi up a break.

Adams and Szabo down two breaks.

Kinda getting ugly... not gonna post anymore updates...

Tough 4-0 loss, but not altogether unexpected. With a group this unproven, a loss like this against superior competition was coming at some point.

It was just a tough draw. With how well they have played thus far, they didn't deserve to end up against USC, but that's the way it goes.

The men have had a great start to the season. Mississippi State will be a harder match for them than the Ohio State match without the home court advantage.If they come up with a win today I will really believe that this team can be very good this year. This will be a good indicator of how we will do against the typical SEC teams this year on a neutral court. Good luck Aggies!

Ags seem to always get the shaft in national tournaments. Last year in the ncaas they match up with Stanford who just happens to be hosting. After the Ohio state win they should have easily moved into the top 10. However, for some odd reason this is the only week of the season that new rankings aren't released and the Aggies can't benefit from that big win last Sunday!

Jstaff

Draws not getting any easier with Tennesse tomorrow. The guys need to bring their A game tomorrow otherwise this will end up being a disastrous trip having been swept twice already. This team has lots of talent but so far have been very outclassed. Better get the doubles point and try to come up with 3 singles wins. Efferding seems to be playing as well as anybody. Need to find 2 more points somewhere. Adams is doing well but at #2 he will have his work cut out for him every match against these type of teams. Good luck Aggies!

A&M wins the doubles point today vs. Tennessee, then proceed to lay an egg in singles, losing 4 of 6 and getting smoked in 3 of them. Not exactly the weekend we were hoping for and it dashes any hopes of thinking we had a really good team this year. We're probably a year away from being competitive with the elite teams in the country.

To be elite, we're going to have to recruit a legit #1. Probably going to have to go foreign to find him. We'll see how we do in the SEC but if we finish in the top half it will be a good season. We're loooking at a real meat grinder compared to the Big whatever.

We are definitely not an indoor team, but it was a pretty disappointing weekend to say the least after an awesome start to the season. Losing 4-0 to USC is one thing, but we should've won against Tennessee and the loss to MSU was embarassing! Some of the singles scores were really lopsided. Hopefully we can shake it off and compete better in conference.

I don't think too much can be read into the final two matches. Our best team didn't play on either match with Szabo out for Miss. and Withrow out for Tennessee. Vinsant was ill on Friday and probably still wasn't 100%. Indoors not the best for us as no place to practice regularly at CS. Efferding should probably play number 1. Think they will do better as season goes on as long as there are no injuries.

Wow, people jumping ship like crazy. As stated, we didn't play our best lineup the last two matches and were still competitive. Will be interesting to see how we react. We've lost and beaten Texas in the same season many times so it woudln't shock me to beat these SEC teams during the regular season.

I just hope some of the line-up changes weren't due to injuries. I know that Withrow was having some back issues at TCU when I watched him play. And Vinsant not playing, then getting smoked (after previously being pretty solid) smells like something is wrong.

Some of the lopsided scores definitely make me wonder if we were playing sick, injured, etc. Although playing indoors usually gives a poor representation of what we are capable of. I'm hoping we can add an indoor facility in the near future. Could only help with recruiting and too many important matches are determined indoors to not have them!

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Exactly. IMHO indoor tourneys rarely give that much of an accurate indices of how the season will go considering the season is outdoors.

Agree let's see what the season brings with a promising group of guys.

Many people are blaming the recent losses due to injuries...BUT, What do you guys think about Behzad Minavi? He hasn't lost a match yet and he is starting to gain some confidence.. Im pretty sure he is going to start this weekend since there are still injuries within the team

Many people have blamed it on draws, sick, injuries, indoors and who knows what else. This is a good team, but not a great team. The Ohio State win was an incredible win and one that not many expected. I just hope that isn't the only highlight of the year. We are very good in doubles, but not great and the singles guys are all good, but not great. We don't have a true #1. Efferding seems to be the only reliable player day in and day out. I hope the guys can get it done this weekend but they are going to have their work cut out for them especially against OU.

^I see that, but this is also a young team as well. Considering the freshmen and sophomores we got on the team, we are on track to making some more significant noise in the next couple years.