03-11-2019, 08:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2019, 08:44 AM by ColoradoTree.)
Elsewhere in the conference:
* UCLA beat Arizona State 4-2 and Arizona 4-3, while USC beat ASU 4-3 and Arizona 6-1. I'm shocked by the UCLA-Arizona scoreline. This is not a good Arizona team, and yet it pushed a top 10 team in the country to the limit. A good lesson not to take them lightly. (UCLA won doubles against Arizona and relatively straightforward matches at #1 and #2 singles, lost at #4 through #6, and won a close one at #3 to take the win.) Against UCLA, Arizona State won doubles and #2 singles, and lost tight matches at #1, #3, and #5, with #6 on serve late in the third set. Against USC, Arizona State again won doubles and #2 singles, won #5 singles, and lost tight matches at #1 and #4.
* Washington beat Colorado 4-1 and Utah 4-3 on the road, while Washington State surprisingly dropped both matches to the mountain schools by 4-3 scores. That's pretty dreadful news for our ranking, since Wazzu should get punished fairly harshly for losing to two relatively poor teams, and Wazzu is still one of our best 5 wins. I still think Colorado just isn't that good and Wazzu presumably had an off day, but Utah is showing signs of being improved. Against UW, they won doubles and #1 and #3 singles (Brianna Chisholm beating UW's Stacey Fung at #1 is a shock), and against WSU, they won doubles and #2, #4, and #5 singles, and Chisholm pushed WSU's Michaela Bayerlova to a third set.
* Cal beat Oregon 5-2, dropping singles matches on Court 1 (Sangwan beat Rosenqvist in a third-set match tiebreaker with the dual already clinched) and Court 4 (Oregon's Paiton Wagner beat Cal's Maria Smith in a regular tiebreaker in the third set, as they'd started the set when the dual match was clinched).
Around the country:
* #1 North Carolina beat #3 Duke again, this time by a 4-1 score
* #2 Georgia rolled over #21 Texas A&M, 4-0, and also beat #15 LSU 4-2
* #33 Tennessee also beat LSU, 4-0, so more bad news for our ranking
* #16 Texas beat #17 Florida State, 4-1, which is a bit of good news
Pac-12 Standings
T1. Washington (12-1, 2-0)
T1. USC (10-2, 2-0)
T1. UCLA (9-2, 2-0)
T4. Stanford (8-1, 1-0)
T4. Cal (6-3, 1-0)
T6. Utah (8-3, 1-1)
T6. Colorado (7-7, 1-1)
T8. Washington State (13-4, 0-2)
T8. Arizona (8-5, 0-2)
T8. Oregon (6-7, 0-2)
T8. Arizona State (5-6, 0-2)
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This coming weekend:
* Cal and Stanford welcome the Arizona schools to town, Arizona at Cal on Friday and Stanford on Saturday, with ASU at Stanford on Friday and at Cal on Saturday
* No conference matches for UCLA and USC, but UCLA plays at Pepperdine on Wednesday, while USC plays Baylor on Saturday night at Indian Wells.
* The Washington schools host Oregon, and Washington State adds a Wednesday road trip to Fresno State on top of the Ducks.
* Colorado plays at Colorado State, while Utah travels to Fresno State on Tuesday before its intrastate rivalry match at BYU on Saturday.
Elsewhere around the country:
UNC is idle, Georgia plays at Florida and South Carolina, Duke hosts Wake Forest and Pitt, and Vanderbilt travels to Texas A&M and LSU.
* UCLA beat Arizona State 4-2 and Arizona 4-3, while USC beat ASU 4-3 and Arizona 6-1. I'm shocked by the UCLA-Arizona scoreline. This is not a good Arizona team, and yet it pushed a top 10 team in the country to the limit. A good lesson not to take them lightly. (UCLA won doubles against Arizona and relatively straightforward matches at #1 and #2 singles, lost at #4 through #6, and won a close one at #3 to take the win.) Against UCLA, Arizona State won doubles and #2 singles, and lost tight matches at #1, #3, and #5, with #6 on serve late in the third set. Against USC, Arizona State again won doubles and #2 singles, won #5 singles, and lost tight matches at #1 and #4.
* Washington beat Colorado 4-1 and Utah 4-3 on the road, while Washington State surprisingly dropped both matches to the mountain schools by 4-3 scores. That's pretty dreadful news for our ranking, since Wazzu should get punished fairly harshly for losing to two relatively poor teams, and Wazzu is still one of our best 5 wins. I still think Colorado just isn't that good and Wazzu presumably had an off day, but Utah is showing signs of being improved. Against UW, they won doubles and #1 and #3 singles (Brianna Chisholm beating UW's Stacey Fung at #1 is a shock), and against WSU, they won doubles and #2, #4, and #5 singles, and Chisholm pushed WSU's Michaela Bayerlova to a third set.
* Cal beat Oregon 5-2, dropping singles matches on Court 1 (Sangwan beat Rosenqvist in a third-set match tiebreaker with the dual already clinched) and Court 4 (Oregon's Paiton Wagner beat Cal's Maria Smith in a regular tiebreaker in the third set, as they'd started the set when the dual match was clinched).
Around the country:
* #1 North Carolina beat #3 Duke again, this time by a 4-1 score
* #2 Georgia rolled over #21 Texas A&M, 4-0, and also beat #15 LSU 4-2
* #33 Tennessee also beat LSU, 4-0, so more bad news for our ranking
* #16 Texas beat #17 Florida State, 4-1, which is a bit of good news
Pac-12 Standings
T1. Washington (12-1, 2-0)
T1. USC (10-2, 2-0)
T1. UCLA (9-2, 2-0)
T4. Stanford (8-1, 1-0)
T4. Cal (6-3, 1-0)
T6. Utah (8-3, 1-1)
T6. Colorado (7-7, 1-1)
T8. Washington State (13-4, 0-2)
T8. Arizona (8-5, 0-2)
T8. Oregon (6-7, 0-2)
T8. Arizona State (5-6, 0-2)
***
This coming weekend:
* Cal and Stanford welcome the Arizona schools to town, Arizona at Cal on Friday and Stanford on Saturday, with ASU at Stanford on Friday and at Cal on Saturday
* No conference matches for UCLA and USC, but UCLA plays at Pepperdine on Wednesday, while USC plays Baylor on Saturday night at Indian Wells.
* The Washington schools host Oregon, and Washington State adds a Wednesday road trip to Fresno State on top of the Ducks.
* Colorado plays at Colorado State, while Utah travels to Fresno State on Tuesday before its intrastate rivalry match at BYU on Saturday.
Elsewhere around the country:
UNC is idle, Georgia plays at Florida and South Carolina, Duke hosts Wake Forest and Pitt, and Vanderbilt travels to Texas A&M and LSU.