[ColoradoTree]

The SEC tournament is going on this week, and 19th-ranked Auburn is currently playing unranked Arkansas. Arkansas won the doubles point, and then Auburn captured 4 of 6 first sets, but Arkansas has hung in there, now up 2-1 with the four remaining matches into third sets. An Arkansas upset there would be one domino to fall in our efforts to get into the top 16, so if you have literally nothing else to do, you can follow that match (and the rest of the SEC tournament, I think) here: http://www.sidearmstats.com/utennessee/mten/

The ACC tournament (Miami, FSU), the Big 12 tournament (Texas Tech, Kansas, and Oklahoma State (currently 11th)), and the Big Ten tournament (Illinois, Michigan (currently 23rd), and Northwestern (currently 12th) are all next week at the same time as the Pac-12 tournament, so root for upsets from that group or at least that they fall to the higher-ranked teams that we have no chance of catching. 

So, this week, root for SEC frontrunners: Vanderbilt, Georgia, Florida, Ole Miss, and South Carolina. Then, next week, root for UNC, Georgia Tech, and Duke in the ACC, and Texas in the Big 12 (anyone, really, as long as Texas Tech and Kansas lose).  Not only would that inhibit the chances of teams like Auburn, Miami, Florida State, Texas Tech, and Kansas to get in ahead of us, but it would keep our three losses (Vanderbilt, Florida, and Texas) looking as good as can be, further boosting our stock (or technically, reducing the damage that those losses do to our ranking). In the Big Ten, Northwestern is the highest-ranked team, and we might not be able to catch them mathematically anyway, so we're in good shape as long as Illinois and Michigan don't take the title.

EDIT: Arkansas pulled off the upset, 4-2, with a 3rd set tiebreaker at #5 singles seconds before it would have lost at #6 singles, so this was a very tight match, and it dooms Auburn's chances at a top 16 seed. In my head, I've already moved Stanford up to 19th.

[ColoradoTree]

The SEC tournament is going on this week, and 19th-ranked Auburn is currently playing unranked Arkansas. Arkansas won the doubles point, and then Auburn captured 4 of 6 first sets, but Arkansas has hung in there, now up 2-1 with the four remaining matches into third sets. An Arkansas upset there would be one domino to fall in our efforts to get into the top 16, so if you have literally nothing else to do, you can follow that match (and the rest of the SEC tournament, I think) here: http://www.sidearmstats.com/utennessee/mten/

The ACC tournament (Miami, FSU), the Big 12 tournament (Texas Tech, Kansas, and Oklahoma State (currently 11th)), and the Big Ten tournament (Illinois, Michigan (currently 23rd), and Northwestern (currently 12th) are all next week at the same time as the Pac-12 tournament, so root for upsets from that group or at least that they fall to the higher-ranked teams that we have no chance of catching. 

So, this week, root for SEC frontrunners: Vanderbilt, Georgia, Florida, Ole Miss, and South Carolina. Then, next week, root for UNC, Georgia Tech, and Duke in the ACC, and Texas in the Big 12 (anyone, really, as long as Texas Tech and Kansas lose).  Not only would that inhibit the chances of teams like Auburn, Miami, Florida State, Texas Tech, and Kansas to get in ahead of us, but it would keep our three losses (Vanderbilt, Florida, and Texas) looking as good as can be, further boosting our stock (or technically, reducing the damage that those losses do to our ranking). In the Big Ten, Northwestern is the highest-ranked team, and we might not be able to catch them mathematically anyway, so we're in good shape as long as Illinois and Michigan don't take the title.

EDIT: Arkansas pulled off the upset, 4-2, with a 3rd set tiebreaker at #5 singles seconds before it would have lost at #6 singles, so this was a very tight match, and it dooms Auburn's chances at a top 16 seed. In my head, I've already moved Stanford up to 19th.