Frog Men to Face Ole Miss in NCAA First Round
5/4/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
May 4, 2010
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FORT WORTH—The TCU men's tennis team was selected for its 19th NCAA tournament appearance in the last 20 seasons Tuesday, as the entire 64-team field was announced. The Horned Frogs will travel to College Station, Texas, to square off with Ole Miss in the NCAA First Round at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 14, at George P. Mitchell Tennis Center.
TCU (12-12) and Ole Miss (18-7) will join Texas A&M (23-6) and Prairie View A&M (10-15) in the College Station Regional. The Aggies, an at-large selection, received the No. 10 overall seed in the tournament. The Rebels, also an at-large pick, are the second-highest seed in the regional, while TCU, the Mountain West Conference champion, is seeded third and Southwestern Conference champion Prairie View A&M is fourth.
The winner between the Frogs and Rebels will play the winner of Texas A&M and Prairie View at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 15. The regional champion will then advance to compete in the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships held May 21-25 at Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
The regional matches will be regulation dual matches with three (3) eight-game, pro-set doubles played for one team point, followed by six (6) singles matches, each valued at one team point, played best-of-three sets. Regular scoring will be used and a 12-point tiebreaker will be played at eight games all in doubles and at six games all in singles.
The Frogs received an automatic selection to the NCAA tournament after winning the Mountain West Conference championship last weekend in Las Vegas, Nev. BYU, which won the league's regular-season title, received an at-large NCAA selection Tuesday. Overall, 11 of the team's on TCU's schedule advanced to the national tournament.
The first-round meeting between TCU and Ole Miss will mark the 10th match between the two schools since 1974. The Frogs hold a 5-4 edge during that period, with the Rebels winning the most recent matchup last season, 5-2, in Waco, Texas.
Ole Miss enters NCAA regional play ranked No. 18 in the national ITA team rankings. The squad is led by two ranked singles players in No. 33 Marcel Thiemann and No. 97 Tucker Vorster. Both players also own doubles rankings, as Thiemann and twin brother Christoph Thiemann are ranked 20th and Vorster and Jonas Lutjen are listed 61st.
Individual fields for the NCAA singles and doubles championships will be announced Wednesday afternoon.
