Saturday, May 11
Starkville, MS
1:00 PM
TCU
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#7 Mississippi State
NCAA Preview: Mississippi State
5/10/2019 3:10:00 PM | Men's Tennis
TCU will face No. 7 Mississippi State in the third round at the NCAA Championship Super Regional in Starkville, Miss.
STARKVILLE, Miss. – The postseason for the No. 9 TCU men's tennis team will continue with a third-round matchup against No. 7 Mississippi State at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championship Super Regional on Saturday, May 11 at 1 p.m., at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Center in Starkville, Miss.
The Horned Frogs (21-6) will be facing the Bulldogs (24-3), for the second time this season after already facing off in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in February. TCU came away with the 4-1 win, but Mississippi State has only dropped two matches since then and are riding a 14-match winning streak currently.
TCU Quick Hits
-TCU's appearance in the Sweet 16 or third round marks the fifth straight season and the first time in program history advancing to this stage of postseason for five consecutive years
-The 21 wins posted by TCU under ninth year head coach David Roditi marked the fifth straight season with 20+ wins
-14 of the 21 wins this spring were over ranked foes
-The Horned Frogs defeated eight opponents ranked within the Oracle/ITA top 25, four within the top 15, two within the top 10 and one top five foe
-The Frogs are ranked No. 9 currently to mark the fifth straight season of a top 10 ranking
-TCU started the season ranked No. 14 and only dipped out of the top 15 for two weeks and reached as high as No. 7 this year
-The Frogs finished tied for second in the Big 12 to mark the fifth consecutive season finishing in the top half of the conference standings
-Four student-athletes are riding winning streaks in singles action: Jong (5), Fomba (2), Gray (2) and Rybakov (1)
-TCU has two ranked singles players (No. 4 Alex Rybakov and No. 28 Alastair Gray) and two ranked doubles pairs (No. 15 Alastair Gray/Alex Rybakov and No. 22 Bertus Kruger/Reese Stalder)
-The Frogs will have four players representing the program in the NCAA Individual Championships that will take place May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
-Rybakov earned the automatic bid from the Big 12 Conference and will be competing in the singles championship for the fourth straight season and was an automatic All-American for the third time in his career by virtue of being seeded No. 4 in the singles championship
-Gray earned his first at-large bid to the NCAA Single Championship and will pair up with Rybakov in the doubles bracket as well
-Kruger and Stalder round out the individual appearances as the duo will also appear in the doubles bracket. Stalder is a 2017 ITA Doubles All-American after reaching the Final Four of the championship in Georgia with TCU alum Jerry Lopez
-In his final season in Fort Worth, postseason honors for Rybakov have come flooding in as he was named Big 12 Co-Player of the Year and became the first TCU men's tennis player to earn four straight All-Big 12 Singles First Team honors as well as four straight years on an All-Big 12 Doubles team
NCAA History
-TCU is making its 30th appearance in the NCAA Championship
-This is the sixth appearance in the last seven seasons and the sixth appearance under the helm of David Roditi
-The Frogs advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fifth straight season and for the 18th time in program history
-TCU is one of seven schools to make an appearance in the Sweet 16 for the last five straight seasons (TCU, Texas, Wake Forest, UCLA, UNC, USC and Ohio State)
-The senior class of Alex Rybakov and Reese Stalder are the fourth in TCU program history to make four straight Sweet 16 appearances. The other three senior classes were led by TCU alumni and assistant coach Devin Bowen (1994) and head coach David Roditi (1996) along with recent graduates Guillermo Nuñez and Trevor Johnson (2018)
-The best finish for TCU in the NCAA Championship was a Final Four appearance on four occasions - 1989, 1996, 2001 and 2015
-TCU will be playing in Starkville and the state of Mississippi for the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history
Live Video & Results
Live video and scoring of the matches can be found at HailState.com. Final results and a recap will be available at GoFrogs.com following the completion of the competitions. In-match updates can also be found by following TCU men's tennis on twitter (@TCUMensTennis).
The Horned Frogs (21-6) will be facing the Bulldogs (24-3), for the second time this season after already facing off in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in February. TCU came away with the 4-1 win, but Mississippi State has only dropped two matches since then and are riding a 14-match winning streak currently.
TCU Quick Hits
-TCU's appearance in the Sweet 16 or third round marks the fifth straight season and the first time in program history advancing to this stage of postseason for five consecutive years
-The 21 wins posted by TCU under ninth year head coach David Roditi marked the fifth straight season with 20+ wins
-14 of the 21 wins this spring were over ranked foes
-The Horned Frogs defeated eight opponents ranked within the Oracle/ITA top 25, four within the top 15, two within the top 10 and one top five foe
-The Frogs are ranked No. 9 currently to mark the fifth straight season of a top 10 ranking
-TCU started the season ranked No. 14 and only dipped out of the top 15 for two weeks and reached as high as No. 7 this year
-The Frogs finished tied for second in the Big 12 to mark the fifth consecutive season finishing in the top half of the conference standings
-Four student-athletes are riding winning streaks in singles action: Jong (5), Fomba (2), Gray (2) and Rybakov (1)
-TCU has two ranked singles players (No. 4 Alex Rybakov and No. 28 Alastair Gray) and two ranked doubles pairs (No. 15 Alastair Gray/Alex Rybakov and No. 22 Bertus Kruger/Reese Stalder)
-The Frogs will have four players representing the program in the NCAA Individual Championships that will take place May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
-Rybakov earned the automatic bid from the Big 12 Conference and will be competing in the singles championship for the fourth straight season and was an automatic All-American for the third time in his career by virtue of being seeded No. 4 in the singles championship
-Gray earned his first at-large bid to the NCAA Single Championship and will pair up with Rybakov in the doubles bracket as well
-Kruger and Stalder round out the individual appearances as the duo will also appear in the doubles bracket. Stalder is a 2017 ITA Doubles All-American after reaching the Final Four of the championship in Georgia with TCU alum Jerry Lopez
-In his final season in Fort Worth, postseason honors for Rybakov have come flooding in as he was named Big 12 Co-Player of the Year and became the first TCU men's tennis player to earn four straight All-Big 12 Singles First Team honors as well as four straight years on an All-Big 12 Doubles team
NCAA History
-TCU is making its 30th appearance in the NCAA Championship
-This is the sixth appearance in the last seven seasons and the sixth appearance under the helm of David Roditi
-The Frogs advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fifth straight season and for the 18th time in program history
-TCU is one of seven schools to make an appearance in the Sweet 16 for the last five straight seasons (TCU, Texas, Wake Forest, UCLA, UNC, USC and Ohio State)
-The senior class of Alex Rybakov and Reese Stalder are the fourth in TCU program history to make four straight Sweet 16 appearances. The other three senior classes were led by TCU alumni and assistant coach Devin Bowen (1994) and head coach David Roditi (1996) along with recent graduates Guillermo Nuñez and Trevor Johnson (2018)
-The best finish for TCU in the NCAA Championship was a Final Four appearance on four occasions - 1989, 1996, 2001 and 2015
-TCU will be playing in Starkville and the state of Mississippi for the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history
Live Video & Results
Live video and scoring of the matches can be found at HailState.com. Final results and a recap will be available at GoFrogs.com following the completion of the competitions. In-match updates can also be found by following TCU men's tennis on twitter (@TCUMensTennis).
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