The NCAA D1 Tennis tournament bracket selection shows will be broadcast on Tuesday, May 3:

5 p.m. Eastern -- Women
5:30 p.m. Eastern -- Men

(I presume that the "Watch Live" links will be active on this NCAA.com site at the appropriate times.)

These are more fun when you know you are in for sure.

On the Men's side, I see 4 or more probably five teams hosting in our region*. Looking at last week's rankings there's another 6 ranked 17-32, so our area can probably support 5 brackets.
I can see us as a 2-seed traveling to Texas Tech, OU, or TCU.
I also see dangerous 3-seeds in our region could be LSU & Baylor and Lamar as a 4 seed would also be a tough draw (but I'd take them in our group with a good chance to knock off a host in the first round for us)

For the women, we'll be a 3 seed and might have to travel further since there's fewer top 16 teams in our area right now.
Playing at Texas A&M, OSU, and (again) Texas Tech would be our best chances to play in state or relatively nearby.

(04-25-2016 09:49 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  On the Men's side, I see 4 or more probably five teams hosting in our region*. Looking at last week's rankings there's another 6 ranked 17-32, so our area can probably support 5 brackets.
I can see us as a 2-seed traveling to Texas Tech, OU, or TCU.
I also see dangerous 3-seeds in our region could be LSU & Baylor and Lamar as a 4 seed would also be a tough draw (but I'd take them in our group with a good chance to knock off a host in the first round for us)

From the April 26 rankings:

5 TCU
8 Texas Tech
10 Oklahoma
14 Texas A&M
15 Oklahoma State
18 Texas
19 Arkansas
23 Tulsa
26 Rice University
27 Stanford University
28 SMU
31 Tulane University
36 LSU
42 Baylor University
55 Lamar University
64 New Mexico

(04-25-2016 09:59 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  For the women, we'll be a 3 seed and might have to travel further since there's fewer top 16 teams in our area right now.
Playing at Texas A&M, OSU, and (again) Texas Tech would be our best chances to play in state or relatively nearby.

From the April 26 rankings:

6 Vanderbilt University
12 Stanford
15 Oklahoma State University
17 LSU
18 Texas A&M University
19 Texas Tech University
24 University of Texas at Austin
29 University of Tulsa
32 University of Arkansas
35 TCU
39 Baylor University
40 Princeton University
41 Rice University
42 University of Mississippi
46 FIU
52 Harvard University
54 University of Alabama
55 University of South Alabama
56 University of New Mexico
64 University of Texas at Arlington
67 Old Dominion University
68 University of North Texas

Quote:Rice tennis fans are invited to join with the members of the Owls men's and women's teams in the R Room at Rice Stadium Tuesday, May 3 for the announcement of the 2016 NCAA Championship brackets. The event will begin at 3:30 prior to the start of the NCAA selection shows at 4 p.m.

Women
Clemson
Rice

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
#6 Vanderbilt

(05-03-2016 04:10 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Women
Clemson
Rice

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
#6 Vanderbilt

Will the Rice-Clemson match be held at Vanderbilt? (It was not stated directly in the very-sparingly-worded broadcast, although the announcer did say that said that Vandy would be hosting its match with SIUE.)

(05-03-2016 04:16 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(05-03-2016 04:10 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Women
Clemson
Rice

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
#6 Vanderbilt

Will the Rice-Clemson match be held at Vanderbilt? (It was not stated directly in the very-sparingly-worded broadcast, although the announcer did say that said that Vandy would be hosting its match with SIUE.)

Yes it will be in Nashville. 16 regional hosts.

Full women's bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/tennis-women/d1

Men
Rice
LSU

Jackson St.
#4 TCU

(05-03-2016 04:38 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Men
Rice
LSU

Jackson St.
#4 TCU

Our men have a 5-7 record vs tournament teams:

Wins: LSU, SMU, Texas Tech, UT-Arlington & Tulane
Losses: TCU, Texas, Lamar, Texas A&M, San Diego, Stanford & Northwestern.

Go Owls!!

(05-03-2016 04:38 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Men
Rice
LSU

Jackson St.
#4 TCU

We were pretty even with LSU at home. Should be a good match. TCU smoked us on their court at the beginning of April so that's a tough draw.

(05-03-2016 04:31 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Full women's bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/tennis-women/d1

Our ladies have a 2-7 record versus tournament teams:

Wins: Texas & Tulsa
Losses: LSU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Princeton & Virginia Tech

Go Owls!!

Bennett and Warren make the men's doubles tournament.
Ip and Smith make the women's doubles tournament.
Ip will also be in the singles tournament.

(05-04-2016 09:15 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Bennett and Warren make the men's doubles tournament.
Ip and Smith make the women's doubles tournament.
Ip will also be in the singles tournament.

Awesome! And correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like our biggest singles/doubles delegation at the NCAA tournament in quite a while.

In any case, congrats and GO OWLS!

(05-05-2016 12:34 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(05-04-2016 09:15 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Bennett and Warren make the men's doubles tournament.
Ip and Smith make the women's doubles tournament.
Ip will also be in the singles tournament.

Awesome! And correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like our biggest singles/doubles delegation at the NCAA tournament in quite a while.

Checking the men's & women's online history docs, I see that we've last had three NCAA tennis qualifiers in 2008 (Christoph Müller and Bruno Rosa in men's singles, and Ralph Knupfer & Christoph Müller in men's doubles).

In 2003, we had four NCAA qualifiers: Richard Barker, William Barker and Robert Searle in men's singles, and Richard & William Barker in men's doubles (#1 seed ).

We've also had three NCAA qualifiers in:

2004: Richard Barker and Robert Searle in men's singles, and Richard & William Barker in men's doubles (#1 seed ).
1986: Scott Melville in men's singles, Wendy Wood in women's singles, and Lori Cronk & Wendy Wood in women's doubles.
1985: Scott Melville in men's singles, Scott Melville & Andrew Taylor in men's doubles, and Wendy Wood in women's singles.

Of course, the current NCAA tournament structure is different from Rice's glory days of the 1930s -- NCAA singles champions in 1935 (Wilber Hess) and 1938 & 1939 (Frank Guernsey) -- and 1964-71, when the Owls has 13 All-Americans: Jim Parker-1964; John Pickens-1965/66; Mike Hamilton-1967; Butch Seewagen-1967/68; Mike Estep-1969/70/71; Zan Guerry-1969/70/71 and Harold Solomon-1971.