02-12-2019, 03:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2019, 03:55 PM by ColoradoTree.)
Jokic dominates the tiebreaker, and wins over Jones 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (2), to give Georgia the ITA National Women's Team Indoor Championship by a 4-3 score.
If we had to lose, then at least we lost to the ultimate champions, right?
Hats off to Georgia, who lost the doubles point in three consecutive matches and pulled out 4-3 wins over the top 3 teams in the country--#2 Vanderbilt, then #1 Stanford, then #3 UNC. They'll be #1 with a bullet in the new ITA team rankings that come out tomorrow.
Georgia is already trumpeting its "sixth national championship in program history."
Uhh, folks, that's not a thing. There is one national championship per season, it's played outdoors, it's run by the NCAA, and it's the last thing we do all season, not as an optional indoors tournament before conference play even starts. Georgia has won two national championships, in 1994 and 2000. I can't even tell you how many Stanford has won if we start counting National Indoors on the same level as NCAAs, but it's more than the 19 we currently have.
Sure, this tournament is a big deal, I'm glad we played in it, and Georgia is rightly thrilled about winning it. But counting it the same as a season-ending NCAA title is just ridiculous.
If we had to lose, then at least we lost to the ultimate champions, right?
Hats off to Georgia, who lost the doubles point in three consecutive matches and pulled out 4-3 wins over the top 3 teams in the country--#2 Vanderbilt, then #1 Stanford, then #3 UNC. They'll be #1 with a bullet in the new ITA team rankings that come out tomorrow.
Georgia is already trumpeting its "sixth national championship in program history."
Uhh, folks, that's not a thing. There is one national championship per season, it's played outdoors, it's run by the NCAA, and it's the last thing we do all season, not as an optional indoors tournament before conference play even starts. Georgia has won two national championships, in 1994 and 2000. I can't even tell you how many Stanford has won if we start counting National Indoors on the same level as NCAAs, but it's more than the 19 we currently have.
Sure, this tournament is a big deal, I'm glad we played in it, and Georgia is rightly thrilled about winning it. But counting it the same as a season-ending NCAA title is just ridiculous.