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Compare that to the tournament's seeds: 6 from the ACC, 4 from the SEC, 2 from the Big 12, and 1 each from the Pac-12, Big Ten, Ivy League, and WCC. Fair to say that the Pac-12 has overperformed expectations!

Well, at least in singles. In team play, Final Four were 2 ACC, 2 Big 12, and Elite Eight were 4 ACC, 2 Big 12, 1 SEC, and 1 WCC.  So where it counted most PAC-12 washed out, more or less as seedings would have predicted.

Oh, for sure. What I expected to be a great year for the Pac-12 was absolutely a letdown. But so far, this is something of a silver lining, at least!

Ma's match has started on Court 3, for those who are interested. Very windy in Champaign today. She broke Ewing on deciding point and then held for 2-0, and then Ma broke on another deciding point on Ewing's serve, and it's 3-0 Ma in the early going.

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Then Ma has an awful service game and she's broken at love for a 3-1 lead before Ewing consolidates for 3-2. Ma is still up a break, but some streaky tennis so far.

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What a service game from Ma there. Great movement, clean strokes, and she had Ewing all over the court. Painting the lines for a 4-2 lead. But still a double fault mixed in and some frustrating misses on her first serve, but both players are struggling with the wind on their tosses and adjusting to it. This is not a day for lobs or big tosses, to be sure. Then Ma delivered a really sharp return game and she's back up a double break at 5-2 in the first.

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One thing I've noticed about Ma is that she calls a generous line. There have been numerous times this season where a ball looked just out to me but she plays on. A handful of examples of that today, but it hasn't hurt her--she's won each of the points where I thought she could've called an earlier ball out. Anyway, she holds easily and wins the first set 6-2.

[ColoradoTree]

Compare that to the tournament's seeds: 6 from the ACC, 4 from the SEC, 2 from the Big 12, and 1 each from the Pac-12, Big Ten, Ivy League, and WCC. Fair to say that the Pac-12 has overperformed expectations!

Well, at least in singles. In team play, Final Four were 2 ACC, 2 Big 12, and Elite Eight were 4 ACC, 2 Big 12, 1 SEC, and 1 WCC.  So where it counted most PAC-12 washed out, more or less as seedings would have predicted.

Oh, for sure. What I expected to be a great year for the Pac-12 was absolutely a letdown. But so far, this is something of a silver lining, at least!

Ma's match has started on Court 3, for those who are interested. Very windy in Champaign today. She broke Ewing on deciding point and then held for 2-0, and then Ma broke on another deciding point on Ewing's serve, and it's 3-0 Ma in the early going.

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Then Ma has an awful service game and she's broken at love for a 3-1 lead before Ewing consolidates for 3-2. Ma is still up a break, but some streaky tennis so far.

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What a service game from Ma there. Great movement, clean strokes, and she had Ewing all over the court. Painting the lines for a 4-2 lead. But still a double fault mixed in and some frustrating misses on her first serve, but both players are struggling with the wind on their tosses and adjusting to it. This is not a day for lobs or big tosses, to be sure. Then Ma delivered a really sharp return game and she's back up a double break at 5-2 in the first.

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One thing I've noticed about Ma is that she calls a generous line. There have been numerous times this season where a ball looked just out to me but she plays on. A handful of examples of that today, but it hasn't hurt her--she's won each of the points where I thought she could've called an earlier ball out. Anyway, she holds easily and wins the first set 6-2.