NCAA D1 Tennis Committee Meeting Recap

A few months back the NCAA Division 1 Men's and Women's Tennis Committee had its annual meeting to discuss different topics/items for the upcoming season.  The information is available to the general public on ncaa.org but it can be tough to find so I figured I'd share the report here and talk about some of the interesting things that they discussed.

Below are the conferences whose champions are guaranteed a bid into the 64-team NCAA Tournament.  The Southland (Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Lamar, New Orleans, Nicholls St, Abilene Christian, Incarnate Word) was granted a waiver to get a bid despite only having 4 eligible teams last season. Both Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word recently made the move from Division 2 to Division 1 and thus are ineligible for postseason play until the 2017-18 season.

In its review of the 2015 NCAA Championships they talked about needing to spruce up the selection show with more commentary about specific match-ups.  They also mentioned that travel distance and conference opponent restrictions played a role in where teams were placed in the bracket (not new).