B1G Tennis Tournament Championship Match
Here is the link to the live scoring of the event.
http://www.nusports.com/sports/w-tennis/spec-rel/nw-w-tennis-livestats…
Somehow, in 2015, the B1G is unable to televise, or even live stream, a tournament championshiop. I'm sure they'll say that they aren't able to get camera crews to the event, despite it being held just outside the 3rd largest city in the country.
Michigan takes 2 of the 3 doubles matches (all 3 went down to the wire) to take the 1-0 lead in the match.
Michigan is #12 in the nation with a 23-3 record; Ohio State is ranked #18 at 20-5. The last time these two teams met, Michigan won 5 of the 6 singles points plus the doubles point for the 6-1 win. Michigan needs 3 of the 6 singles points today to bring home the championship.
Most of the singles matches were close last time, but Michigan pulled them out. Hopefully, the ladies stay strong. It looks like it will be a tough match to close out.
It's been a very long time since Michigan Athletics has won a B1G Tournament.
You have to go back to 2010 when Men's Soccer and Field Hockey both won their B1G Tournaments on the same day.
In what way are those tournaments?
April 26th, 2015 at 10:18 PM ^
I guess they are one meet tournaments, that's kind of a semantic point you're making.
The fact is Michigan gym won the regular season championship and after that reg season schedule was over they had a seperate league championship which was determined by the teams competing in a championship meet.
This is from the Mgoblue story on the reg season title:
"With the win, Michigan captures the 2015 Big Ten regular-season championship and earns a berth into the second session for next Saturday's Big Ten Championships at Crisler Center."
BIg Ten reg season champs, then on to the Big Ten Championships, which they also won.
Michigan wins the first set in 5 of the 6 singles matches--every court except for #5, which is also the one point Ohio State took in the meet a couple of weeks ago.
They just need to hold on to win at least 3 of those 5.
Singles points from Betkas and Yurovsky make it 3-0 Michigan!!!!!
Finish them.
It's looking like #4 singles could be the spot to do it....
There it is...Sarah Lee clinched it!!
After 10 straight years of losing in the championship match, Michigan FINALLY comes through and wins the B1G Tournament.
The first in program history. 6 straight B1G Championships and now a B1G Tournament Championship.
Finally, Michigan wears the tournament crown! It was a long & frustrating wait - I'm sure much more so for the coaching staff and players - during much of which we've been obviously the best team in the conference, but not able to clinch the tournament title. Now finally we've got that as well, a school-record winning streak, and are poised to make a nice NCAA run as well. One of the best years in program history already - here's hoping it becomes THE best!
Go fuckin' Blue!!!
May this ending of the B1G Tournament title drought in Michigan Athletics open the floodgates for more B1G Tournament Championships across all Michigan sports in addition to B1G Regular Season Championships.
But the gym girls already undroughted us as was pointed out above.
That wasn't a tournament. It was a championship meet.
I get the semantics, but let's just call it a postseason conference championship. That would be inclusive of all sports with either a championship game/meet/match or tournament.
Congrats and Go Blue!
Jedd FischCongrats @umichtennis another big 10 championship - Regular Season and Tourney! Coach Ronnie..who's got it better than you...Nooooobody!!