{"id":46223,"date":"2018-05-02T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46223"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:05:46","slug":"ole-miss-mens-tennis-receives-25th-straight-ncaa-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-mens-tennis-receives-25th-straight-ncaa-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis Receives 25th\u00a0Straight NCAA Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Rebels to Face Duke in First Round in Palo Alto<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>University, Miss. \u2013 <\/strong><strong>Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis<\/strong> earned its 25th\u00a0consecutive <strong>NCAA<\/strong> bid, as the NCAA announced the 64-team bracket Tuesday. The Rebels will head to <strong>Palo Alto, California,<\/strong> where they will face Duke<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in the first round\u00a0May 12 at noon CT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Stanford<\/strong>, the No. 4 overall seed, is hosting the first two rounds and will face <strong>New Mexico State\u00a0<\/strong>in the first round. The winners will meet in the second round\u00a0May 13 at 4 pm CT\u00a0for a berth in the <strong>Sweet Sixteen<\/strong> in <strong>Winston Salem, North Carolina<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Quick Hits\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This marks the 27th<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>overall NCAA appearance for the Rebels. Ole Miss owns the fifth-longest consecutive NCAA appearance streak in the nation with 25 straight. The Rebels earned their first-ever NCAA bid in 1989 and then again in 1992 and 1994. They have been every year since then.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u2022 The Rebels are led by senior <strong>Gustav Hansson<\/strong>, who hopes to return to the lineup for the first time since\u00a0March 16. He is ranked No. 44 in the latest Oracle\/ITA Rankings.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u2022 Sophomore <strong>Tim Sandkaule<\/strong>n is ranked No. 31 in singles and twice in doubles at No. 17 with <strong>Fabian Fallert<\/strong> and No. 46 with <strong>Grey Hamilton<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u2022 Duke owns a 16-13 overall record and is led by No. 17 ranked <strong>Nicolas Alvarez<\/strong> at No. 1 singles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss has faced Duke six times, going 2-4 against the <strong>Blue Devils<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>At the Net with Head Coach Toby Hansson\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are excited about the opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament for the 25<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">th\u00a0straight time. The guys deserve this, because they have been working hard the entire season to put ourselves in this position. We\u2019re going to go out to Palo Alto and play our best tennis and enjoy it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>On Playing Duke\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt should be a very even match. They have a good team and so do we. We\u2019re expecting a tough match, but if we come out and play hard like we always do, I like our chances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Senior Grey Hamilton\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt will definitely be cool to go back to California. We all enjoyed our trip to California last year as well as the year before, so I think we are all looking forward to going back for the third year in a row.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>On Playing Duke\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am familiar with Duke, I know a lot of the guys from growing up in North Carolina and playing junior tennis against them. We played them two years ago at the National Team Indoor, but obviously both teams are a little bit different now. 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