U-M to Square Off with Ohio State in NCAA Elite Eight

U-M to Square Off with Ohio State in NCAA Elite Eight

THIS WEEK

Thursday, May 19 — vs. #4 Ohio State – NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals (Champaign, Ill.) 7 p.m., CDT

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Saturday, May 21 — NCAA Tournament Semifinal – 10 a.m./1 p.m., CDT

Sunday, May 22 — NCAA Tournament Final – 3 p.m., CDT

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The No. 5-ranked University of Michigan men’s tennis team will head to the NCAA Tournament Championship this week, reaching the Elite Eight for the first time in 34 years. The Wolverines will face familiar foe No. 4 Ohio State in the quarterfinals, a matchup of the No. 4 and 5 seeds, on Thursday (May 19) at 7 p.m. CDT in Champaign, Ill. The match will be streamed live on the TennisOne app.

Wolverine Bites

• Michigan advances to the NCAA Quarterfinals after a 4-2 win over Texas in the Super Regional in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines also posted back-to-back 4-0 sweeps in the first and second rounds over Western Michigan and Oklahoma.

• Michigan won the NCAA championship in 1957 and placed in the top 10 five times before the format changed in 1979. Since that time, the Wolverines have made the Elite Eight just once in 1988 when they were in the Final Four.

• This is the sixth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance for the Wolverines and 31st appearance in program history.

• Michigan is the NCAA Tournament’s No. 5 seed and is ranked No. 5 in the latest ITA computerized ranking. That matches the highest ranking the team has earned this season. The Wolverines are No. 2 in the USTA/Tennis Channel poll.

• Six Wolverines are ranked in singles including: No. 27 Ondrej Styler, No. 63 Andrew Fenty, No. 70 Jacob Bickersteth, No. 77 Nino Ehrenschneider, No. 88 Patrick Maloney and No. 110 Gavin Young. Michigan also has two ranked doubles: No. 24 Fenty/Ehrenschneider and No. 29 Styler/Young.

• Ondrej Styler was selected for the NCAA Singles Championships and Andrew Fenty was named an alternate. This will mark Styler’s first appearance, while Fenty competed in 2019. Styler and Gavin Young, and Fenty and Nino Ehrenschneider were chosen for the NCAA Doubles Championships. This is the…