Georgia Captures ITA Team Indoor National Championship:: georgiadogs.collegesports.com

Georgia Captures ITA Team Indoor National Championship:: georgiadogs.collegesports.com ~~~

I spent several hours this weekend going through my digital photos, backing up my computer and trying to solve an ipod malfunction. Not very exciting stuff, but the fact that I could listen to the live webcast of the USTA/ITA Men's Indoor at radiotennis.com made it more fun than it sounds.

Ken Thomas, who IS radiotennis.com, never lacks for opinions, but he's so charming, you can only disagree with him, you can't dislike him. He said several times that he thought Illinois and Georgia were the best teams in the competition, and their 4-3 semifinal battle gives credence to that opinion. The only disappointment was that Ken had to leave to return to Southern California and his day job, so the singles of the Georgia/Illinois semifinal and the final between Georgia and Pepperdine were not webcast. (He'll be back at it this weekend though at the qualifying in Las Vegas for the Tennis Channel Open).

With as storied a program as Georgia's, it is a bit surprising that the Bulldogs had never won this National Indoor title before. They will be ranked number one when the new rankings come out Wednesday; current number one Florida lost twice in Seattle and will fall out of the top five. But as any college coach will tell you, the three months between now and the NCAAs is a very long time.