MEN'S BRACKET
No. 3 Ohio State 4, No. 6 Baylor 1
Key matches: OSU rolled at Nos. 3 and 5, losing only three games total in the two matches. Justin Kronauge, ranked No. 25, beat unranked Julian Bey 6-1, 6-0, while No. 74 Balazs Novak beat Attila Bucko 6-0, 6-2. Ohio State had lost in the quarterfinals the previous three years.
Ohio State on the match: "I'm not trying to be arrogant, but when I looked down, in no time we were up 6-1 and 6-0. That's a lot of pressure off of a lot of guys. Baylor is an unbelievable program along with Georgia. From 2000 to now, who's been better than Baylor, other than Georgia?" coach Ty Tucker said.
Baylor on the match: "They are very strong at two positions and doubles is not one of their obvious strengths so that was a point we thought we had a chance to get. We've played them twice now and it's 11-1," coach Matt Knoll said.
Records: Ohio State 35-1; Baylor 26-6
Next: Ohio State vs. UCLA, semifinals, 1 p.m. Monday
No. 7 UCLA 4, No. 2 Mississippi 3
Key match: UCLA's Nick Meister came back from losing the first set 6-3 to win a tiebreaker in the second set against Mississippi's Marcel Thiesmann. With every match finished and the score tied at 3-3, Meister and Thiesmann held serve until 3-3. There were then three consecutive breaks before Meister finished it out at love.
UCLA on the match: "Meister has won five or six last-match third sets for us, as just a sophomore. I felt fairly confident that he'd want to be there," coach Billy Martin said.
Mississippi on the match: "We felt that before the season started, and most of the coaches agreed, that UCLA was the most talented team in the country, and they showed that today," coach Billy Chadwick said.
Records: UCLA 21-4; Mississippi 27-3
No. 8 Southern Cal 4, No. 1 Virginia 1
Key match: The No. 2 doubles match, which was played Saturday before the rain postponed play. Southern Cal's Abdullah Magdas and David Nguyen won the first five points of a tiebreaker and held on to win 7-5, giving the Trojans the doubles point.
Southern Cal on the match: "No matter what, I kept thinking, 'I'm sleeping better than Brian [Virginia coach Boland, after having to wait a day to play singles because of the rain]. We're out there playing at 9 o'clock, 7 a.m. Pacific time, and you just have to roll with it," coach Peter Smith said.
Virginia on the match: "We've been back here now our sixth straight year and it never gets easier. They both [losses as No. 1] hurt. It's really, really disappointing we are sitting here again in a similar situation, but that's sports," Boland said.
Records: USC 23-5; Virginia 32-1.
Next: Southern Cal vs. Texas, semifinals, 1 p.m., Monday
WOMEN'S BRACKET
No. 5 Notre Dame 4, No. 4 Baylor 3
Key match: Baylor's Csilla Borsanyi found herself as the last match on court for the second consecutive time. Borsanyi finished off Stanford's Veronica Li, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 at 2:10 a.m Saturday after the match was pushed back because of the power outage. On Sunday, Notre Dame's Shannon Matthews lost the first set to Borsanyi but rallied for a 6-3, 6-4 victory. The team match lasted just shy of 5 hours.
Notre Dame on the match: "I told her [Matthews] afterward that's where legends are made. She did an unbelievable job. You ought to be talking to her, not me," coach Jay Louderback said.
Baylor on the match: "Sometimes matches are like a puzzle and you are tying to figure out the puzzle, and unfortunately and I didn't figure it out until much too late and she was in too much of a hole. To her credit she battled in the last set and made it close," said coach Joey Scrivano of Borsanyi falling behind 4-0 in the final set.
Records: Notre Dame 28-4; Baylor 27-5.
Next: Notre Dame vs. California, semifinals, 4 p.m. Monday.
No. 8 California 4, No. 1 Northwestern 2
Key match: Cal has five singles players ranked in the top 54, but it was Marina Cossou and doubles specialist Claire Ilcinkas, who put Cal up 1-0 with a 7-5 tiebreaker win at No. 2 doubles.
Records: California 21-4; Northwestern, 28-2.
No. 3 Duke 4, No. 6 Miami 1
Key match: After losing the last two times to Miami's Michaela Kissell and falling behind 4-0 on Sunday, Amanda Granson won 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 to put Duke up 3-1.
Duke on the match: Even Paige [Yaroshuk-Tews, Miami coach] turned to me during the middle of the match and said, 'You guys are playing really well right now,'" coach Jamie Ashworth said.
Miami on the match: "They were playing the big points well, the deuce points, our ads, never kind of giving us a window. There is not a whole lot to say other than they simply outplayed us today," Yaroshuk-Tews said.
Records: Duke, 27-3; Miami 26-5.
Next: Duke vs. Georgia, semifinals, 4 p.m., Monday.
No. 2 Georgia 4, South Carolina 3
Key match: With the team match tied 3-3, No. 56 Nadia Gilchrist outlasted unranked Dijana Stojic 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 to lift Georgia.
Georgia on the match: "You have to say that South Carolina was kind of the Cinderella team here and played absolutely unbelievable, and we just barely escaped them. I take my hat off to them," coach Jeff Wallace said.
South Carolina on the match: "People thought we didn't belong here, but I think from this match that we showed we did belong. We used to be satisfied with winning a round in the regional tournament and now they're really mad that they lost in the quarters," coach Arlo Elkins said.
Records: Georgia, 27-3; South Carolina 17-11
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