No-ad Out for NCAA Championships in May

The NCAA today announced that the championship cabinet took no action on the Division I tennis committee's scoring format request, meaning the upcoming NCAA team and individual championships hosted by Baylor will use traditional scoring.  Here is the brief email sent to coaches by the NCAA:

Men’s and Women’s Head Tennis Coaches,

Normally, we would prepare a formal memorandum but realize time is of the essence so we provide this brief update:  the Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet took no action on the tennis committee’s scoring format request and will refer the issues to the appropriate championships entity in the new Division I governance structure for consideration. 

For clarification, the scoring format utilized for the 2014 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships, team and individual, will be utilized for the 2015 championships.

As you can see, no reason was given for the decision, but I will add that I received information regarding the survey conducted by the NCAA committee, which showed no-ad to be unpopular with women's coaches, and both men and women student-athletes.  Although what I received was marked draft, and I have not included all of the charts, I believe this to be an accurate representation of the survey. [UPDATE 2-10-15: the complete survey, along with conference format decisions is available here.] I apologize for the photos, but the formatting makes it difficult to display in any other way.

I must admit I don't understand the difference in the student-athletes' numbers in answering the team and individual questions, but maybe I'm not understanding the tables correctly.  Are the 50+ percentages for doubles only?  Anyway, it seems clear that a solid majority of women's coaches are against no-ad, as are student-athletes, with a much less significant majority of men's coaches for no-ad across the board. 

Whether this figured in the committee's decision to take no action isn't known, but it can't help the ITA/USTA's position that there is widespread support for the changes.