Michigan Heads to Wake Forest for Remainder of NCAA Tournament

» Michigan has advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2008 and the fifth time in program history.
» U-M will square off with No. 2 UCLA in the round of 16 on Friday at 10:15 a.m.
» The Wolverines are 6-0 in singles action during the NCAA Tournament, led by 2-0 marks from Mattias Siimar and Davis Crocker. Myles Schalet and Carter Lin are each 1-0 after the first weekend of action.

THIS WEEK
Friday, May 18 -- vs. No. 2 UCLA (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 10:15 a.m. *
Sunday, May 20 -- Quarterfinals (Winston-Salem, N.C.), noon **
Monday, May 21 -- Semifinals (Winston-Salem, N.C.), 4 p.m. **
Tuesday, May 22 -- National Championship (Winston-Salem, N.C.), 5 p.m. **
* time changed/moved indoors to University of North Carolina
** if Michigan advances

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 15-ranked University of Michigan men's tennis team (22-5) will face No. 2-ranked UCLA (28-2) in the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 on Friday (May 18) at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at 10:15 a.m. The match was moved indoors to the University of North Carolina due to weather conditions.

• Michigan has advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2008 and the fifth time in program history after a 4-0 win over No. 25 Notre Dame on Sunday (May 13) at the Varsity Tennis Center.

• The Wolverines are making their 29th overall, and third straight, NCAA Tournament appearance. U-M is 15-28 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and has advanced to the Sweet 16 five times. The Wolverines made their deepest run in the team-tournament format (adopted in 1977) in 1988 when it advanced to the Final Four round.

• The winner of Friday's (May 18) match will face the winner of No. 7 North Carolina vs. No. 10 Southern California on Sunday (May 20) at noon in the quarterfinals.

• The Wolverines are looking for their first win over UCLA in school history. The Bruins have won the previous five matches between the schools with its last matchup coming in 1989. The programs have met in the NCAA Team Tournament two times before (1981, 1983), with UCLA winning both matches 6-3 and 5-2, respectively. The Bruins enter Friday's match with a 28-2 record after a 4-0 win over San Diego in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

• Through two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, Michigan is 6-0 on the singles court. Freshman Mattias Siimar and senior Davis Crocker are 2-0, with junior Myles Schalet and Carter Lin sporting a 1-0 record. U-M boasts a 4-1 record on the doubles courts in tournament play, with the duos of Schalet and sophomore Connor Johnston, and senior Alex Knight and freshman Harrison Brown both at 2-0 heading into the weekend.

• The Maize and Blue is in the midst of its third consecutive and seventh overall 20-win season, heading to Winston-Salem with a 22-5 record. Of Michigan's five losses, four are to teams currently ranked in the top 10 -- No. 3 Ohio State, No. 6 North Carolina and No. 9 Illinois (twice), with its other loss coming to No. 13 Florida. Of U-M's 20 wins, five have come against top-30 competition (current ranking) - No. 21 Memphis, No. 25 Notre Dame (twice), No. 28 Duke and No. 29 South Carolina.

• Michigan remained in the top 20 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings heading into the NCAA tournament, coming in at No. 15 this week. The Wolverines have been in the top 20 all season, with their highest ranking being No. 7

• The Maize and Blue has two players in the top 50 heading into the tournament (Knight, 17; Hua, 47) for the second time, and the first since 2007. Michigan also has two doubles pairings ranked this late in the year (Knight/Hua, 23; Hua/Mattias Siimar, 73) for the second straight year.

• Knight and Hua will represent Michigan at the NCAA Individual Championships this year as well, with both qualifying in singles and together in doubles. It is the second year in a row the Wolverines will send a doubles team to the tournament, as Connor Johnston and Jathan Malik qualified last year. This is the first time since 2007 that two singles players will represent the Maize and Blue, when Brian Hung and Matko Maravic qualified. The last U-M player to qualify for the NCAA Individual Championships was Evan King, who made three consecutive tournament appearances (2011-13), making it to the quarterfinals in his senior season.

• Knight and Hua were both named to the All-Big Ten First Team, with Knight a unanimous selection.

• Hua's 23 doubles wins and 22 singles wins, make him the 27th player in Michigan history to join the "20/20 club" for 20 doubles and singles wins in a season.

• Knight joined the "20/20 club" for the second season in a row with a team-leading 25 singles and 25 doubles victories. With his doubles win on Saturday, Knight became just the second player in program history to eclipse 25 wins in both singles and doubles play in one season, joining Matko Maravic (27 singles, 28 doubles in 2007). His 25 doubles wins rank tied for fifth in program history for a single season.

• Freshman Mattias Siimar has a 24-11 record heading into the weekend coming off back-to-back victories. With his 24 singles wins, the Estonia native ranks tied for sixth in program history for wins in a season by a freshman.

• Crocker comes into the tournament with the Wolverines' longest active singles win streak, having won seven straight matches, while sporting an 18-7 record.

• The doubles duo of Knight and Brown holds a team-leading seven-match win streak in doubles play, and have yet to drop a match since teaming together.

• The Wolverines finished the year with a 13-1 home record, and have gone 37-3 at the Varsity Tennis Center over the last three seasons.

NCAA RULES
Each team match will be a contest for the best of seven team points. Doubles action will begin immediately with no warmup, so fans are encouraged to arrive on time for matches. In addition, each doubles match will be one set to six, with a tiebreaker occurring at 6-all. The team that wins two-of-three matches will secure the doubles point. Following a five-minute intermission, singles action will begin with each match worth one point towards the team score. There will be no-ad scoring in both singles and doubles action. In addition, there is to be no noise made between first and second serves this season as part of new ITA sportsmanship guidelines.

WEATHER POLICY
Matches shall be played outdoors unless the projected weather forecast, for a minimum of two hours out of a four-hour time period from the start of the match, according to www.weather.com is: a high of less than 50 degrees or sustained winds (not including wind gusts) of more than 20 miles per hour.