In the doubles draw, the Crimson's top doubles team of Arnold and Tseng was seeded sixth but lost in the third round to the tenth-seeded Rutgers team.

Hausman and Blake were seeded twelfth in the draw but managed to advace to the semifinals before losing to the top seeded team from Miami.

Miami, which was making its first appearance in the recently-realigned Eastern Region, dominated the tournament, winning both the singles and doubles crowns.

The Hurricanes, who are ranked 12th in the nation, pose the biggest obstacle to the Crimson's path to an NCAA bid this spring.

In this weekend's action, the ECAC Champion Crimson squad fared poorly against its most powerful regional rival.

Tseng, Hausman and Chung were all eliminated by Miami players as was the Hausman-Blake doubles team.

Still, many on the Crimson squad were not impressed.

"I expected them to be a lot better," Chung said. "They were definitely beatable."

The Crimson's line-up was hurt by the absence of junior Todd Meringoff, who was sidelined by a lingering groin injury.

Meringoff, the two-time defending Rolex Eastern Regional Champion, has seen limited action this fall but should be back in the line-up for the spring campaign.

The tournament market the end of the fall season for the Crimson--a season which saw them successfully defend their ECAC crown.

The Crimson, however, did not receive the sole eastern region bid to the Rolex Indoor Team Championships. The bid was awarded, instead, to Miami, by virtue of its higher national ranking.

The Crimson will most likely get a chance to dethrone the Hurricanes in the spring and earn a bid to the NCAA tournament.

"We have gobs of talent," Rueb said. "If we work well over the winter we can make ourselves into a top-ten team and that's the direction we're heading right now."