2019 B1G Volleyball Thread

[MarqHusker]

Baylor knocks off Texas in Waco tonight (5 sets).   
Barring something strange happening in the final week, I'd say Baylor and Texas have 2/4 regional host gigs locked down.

Probably a cluster of Pitt/Stanford/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Nebraska/Kentucky fighting for other two.  

[utee94]

Golderned baptists!

[utee94]

How do you keep a Baptist from drinking all of your beer on a fishing trip?

Invite another Baptist!

[FearlessF]

• The No. 6 Nebraska volleyball team hits the road for a pair of top-10 Big Ten matches this weekend. The Huskers will face No. 7 Minnesota on Friday at 8 p.m. at Maturi Pavilion. Then on Sunday, the Big Red travels to No. 5 Wisconsin for a 1:30 p.m. matinee against the league-leading Badgers at the Wisconsin Field House. Both matches will be televised on BTN and streamed on FoxSports.com and the FoxSports app.

• At 15-1, Wisconsin leads the Big Ten standings with four matches to go. Nebraska and Minnesota are tied with Penn State for second place with 14-2 conference records. Penn State hosts both Wisconsin and Minnesota the last weekend of the season.

[FearlessF]

Huskers over the gophers in 5 sets

great match

[MarqHusker]

Weird match.  Nebraska cruised early and then Cook benches about everybody in the 4th when they looked like a bad club team.   A smoke fest in the fifth.    15-3. Madi Kubik is a helluva freshman, playing six rotations.  She s got every swing in her arsenal.  I still don't have deep tourney hopes for this team, but they've got a nice group of young kids.

[FearlessF]

gotta luv those big hitters from Iowa!

[Brutus Buckeye]

Dayton wound up with the 2 seed in the Atlantic 10 Tourney, after coming up on the short end of a 5 setter vs VCU on Sunday.

Here's the Atlantic 10 Bracket: https://atlantic10.com/documents/2019/11/17//2019VB_bracket.pdf?id=7015

We will sneak at least one team into this tourney.

[Brutus Buckeye]

NCAA D3 Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/volleyball-women/d3/2019

The Chicago Maroons made it. So did Johns Hopkins. Big Ten, represent!

From Ohio: Ohio Northern, Otterbein, Wittenberg, Muskingum

Johns Hopkins wins the D3 NCG.

[Brutus Buckeye]

It was the Badgers.

[FearlessF]

LINCOLN, Neb. - The No. 6 Nebraska volleyball team completed the regular season with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-19) victory against Ohio State in front of 8,170 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday night.

NU finished the regular season at 25-4 overall and 17-3 in the Big Ten, which put them in a three-way tie for second place in the final standings with Penn State and Minnesota, one game behind league champion Wisconsin.

[FearlessF]

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska volleyball team was selected as the No. 5 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night and will host the NCAA Tournament first and second rounds at the Bob Devaney Sports Center next weekend.

The Huskers, making their 38th straight NCAA Tournament appearance, will open the tournament on Friday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. against the Ball State Cardinals (20-11), champions of the Mid-American Conference. The 4:30 p.m. match will feature the Northern Iowa Panthers (24-10) of the Missouri Valley Conference and the Missouri Tigers (21-7) of the SEC. Friday's winners will meet on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m.

Baylor, Texas, Stanford and Wisconsin received the top four seeds from the NCAA Tournament committee. Should those teams all advance past the first weekend, they would host an NCAA regional the following weekend. Nebraska is in Wisconsin's region along with No. 12 national seed Hawaii and No. 13 Texas A&M. The Huskers would only have an opportunity to host an NCAA regional if they advance past the opening two rounds and Wisconsin gets upset in the first or second round.

[MarqHusker]

Committee was very very kind to BIG.  Illinois scrapes in, Nebraska gets a 5? How?  Wtf.  Pitt bumped to a 6 and may face PSU a third time in regionals.   

Some interesting  2nd round matches shaping up for those of us who follow.  I've been less in tune this year w various life distractions but should be dialed in for this.  I see NET streaming 1st/2nd rd. Nobody produces better vball for broadcast than NET.

I like the possibility of a Hawai'I Nebraska SW16 match.  Haven't played much lately. Two wild fanbases would make for an endless internet thread.

[Brutus Buckeye]

OSU must have turned down their Auto-bid to the NIVC like a bunch of chumps.

Dayton, Wright St and Cincy are in the NCAA Tourney. Miami and Bowling Green in the NIVC.