2023 Volleyball Thread

[FearlessF]

tough to go undefeated with or W/O service errors

[MarqHusker]

NCAA tournament begins tonight.

BIG with a modest five participants this year.   N, UW, PU, PSU and MN.  Not very good RPI schedule strategies by mid and lowers.
ESPN continues their braindead 1st/2nd rd coverage on espn+ only. I think UT v A&M is on Bevo TV tonight.

Top four seeds earn regional hosting opportunity.  If they advance to S16, they host regionals.  FF in Tampa.
Top 4 seeds in each
Nebraska has Kentucky, Arkansas and Florida 
Pittsburgh has, Louisville, Creighton, Wazzu  (Minnesota in this bracket)
Stanford has Texas, Tennessee, and BYU
Wisconsin has Oregon, Purdue and Kansas (Penn St in this bracket)

[utee94]

Horns gig the ags in 4.  Tomorrow against the ponies who probably won't play as tough at the net.  Should be fun.

[MarqHusker]

Espn puts up LaCrosse tonight over vball. 2nd round  ....

Numb nuts. 

[MarqHusker]

pretty chalky S16, a couple of 5s over the 4s, otherwise all chalk.

Thursday/Saturday Regionals.  TV TBD at this point.

Nebraska:
Kentucky v Arkansas
Georgia Tech v Nebraska

Pittsburgh
Louisville v Creighton
Wazzu v Pittsburgh

Wisconsin
Purdue v Oregon
Penn St. v Wisconsin

Stanford
Tennessee v Texas
Arizona St v Stanford

[MarqHusker]

Thursday.

Creighton-Louisville: 11am CT - ESPN2
Nebraska-Georgia Tech: 1pm CT - ESPN2

DAY/WSU-Pitt: 1:30 PM CT - ESPNU
Arkansas-Kentucky: 3:30pm CT - ESPNU

Penn St-Wisconsin: 6pm CT - ESPN2
Texas-Tennessee: 8pm CT ESPN2

Oregon-Purdue: 8:30pm CT - ESPNU
Stanford-Arizona State: 10:30pm CT - ESPNU

[MarqHusker]

Tennessee and Texas played for 3 hours and 9 minutes.  It was not a very nice viewing experience.

Elite Eight Regional Finals for WVB, Saturday, eastern time on espnu
Super chalky. 

Louisville at Pitt, 4pm
Arkansas at Nebraska, 6pm
Oregon at Wisconsin, 8pm
Texas at Stan, 10pm

[utee94]

I couldn't stay awake for the whole match.  Glad the Horns won but with Stanford up next this is likely the end of the line.

[MarqHusker]

I threw in the towel after set 3 of Stanford match.  That must have ended after 3am est thanks to the Interrupted flow of Tennessee v Texas 

[SFBadger96]

Badgers are a much better squad with Smrek in the lineup.

All the games left are good ones, fo sho.

[utee94]

Final 4 is set in Tampa.

Hi, badger fans!


https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1733717066341908537/photo/1

[MarqHusker]

Someone I know said, the four most hatable coaches in volleyball are left. 

Pretty sure I could talk myself into picking any of these four to win.

[FearlessF]

I think Wisconsin is a touch matchup for Nebraska

[Brutus Buckeye]

Uh... I guess I'm pulling for Pitt? I dunno.