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Title: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on July 18, 2018, 11:24:19 PM

The final school (Illinois) finally released its schedule this week. I'll post OOC matches later. This is a home/road grid for conference matches. As usual, unbalanced, and each school has a travel partner. Most matches are back to back, except for a handful weeknight matches. hat tip to huskergeek. Road Team on Y axis, Home Team on the X axis.

Assuming you haven't been paying attention to the offseason. Maryland's coach (Steve Aird) bolted for Indiana, and Maryland promoted an assistant (Adam Hughes) to the top job. IU moves into a new Volleyball/Wrestling facility (and plays all road OOC to ensure its ready). The UW Fieldhouse will open up the upper deck again, yeah! A fair number of transfers (Lexi Sun to Nebraska from UT), and lots of turnover. Media days are in a few weeks. I'm guessing the media projected Top 3 will be Nebraska/Minnesota/UW. PSU and Illinois in the 2nd tier, and then Purdue/MSU/Mich/Ohio St. Rutgers is bringing in 4 international players. Gotta try something.

Home

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Mary

Mich

MSU

Minn

OSU

PSU

Ill

9/22/18

11/4/18

11/21/18

10/12/18

10/27/18

11/14/18

11/2/18

9/21/18

11/17/18

10/13/18

Ind

10/6/18

10/5/18

11/9/18

10/10/18

11/23/18

9/26/18

10/26/18

11/3/18

10/27/18

11/10/18

Iowa

9/28/18

11/16/18

10/28/18

11/10/18

10/19/18

10/3/18

9/30/18

11/17/18

10/10/18

10/21/18

Mary

10/24/18

10/20/18

11/23/18

11/7/18

9/22/18

11/24/18

11/10/18

10/5/18

10/19/18

10/6/18

Mich

10/19/18

10/31/18

9/23/18

10/14/18

11/17/18

9/21/18

10/20/18

10/12/18

11/14/18

11/4/18

MSU

10/20/18

9/21/18

10/12/18

11/24/18

11/3/18

9/22/18

10/19/18

10/14/18

10/31/18

11/14/18

Minn

9/29/18

11/16/18

10/27/18

10/26/18

10/6/18

10/3/18

11/17/18

11/23/18

11/24/18

10/31/18

9/29/18

11/17/18

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10/24/18

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9/21/18

10/24/18

11/2/18

11/21/18

10/13/18

11/4/18

11/17/18

9/22/18

10/12/18

OSU

10/19/18

11/24/18

9/29/18

11/7/18

11/23/18

10/28/18

10/6/18

10/20/18

10/5/18

9/19/18

PSU

11/10/18

11/3/18

9/29/18

9/28/18

9/19/18

11/2/18

11/9/18

9/22/18

10/10/18

10/20/18

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10/13/18

9/26/18

10/5/18

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11/10/18

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9/28/18

9/29/18

11/3/18

11/10/18

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10/3/18

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10/26/18

10/27/18

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9/29/18

11/23/18

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 19, 2018, 08:03:51 AM

It will be OSU's final season in St John, before moving into their new home.

(https://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/osu/sports/w-volley/auto_a_astorywide/12425175.jpeg)

(https://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/osu/sports/w-volley/auto_a_astorywide/12425194.jpeg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on July 19, 2018, 09:08:51 AM

The 2018 Red/White Scrimmage is only one month away! The first look at the defending champs is set for August 18 at 3 p.m.

Arrive early as the 2017 National Championship banner will be unveiled prior to the match! Stick around after the game to get the first look at the new, never before seen NET documentary "Nebraska Volleyball: Culture of a Champion". The film captures the drama of the 2017 national championship season and the history of the rivalry between two powerhouse programs – Penn State and Nebraska.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on July 20, 2018, 12:01:52 AM

Non Conference Schedules for the B1G. Lots of 3 and 4 team mini-events at various locales, lots of day night DHs. These are often carefully curated to boost RPI. Great thing about Women's Vball, the helmets don't duck each other, and even though there are some neutral site games on a campus site, some of these 4 team challenges, rotate to each school over time. B1G/Pac series, VERT sponsors a big one, ACC/B1G.

Illinois	Indiana	Iowa	Maryland	Michigan	Mich State
UNCW 8/24 @FT Coll	@UNLV 8/24	SMU 8/25 @Nash	@ Wake 8/24	High Point 8/25 @Auburn	@Tenn 8/24
@Colo St. 8/24	LIU Bklyn 8/24 @Vegas	Lipscomb 8/25 @Nash	@UNCG 8/25	@Auburn 8/25	Chatt. 8/25 @Knox
No Colo 8/25 @FT Coll	So Utah 8/25 @Vegas	Belmont 8/26 @Nash	Air Force 8/25 @UNCG	Clev St 8/31 AA	Belmont 8/25 @Knox
Colo. 8/31 @Seattle	Tex A&M 8/31 @State College PA	@ Wash 8/31	@Akron 8/31	E Mich 9/1 AA	MD-EastSh 8/31 @UNC
@ Wash 9/1	Temple 9/1 @ State College PA	Colorado 9/1 @Seattle	StonyBrook 9/1 @Akron	Harvard 9/1 AA	UNCG 9/1 @UNC
BGSU 9/7 @Cle	NDSU 9/7 @Muncie	SDSU 9/8 @DesMoines	Canisius 9/1 @ Akron	Valpo 9/4 AA	@UNC 9/1
Clev St 9/7 @Cle	UNI 9/7 @ Muncie	@Drake 9/8	Colgate 9/8 COLLPARK	Oakland 9/7 AA	Northeastern 9/7 @Fair
UC Irv 9/8 @ Cle	@ Ball St 9/8	E. Ill 9/9 CARVER	So Car. 9/8 COLLPARK	LSU 9/7 AA	@ Fairfield 9/7
UNI 9/14 HUFF	@Xavier 9/14	@Iowa St 9/14	Liberty 9/9 COLLPARK	Colo St 9/8 AA	Harvard 9/8 @Fairfield
Lipscomb 9/15 HUFF	@ Cincy 9/14	Wyo. 9/15 @Ames	New Hamp 9/14 @Philly	Notre Dame 9/14 CRISLER	Central Conn 9/8 @F
Creighton 9/15 HUFF	E. KY 9/15 @Cincy	Cuse 9/15 @Ames	@ Temple 9/14	@Notre Dame 9/16	Albany 9/14 EL
			Princeton 9/15 @Philly		UAB 9/15 EL
					Western Mich 9/15 EL

Minn	N	NW	OSU
Fla St 8/24 TARGET	Florida 8/24 DEVANEY	So Dakota 8/24@MKE	Albany 8/24 STJ
UNC 8/25 TARGET	Oregon 8/25 DEVANEY	New Hamp 8/24 @MKE	Ohio 8/25 STJ
NDSU 8/31 MATURI	Ohio 8/31 DEVANEY	@Milwaukee 8/25	Tex A&M 8/25 STJ
Ga. So 9/1 MATURI	Wake 8/31 DEVANEY	Princeton 8/31 @Colg	So Miss 8/31 @Oxford
Ark 9/1 MATURI	Santa Clara 9/1 DEVANEY	@Colgate 8/31	@ Ole Miss 8/31
Oregon 9/7 @Stan	@Creighton 9/6	SFA 9/1 @Colgate	Samford 9/1 @Oxford
@ Stanford 9/9	Iowa St 9/9 DEVANEY	Buffalo 9/7 @Ark	Princeton 9/7 @Towson
UWGB 9/13 MATURI	Cen Mich 9/14 DEVANEY	Butler 9/8 @Ark	Mizzou 9/8 @Towson
KSU 9/15 MATURI	New Mex 9/14 DEVANEY	@Arkansas 9/8	@Towson
	Mo. State 9/15 DEVANEY	UIC 9/14 @Chi ?	Evansville 9/14 @Dayton
		DePaul 9/15 @Chi ?	Tennessee 9/15 @Dayton
		Loyola 9/15 @Chi ?	@Dayton 9/15

PSU	PU	RU	UW
E. KY 8/24 RECHALL	Wofford 8/24 HOLLOWAY	Colgate 8/24 @Cal	UNC 8/24 @Minn
UMBC 8/25 RECHALL	BGSU 8/24 HOLLOWAY	@California 8/24	Fla St 8/25 @Minn
Navy 8/25 RECHALL	TULSA 8/25 HOLLOWAY	Chi. State 8/25 @Cal	Texas 9/1 FIELDHOUSE
Temple 8/31 RECHALL	Oakland 9/1 HOLLOWAY	Coppin St 8/31 @Lehigh	High Point 9/2 FIELDHOUSE
Tex A&M 9/1 RECHALL	Notre Dame 9/2 HOLLOWAY	@Lehigh 8/31	@Baylor 9/7
@Stanford 9/7	Xavier 9/7 HOLLOWAY	@Lafayette 9/1	@UNT 9/9
Oregon 9/8 @Stanford	Lipscomb 9/7 HOLLOWAY	Rider 9/1 @Lafayette	@Marquette 9/14
Howard 9/14 @DC	Louisville 9/8 HOLLOWAY	Howard 9/7 NEWBRUN	Ill St. 9/15 @Marq
Buffalo 9/15 @DC	So. Miss 9/14 @Tusc	Tulane 9/7 NEWBRUN
@American 9/15	@Bama 9/14	Navy 9/8 NEWBRUN
	So. Ala 9/15 @Tusc	St. Johns 9/14 @UCONN
		@UCONN 9/14
		Holy Cross 9/15 @UCONN

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on July 20, 2018, 08:51:48 AM

Quote from: MarqHusker on July 20, 2018, 12:01:52 AM

Non Conference Schedules for the B1G. Lots of 3 and 4 team mini-events at various locales, lots of day night DHs. These are often carefully curated to boost RPI. Great thing about Women's Vball, the helmets don't duck each other, and even though there are some neutral site games on a campus site, some of these 4 team challenges, rotate to each school over time. B1G/Pac series, VERT sponsors a big one, ACC/B1G.

That's really just a football problem. All the top schools play each other in all of the tournament sports. MSU in basketball this year is playing Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina, Louisville and Florida. All by December 8.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on July 20, 2018, 11:54:24 AM

If CF had 30 games, you'd probably see less ducking too...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 01, 2018, 06:06:10 PM

BTN schedule drop (also includes other fall olympic sports)

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/big10/genrel/auto_pdf/2018-19/misc_non_event/18B1GFallTVPackage.pdf

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 06, 2018, 10:46:44 PM

The VT board is the vball equivalent of this board, smarter than the coaches/media. ;) They now put forth a poll of a committee of posters from around the country. Just as good as any, IMO.

Volleytalk Preseason Top 25 rankings
(team, point total, (#) first place votes

1. Stanford 737 pts. (19)
2. Nebraska 715 pts. (10)
3. Minnesota 631 pts. (1)
4. Texas 622 pts.
5. Wisconsin 614 pts.
6. BYU 596 pts.
7. Kentucky 584 pts.
8. Florida 532 pts.
9. USC 489 pts.
10. Penn St. 466 pts.
11. Illinois 431 pts.
12. Oregon 407 pts.
13. UCLA 399 pts.
14. Colorado 368 pts.
15. Baylor 351 pts.
16. Creighton 240 pts.
17. Washington 239 pts.
18. Pittsburgh 195 pts.
19. San Diego 161 pts.
20. Michigan 132 pts.
21. Cal Poly 127 pts.
22. Iowa St. 109 pts.
23. Marquette 99 pts.
24. Louisville 72 pts.
25. Colorado St. 70 pts.
25. Purdue 70 pts.

Courtesy of Volleytalk.proboards.com

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on August 06, 2018, 10:56:38 PM

Pitt eh?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 07, 2018, 12:09:47 AM

They were co-ACC champs last year, and return everybody that matters. Back row was really weak the one match I saw of them last year. They are the media favorite this year (mildly) over Louisville, FSU, ND. UNC and Duke should bounce back. Their coach is highly regarded. I'd expect Louisville to start owning this league before too long.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on August 07, 2018, 12:24:34 AM

Didn't know that. I can't recall hearing one thing about the program in my entire time livong here.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 07, 2018, 01:14:53 AM

I have to imagine Volleyball is miles off the radar outside of Happy Valley in Pennsylvania. A testament to Russ Rose's genius. The 'east coast' and I know Pittsburgh isn't viewed as 'east coast' is pretty much a wasteland for the game. For whatever reason, the fertile ground of HS and Club talent in OH, IN, KY, pretty much stops to the east.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 07, 2018, 10:20:48 PM

The Wolverines appear to be at least seven spots too high.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 07, 2018, 10:32:38 PM

as usual

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 08, 2018, 09:56:37 PM

Consequently, I find this poll to have a lot more credibility with regards to where the Big Ten teams stack up in the National rankings.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkGx83WX4AQcO8v.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on August 08, 2018, 11:32:04 PM

IIRC MSU relied heavily on seniors last year. I'd expect a drop. I also think the Nassar scandal is going to really hit the women's sports hard in recruiting going forward

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 08, 2018, 11:59:56 PM

They did lose of ton of key players to graduation, most of their elite servers and offense. They still have good material, but agree, they will fall back a bit this year. That will be interesting to follow (recruiting for MSU in women's sports). They have a good history in volleyball, pretty solid support from the school and fans, but the B1G is no joke. No margin for error.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 15, 2018, 01:15:09 AM

B1G Coaches vote on preseason. As suspected, the AVCA the outlier on MSU (no offense to the Spartans).

2018 BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
1. Nebraska
2. Wisconsin
3. Minnesota
4. Penn State
5. Illinois
6. Michigan
7. Purdue
8. Ohio State
9. Michigan State
9. Iowa
11. Northwestern
12. Indiana
13. Maryland
14. Rutgers

2018 PRESEASON ALL-BIG TEN VOLLEYBALL TEAM
Ali Bastianelli, ILL
JORDYN POULTER, ILL
Taylor Louis, IOWA
CARLY SKJODT, MICH
Alexis Hart, MINN
STEPHANIE SAMEDY, MINN
SAMANTHA SELIGER-SWENSON, MINN
MIKAELA FOECKE, NEB
Kenzie Maloney, NEB
Taylor Leath, PSU
Kendall White, PSU
SHERRIDAN ATKINSON, PUR
DANA RETTKE, WIS
Tionna Williams, WIS
UNANIMOUS SELECTIONS IN CAPS

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 15, 2018, 01:19:32 AM

The aforementioned AVCA Top 25. w/ last year's record and finish.

1	Stanford (43)	1575	30-4	4
2	Nebraska (20)	1525	32-4	1
3	Texas	1389	27-3	5
4	Minnesota	1342	28-6	10
5	Kentucky	1260	29-4	6
6	Penn State	1227	33-2	3
7	Florida (1)	1208	30-2	2
8	BYU	1183	30-3	7
9	Wisconsin	1146	22-10	12
10	Southern California	1019	25-10	7
11	UCLA	850	21-11	14
12	Illinois	782	23-11	17
13	Creighton	651	26-7	16
14	San Diego	632	25-5	13
15	Colorado	609	24-10	19
16	Baylor	597	24-7	21
17	Washington	503	25-8	15
18	Oregon	443	18-12	RV
19	Utah	424	24-10	13
20	Pittsburgh	352	26-7	RV
21	Iowa State	284	22-7	25
22	Michigan State	250	24-9	8
23	Purdue	225	23-10	18
24	Cal Poly	209	27-3	22
25	Colorado State	174	29-4	24

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on August 15, 2018, 11:41:26 AM

I'll take this moment, once again, to mention how much I love that college volleyball is structured so the top intersectional teams can play each other in early season OOC, and not completely destroy their chances at post-season play later in the year.

This season in the OOC, Texas will play:

Oregon (in Lincoln)
Florida (in Lincoln)
Wisconsin (in Madison)
Kentucky (in Austin)
Stanford (in Palo Alto)
Stanford (in Austin)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 15, 2018, 11:48:10 AM

see you in Lincoln for the VERT Challenge

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 15, 2018, 08:11:32 PM

Quote from: FearlessF on August 15, 2018, 11:48:10 AM

see you in Lincoln for the VERT Challenge

As in see you play UF and UO. N v UT won't happen. This is Nebraska's last yr in the VERT per Cook.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 15, 2018, 09:43:10 PM

I'm going to miss the scarlet and grey scrimmage for the first time in eons, as they didn't announce it until yesterday, after I had already agreed to attend a baseball game that night. Oh well.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 15, 2018, 11:01:21 PM

Nebraska will have its scrimmage on the 18th. 8,000+ expected. It's another world in Lincoln. I'm probably going to see my first home Nebraska match since 1999 this fall. Too bad it will be vs Rutgers.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on August 16, 2018, 12:26:28 AM

Quote from: FearlessF on August 15, 2018, 11:48:10 AM

see you in Lincoln for the VERT Challenge

Well I won't be there, and as Marq pointed out Texas and NU won't be playing against one another, but I'll be there in spirit. :)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 16, 2018, 04:48:23 PM

I don't think I'm going to the scrimmage. Went last year with the daughter, but she hasn't said anything this year.

Won't be attending the VERT either. I don't think. Tough ticket to get.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 24, 2018, 12:37:30 AM

Well before the BTN is blown off the air, I'll enjoy Friday Night's #7 Florida at #2Nebraska match at 7pm est.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 24, 2018, 11:00:32 AM

thanks for the reminder

trying to break in the new 65 inch Samsung before football

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 25, 2018, 10:11:08 PM

OSU went 3-0 in its own Tournament, collecting wins against Albany, Ohio U and Texas A&M.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlfcL0uXsAE7VPV.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 26, 2018, 12:01:26 AM

corngrats

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 26, 2018, 12:47:44 AM

What the hell happens to trophies like that? Seems like a ucf v uconn kind of trophy.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on August 26, 2018, 10:57:27 AM

MSU opening with a 3-1 loss at Tennessee does not inspire confidence. They rebounded to beat Chattanooga and Belmont, but I imagine they'll be dropping out of the polls next week.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 26, 2018, 11:55:59 AM

Quote from: ELA on August 26, 2018, 10:57:27 AM

MSU opening with a 3-1 loss at Tennessee does not inspire confidence. They rebounded to beat Chattanooga and Belmont, but I imagine they'll be dropping out of the polls next week.

Sounds like it's time to go all in on Pitt. :great:

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on August 27, 2018, 03:39:27 PM

Horns went 2-0 up in Lincoln, beating Oregon and Florida. Sure woulda been fun to test the team's mettle against the Huskers, in Lincoln no less.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on August 27, 2018, 06:11:05 PM

UNL looked lost at times this past weekend. Last year, the teams started in a similar fashion. Cook will play around with rotations, and the freshman will settle into their roles. I don't believe UNL is the #2 team in the country, but they'll make noise in the BIG.

You don't go from one of the best setters in husker history to a freshman without some bumps.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 27, 2018, 06:33:43 PM

maybe #2 in the Big

maybe

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on August 27, 2018, 06:39:00 PM

That Frosh is gonna be a bust.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: JerseyTerrapin on August 29, 2018, 11:36:08 AM

Quote from: MarqHusker on August 07, 2018, 01:14:53 AM

I have to imagine Volleyball is miles off the radar outside of Happy Valley in Pennsylvania. A testament to Russ Rose's genius. The 'east coast' and I know Pittsburgh isn't viewed as 'east coast' is pretty much a wasteland for the game. For whatever reason, the fertile ground of HS and Club talent in OH, IN, KY, pretty much stops to the east.

Yeah, it's like lacrosse in reverse: away from the East, most people have barely heard of it, it seems.

Likewise, around here we hardly knew that college volleyball existed...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 29, 2018, 12:46:48 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on August 27, 2018, 06:39:00 PM

That Frosh is gonna be a bust.

Hames? She played well. There will need to be a solid month of matches before you see any chemistry w the OHs . Lexi returning will be nice.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 29, 2018, 01:00:54 PM

what about big time transfer Lexi Sun?

Is she sitting out a year due to transfer rules? Injured? or just can't crack the lineup?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 29, 2018, 01:36:30 PM

Lexi Sun has a back injury, Cook plans to keep her out of matches for awhile. They need another pin, and hopefully Sun is that pin. This will be a fun season to follow, to watch all these newcomers. Nov/Dec Nebraska will look much different. Preseason rankings have as much to do with being a vball 'helmet' than anything else.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on August 29, 2018, 03:01:26 PM

that's why I was asking. Foecke really struggled vs Florida. Could have used another swinging arm.

I guess that is good news. Expecting her in the lineup soon.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on August 31, 2018, 10:52:56 PM

USC takes out Florida in Gainesville in 4 sets tonight. Bob Lanier's daughter is a very talented player for USC. The other big match this weekend is UT at UW Sat night on BTN.

BYU takes down #1 Stanford in Provo in 5. Some interesting calls down the stretch benefit BYU which is legit top 5.

Ill beat CU in 1st Big v Pac match. Iowa early lead on Wash.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 02, 2018, 12:40:17 PM

OSU went 2-1 at the Rebel Invitational, with the lone loss coming at the hands of those host Rebels.

Rebelettes?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 04, 2018, 10:35:23 AM

Not sure how good UNC is at volleyball, but MSU won all three games at their invitational this weekend. 3-0 over the two mid-majors, and 3-1 over host UNC.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 04, 2018, 11:01:52 AM

UNC is a program that is trying hard to succeed at vball. They had some 'ups' and then they suffered a lot substantial injuries last year, and have had a lot of roster turnover. They will be better down the road then they are right now. They hung around with Minnesota last week for a little bit.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 04, 2018, 03:21:56 PM

But of course they are no match for Pitt.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 04, 2018, 11:10:10 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 04, 2018, 11:01:52 AM

UNC is a program that is trying hard to succeed at vball. They had some 'ups' and then they suffered a lot substantial injuries last year, and have had a lot of roster turnover. They will be better down the road then they are right now. They hung around with Minnesota last week for a little bit.

Yeah, my unscientific data suggested it's a school that should be good, but I don't recall ever seeing their name deep in the tourney.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 05, 2018, 12:10:25 AM

It's a swell landing spot for some of Nebraska's recruiting busts.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 05, 2018, 12:35:40 AM

I had to check, UNC did get to an elite 8 this decade as well as a couple sweet 16s. They tend to play to their seed/unseed as it seems. Keep in mind, the ACC rarely sniffs a FF (Fla St. in 2011 was the only appearance). As many as the Sun Belt (UT Arlington)

Early season trivia: FF appearances (counting current members, thus no separate Big 8/XII etc)
Pac 12: 51 (Stan 21, UCLA 12, USC 10, UW 4, Cal 2, AZ 1, UO 1)
BIG: 41 (N 14, PSU 13, Minn 5, Ill 3, OSU 2, UW 2, MSU 1, Mich 1)
Big West: 17 (Hawaii 9, LBSU 8)
XII: 13 (UT 12, KU 1)
SEC: 11 (Fla 8, LSU 2, Tenn 1)
West Coast: 10 (Pacific 7, BYU 2, Santa Clara 1)
MTN West: 3 (SDSU 2, SJSU 1)
Sun Belt: 1 (UT-Arlington)
ACC: 1 (FSU)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 05, 2018, 12:42:47 AM

OSU had to vacate a few of their tourney runs from right around the turn of the Millennium.

Can't remember how far they got, but probably not the final four.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 06, 2018, 12:30:58 AM

AVCA Top 25 - Week 2 (9/03/18)

1 Minnesota (35) 1538
2 Wisconsin (6) 1460
3 BYU (7) 1424
4 Stanford (8) 1414
5 Penn State (4) 1289
6 Texas 1274
7 Nebraska (3) 1257
8 Florida 1117
9 UCLA 1085
10 USC (1) 1076
11 Illinois 1048
12 Washington 813
13 Pittsburgh 799
14 Creighton 716
15 Baylor 604
T-16 Kentucky 582
T-16 San Diego 582
18 Oregon 514
19 Purdue 450
20 Michigan 310
21 Utah 299
22 Cal Poly 216
23 Washington State 202
24 Colorado 192
25 Marquette 165

this weekend, Minnesota will play Oregon and Stanford, Penn State will play Stanford, then Oregon. Badgers travel to Waco. Nebraska visits Creighton Thursday. Check out Pitt at #13. BTW: Pitt hosts the FF next year.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on September 06, 2018, 09:56:03 AM

some good matches

Creighton will be pumped up for a shot at the Huskers tonight

The No. 7 Nebraska volleyball team makes its only non-conference road trip of the season this week when it makes the short drive up to Omaha to play the No. 14 Creighton Bluejays on Thursday at 7 p.m. at CHI Health Center Omaha. The Huskers will then return home to host Iowa State on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Both Husker matches this week will be televised. The Nebraska-Creighton match will be on NET-1 and will have a free live stream at NETNebraska.org. The Huskers’ match against Iowa State will be televised on ESPNU and can also be viewed at WatchESPN.com.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 06, 2018, 02:00:02 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on September 02, 2018, 12:40:17 PM

OSU went 2-1 at the Rebel Invitational, with the lone loss coming at the hands of those host Rebels.

Rebelettes?

Fightin' Leias

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 06, 2018, 10:49:08 PM

#7 N at #14 Creighton in Omaha tonight was a dandy. Creighton has never defeated Nebraska, and things look good for the BlueJays, pretty convincing 2-0 lead, but Nebraska pulled it out in 5 sets (15-10 5th). 14,000+ on hand. Looked about 50/50. BTW, why is NET streaming always flawless, while BTN plus is always a clunky, latent riddled POS?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 07, 2018, 11:02:55 PM

Nice docket of matches tonight (a few on TV).
#1 Minnesota goes down to #18UO (at Stanford)
#2 Wisconsin goes down in 4 at #15Baylor
Penn St at Stanford about to start on Pac12 Net.
#25 Marq beat #10 USC
BYU handled USC earlier.
Ill winning two matches today vs HO league participants.

BYU could very well be #1 next week. Penn St the only other undefeated top 10 team at the moment.
ELA's Pitt Watch: Handled a pretty decent Dayton squad in 4 sets, including the 25-7 4th.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on September 07, 2018, 11:32:19 PM

Horns beat a slumping Kentucky team 3-1 in Austin tonight as well.

Next up a rare back-to-back home-and-home against Stanford, should be fun.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 08, 2018, 01:31:51 AM

Meanwhile Florida goes down @ Northern Arizona at high altitude. Rough night for the top 10.
Stanford swept Penn St. PSU another team with 8 new kids. They have two really good middles, setter seemed to struggle. Stanford as noted, keeps up the schedule grind with H/H w UT. Stanford playing BYU, PSU, Minnesota and UT twice over two weeks.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 08, 2018, 08:45:30 PM

OSU swept out the Towson Invitational, including a win over Mizzou.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 08, 2018, 11:22:15 PM

Pitt sweeps #12 Washington. Pitt gonna be top 10.
A school called UTRGV beat #15 Baylor in five sets. Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros that is. Baylor partied too much at George's last night after taking down Wisconsin.
Marquette gave BYU a run, but was out of gas, losing in 4 sets. BYU will likely be #1, and they could run the table now in the reg season.
Penn St bounced back beating Oregon.
Minn at Stanford on Sunday.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 08, 2018, 11:32:12 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 08, 2018, 11:22:15 PM

Marquette gave BYU a run, but was out of gas, losing in 4 sets. BYU will likely be #1, and they could run the table now in the reg season.

The Cougars will run the table, IF... they survive the BYUte game.

Their conference is awful.

(https://byucougars.com/dl/sites/default/files/styles/related_story_and_photo_ref_360x202_5/public/files/photos/_w1_7939_0.jpg?itok=cVteE9N3)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on September 09, 2018, 08:40:44 PM

LINCOLN, Neb. - The No. 7 Nebraska volleyball team swept Iowa State, 25-22, 25-18, 25-16, in front of a crowd of 8,108 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Sunday afternoon. The Husker volleyball program also retired the jersey of Sarah Pavan, one of the most decorated student-athletes in NCAA history, after the match. A four-time AVCA All-American and a two-time Academic All-American of the Year, Pavan became the ninth Husker in school history to have her jersey retired.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 10, 2018, 01:02:58 AM

Through Sundays matches. Of course this doesn't say who beat who, etc. BYU will likely be #1 this week. Stanford #2 I'm guessing. I've now finally watched all the 'top' teams sans Illnois and Michigan, cuz Michigan has so much money they are too busy counting to figure out how to stream a match. They are an outlier in that regard. Low brow. I think the B1G is anybody's guess.
Of note: Michigan has yet to drop a set. Colo. St. is their best win. MSU dropped the opener at Tenn. Ohio St. lost at Ole Miss. PSU and Minn lost at Stanford, Oregon also clipped the Gophers. Fla. took out Nebraska in Lincoln. Badgers lost at Baylor. Rutgers running out of chances to get to 8 wins.

Standings	Overall
Michigan	9-0
Illinois	8-0
Purdue	8-0
Michigan State	9-1
Ohio State	8-1
Nebraska	6-1
Penn State	6-1
Wisconsin	5-1
Maryland	7-2
Northwestern	7-2
Indiana	6-2
Minnesota	5-2
Iowa	4-3
Rutgers	5-5

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 10, 2018, 11:59:23 AM

Isn't Maryland being halfway decent notable? I thought the east coast schools in general didn't really play volleyball. Would be like Iowa fielding a solid lacrosse team.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 10, 2018, 12:41:29 PM

It would be. They do have a new coach, old coach bailed for IU, narrowly missed ncaa last year. I think their best win so far is probably Stony Brook so I may not be a believer just yet.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 10, 2018, 03:00:17 PM

If Indiana is greener pastures, your program is in trouble.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 10, 2018, 04:52:50 PM

Not to sound like a resident homer for the State of Indiana, but I could make it case for it being a much better gig than Maryland for volleyball. IU is about to (in a week or so) open a brand new volleyball/wrestling facility, they likely threw decent $$ at Steve Aird ($231,000 vs $172,000 at Maryland), that's top 20 money overall, and probably 6th highest in the B1G, who is viewed as a rising star coaching/recruiting status. B1G pays more for than any other league for vball HCs. He signed a nice class for Maryland last year. He's got a good coaching pedigree (assistant under Russ Rose), played at Penn St. The State produces great volleyball talent, one of the best club scenes around (Munciana).

This data is a little old (2016-17) Base Salary, we all know there may be other forms of comp.
John Cook, Nebraska $600,000 (I know he also has a NC bonus of 20%)
Geoff Carlson, tOSU, 303,000
Chris Tamas, Illinois, 300,000
Kelly Sheffield, Wis, $298,000
Russ Rose Penn State (not known, must be in this higher range)
Dave Shondell, Purdue, $232,000
Hugh McCutcheon, Minn $156,000 (he is believed to receive over $400k)
Mark Rosen, Mich $164,000
Cathy George, MSU $176,000

Rutgers coach was paid $95,000

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 10, 2018, 10:11:51 PM

BYU first time at #1 since 1986. Alabama first time ever being ranked, and they get to play Purdue this weekend.
Stanford at UT hook up twice this week, first at Palo Alto Tuesday and then in Austin this weekend. UW at Marquette.
I'm gonna guess this is Pitt's highest ranking ever. Hilarious that USC/UCLA are tied at #16.

1	BYU (54)	1590	8-0	3
2	Stanford (10)	1543	6-1	4
3	Texas	1410	5-1	6
4	Nebraska	1369	6-1	7
5	Penn State	1345	6-1	5
6	Wisconsin	1247	5-1	2
7	Minnesota	1229	5-2	1
8	Illinois	1169	8-0	11
9	Pittsburgh	1058	9-0	13
10	Creighton	867	6-3	14
11	Florida	826	5-3	8
12	Oregon	817	5-3	18
13	Washington	762	5-2	12
14	Cal Poly	697	7-1	22
15	Purdue	667	8-0	19
T-16	Southern California	641	6-3	10
T-16	UCLA	641	4-2	9
18	Baylor	592	6-3	15
19	Michigan	539	9-0	20
20	Kentucky	455	4-4	16
21	Marquette	427	7-2	25
22	Washington State	332	7-0	23
23	San Diego	207	2-4	16
24	Utah	93	7-2	21
25	Alabama	53	9-0	NR

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Iowa State 24; Northern Iowa 23; Georgia 22; Louisville 22; Michigan State 20; Colorado State 18; Colorado 17; Wyoming 14; Tennessee 12; Cincinnati 10; Kansas State 10; Loyola Marymount 8; Wichita State 6; Arizona 5; Oregon State 5; Portland 4

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 13, 2018, 09:08:11 PM

If you're jonesing for sports right now and you get BYUTV (I do) you can watch #24 Utah at #1 BYU right now. Should be a good match.

#2Stanford at #3UT Friday night on the blacked out network. I'm sure Utee gets it. Stanford swept the Longhorns in Palo Alto on Tuesday night. It was a very sad atmosphere in Palo Alto, should be humming at Gregory Gym Friday night.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 13, 2018, 09:15:24 PM

The Holy War

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on September 13, 2018, 09:19:14 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 13, 2018, 09:08:11 PM

If you're jonesing for sports right now and you get BYUTV (I do) you can watch #24 Utah at #1 BYU right now. Should be a good match.

#2Stanford at #3UT Friday night on the blacked out network. I'm sure Utee gets it. Stanford swept the Longhorns in Palo Alto on Tuesday night. It was a very sad atmosphere in Palo Alto, should be humming at Gregory Gym Friday night.

I get LHN. Don't get B1G network or whatever BYU is on. And I don't know of anyone that gets PAC.

But I won't need to watch on TV as current plans have me attending in person. Hook 'em Horns!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 13, 2018, 09:23:03 PM

BYU has their own channel. Like the schLonghorn network, only more churchy. And they show a lot of Muppet movies.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on September 13, 2018, 09:26:57 PM

If you say so. I like muppets. I can take or leave Mormons, unless they're knocking on my door, and then that turns from take to 100% leave.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 13, 2018, 09:29:16 PM

It's mostly replays of old BY-Ute games.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 13, 2018, 10:46:46 PM

I probably watch byutv 4 times a year and it is always vball. I do get Pac12 net. I noticed NESN shows some rotten collegiate vball now.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 13, 2018, 10:57:43 PM

BYU pretty dominant in this sweep. Record crowd of 5,400 somehow stuffed into this field house. WCC is not a bad league. Rpi wise they may be better than XII. San Diego, LMU and Portland could muster an upset .

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 13, 2018, 11:01:13 PM

Cougs are running the table. The Holy War was their final obstacle.

Take it to the bank.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on September 14, 2018, 09:02:35 AM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 10, 2018, 04:52:50 PM

Not to sound like a resident homer for the State of Indiana, but I could make it case for it being a much better gig than Maryland for volleyball. IU is about to (in a week or so) open a brand new volleyball/wrestling facility, they likely threw decent $$ at Steve Aird ($231,000 vs $172,000 at Maryland), that's top 20 money overall, and probably 6th highest in the B1G, who is viewed as a rising star coaching/recruiting status. B1G pays more for than any other league for vball HCs. He signed a nice class for Maryland last year. He's got a good coaching pedigree (assistant under Russ Rose), played at Penn St. The State produces great volleyball talent, one of the best club scenes around (Munciana).

This data is a little old (2016-17) Base Salary, we all know there may be other forms of comp.
John Cook, Nebraska $600,000 (I know he also has a NC bonus of 20%)
Geoff Carlson, tOSU, 303,000
Chris Tamas, Illinois, 300,000
Kelly Sheffield, Wis, $298,000
Russ Rose Penn State (not known, must be in this higher range)
Dave Shondell, Purdue, $232,000
Hugh McCutcheon, Minn $156,000 (he is believed to receive over $400k)
Mark Rosen, Mich $164,000
Cathy George, MSU $176,000

Rutgers coach was paid $95,000

Cook deserves every penny of that salary.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 16, 2018, 10:46:24 AM

OSU will limp into Conference play on a two game skid, losing to Tennessee and Dayton at the Flyer Invitational.

They did beat Evansville though. Whoever that is.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 16, 2018, 11:23:47 PM

B1G results from the weekend. Michigan dropped a set, but still perfect record, beating CSU and ND twice. Purdue won 3 matches down in Alabama, including over Bama. Illinois handled Creighton is also still perfect. K-State at Minnesota was postponed, as high temps (90s) made it unbearable I guess at the Pav (without A/C). Things get busy in the B1G now starting Wed (PSU at Minn, tOSU at UW, and I guess Rutgers has to play Maryland so why not right away). IU with a 9-2 start, all road/neutral matches.

Sep. 13, 2018	Minnesota 3, Green Bay 0	Minneapolis, MN
Sep. 14, 2018	Saint John's (NY) 3, Rutgers 1	Storrs, CT
	Maryland 3, New Hampshire 0	Philadelphia, PA
	Nebraska 3, Central Michigan 0	Lincoln, NE
	Southern Mississippi 2 at Purdue 3	Tuscaloosa, AL
	Indiana 3, Xavier 0	Cincinnati, OH
	Ohio State 3, Evansville 1	Dayton, OH
	Northwestern 3, UIC 0	Chicago, IL
	Illinois 3, Northern Iowa 0	Champaign, IL
	Maryland 3, Temple 0	Philadelphia, PA
	Indiana 3, Cincinnati 2	Cincinnati, OH
	Connecticut 3, Rutgers 1	Storrs, CT
	Penn State 3, Howard University 0	Washington, DC
	Michigan 3, Notre Dame 0	Ann Arbor, MI
	Michigan State 3, Albany (NY) 0	East Lansing, MI
	Iowa 3, Iowa State 1	Ames, IA
	Purdue 3 at Alabama 0	Tuscaloosa, AL
	Wisconsin 3, Marquette 0	Milwaukee, WI
	Nebraska 3, New Mexico 1	Lincoln, NE
Sep. 15, 2018	Rutgers 3, Holy Cross 1	Storrs, CT
	Tennessee 3, Ohio State 1	Dayton, OH
	Northwestern 3, DePaul 0	Chicago, IL
	Michigan State 3, UAB 0	East Lansing, MI
	South Alabama 2 at Purdue 3	Tuscaloosa, AL
	Wisconsin 3, Illinois State 1	Milwaukee, WI
	Penn State 3, Buffalo 0	Washington, D.C.
	Illinois 3, Lipscomb 0	Champaign, IL
	Iowa 3, Wyoming 1	Ames, IA
	Princeton 3, Maryland 2	Philadelphia, PA
	Indiana 3, Eastern Kentucky 0	Cincinnati, Ohio
	Penn State 3, American 1	Washington, DC
	University of Dayton 3, Ohio State 2	Dayton, OH
	Michigan State 3, Western Michigan 1	East Lansing, MI
	Illinois 3, Creighton 1	Champaign, IL
	Iowa 3, Syracuse 2	Des Moines, IA
	Northwestern 3, Loyola Chicago 1	Chicago, IL
	Nebraska 3, Missouri State 0	Lincoln, NE
	Kansas State at Minnesota (POSTPONED HEAT)	Minneapolis, MN

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on September 21, 2018, 09:18:33 PM

there's overtime in soccer?

Michigan/Nebraska tied at 8 in the first set

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 21, 2018, 11:20:00 PM

Michigan has a very nice team. It got really ugly for Mich in that 4th, but they are going to be a problem for everybody. Skojdt is an elite talent. Indy product. Nebraska service errors will be their undoing at this rate. In a tight match they won't recover. Sun looked good tonight as did Foecke.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 21, 2018, 11:53:06 PM

Iowa swept MSU in Iowa City. Illinois in 4 at Purdue. Sidebar, student anncr on btnplus with the name of Unique Beaver. :smiley_confused1:

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on September 22, 2018, 12:31:15 AM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 21, 2018, 11:20:00 PM

Michigan has a very nice team.

great match until the 4th set

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 22, 2018, 02:46:44 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on September 21, 2018, 11:53:06 PM

Iowa swept MSU in Iowa City.

With Nebraska and Penn State to follow. That was a must win opener.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 23, 2018, 04:36:23 PM

I attended a great one today.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnzXzkoX0AgD5AS.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on September 23, 2018, 06:39:58 PM

At least we pushed it to 4~???

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 23, 2018, 10:41:57 PM

I watched a little video of OSU's match today, that looked like a great scene. I think I read, first time PSU has started 0-2 in B1G play since 2000.

Ill 2-0 (at Purdue in 4, at Ind in 5)
Minn 2-0 (vs PSU in 3, vs Mary in 3)
N 2-0 (vs Mich in 4, vs MSU in 4)
UW 2-0 (vs OSU in 3, vs Rut in 3)
IU 1-1 (vs NW in 4, L to Purdue)
Iowa 1-1 (vs MSU in 3, vs Mich Loss in 4)
Mary 1-1 (vs Rut in 3, L at Minn)
Mich 1-2 (L at N in 4, W at Iowa in 4)
OSU 1-1 (L at UW, W vs PSU in 4)
Pur 1-1 (L vs Ill, W vs NW in 4)

0-2 MSU, PSU, NW, Rutgers.

N at Illinois next weekend
UW at Minn Wed night, then at Purdue weekend.
PSU at the Michigans next weekend.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 27, 2018, 01:48:55 AM

IU impressive tonight in a 4 set win at Ohio State. 25-9 in the 4th. Has IU ever held a non Rutgers B!G opp. to less than 10? PSU hangover real. First time watching IU, this team looks like they are going to compete this season.

Minnesota continued their dominance over UW, sweeping in Minneapolis tonight on BTN. I think that's 7 in a row in the series. Purdue won in 4 at Maryland.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on September 30, 2018, 10:35:25 PM

Through today's two matches (PSU 3-0 over Mich, and Iowa over NW)

Standings	Conf.	Overall	Streak
Nebraska	4-0	13-1	W13
Minnesota	4-0	10-2	W5
Illinois	3-1	14-1	L1
Wisconsin	3-1	10-2	W1
Michigan	2-2	13-2	L1
Purdue	2-2	13-2	L1
Penn State	2-2	11-3	W2
Indiana	2-2	11-4	L1
Maryland	2-2	11-5	W1
Iowa	2-2	10-5	W1
Michigan State	1-3	13-4	W1
Ohio State	1-3	10-6	L2
Northwestern	0-4	10-6	L4
Rutgers	0-4	6-11	L4

Pitt watch: still undefeated. I know they beat FSU this weekend. BYU remains #1 and is the only other undefeated team.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 30, 2018, 11:03:12 PM

Rutgers has a decent chance of getting off the schneid this week, hosting my Buckeyes.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 01, 2018, 09:34:49 PM

Nebraska middle blocker Lauren Stivrins was honored as the Big Ten Co-Player of the Week on Monday after leading the Huskers to a pair of road victories over the weekend.

Stivrins picked up her first-career Big Ten weekly honor after becoming the third Husker in school history to post a 1.000 hitting percentage with at least 10 kills when she went 10-for-10 in a sweep of Northwestern last Friday. She followed the next night with eight kills, four blocks and three service aces in a 3-1 win at previously unbeaten No. 7 Illinois. The sophomore from Scottsdale, Arizona averaged 2.57 kills per set on .536 hitting for the weekend.

Nebraska hosts Iowa on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The match will be televised on BTN, streamed at BTN2GO.com and can be heard on Husker Sports Network radio affiliates, Huskers.com and the official Huskers app.

Big Ten Weekly Awards (Oct. 1, 2018)
Co-Player of the Week: Alexis Hart, Jr., MINN
Co-Player of the Week: Lauren Stivrins, So., NEB
Defensive Player of the Week: Kendall White, Jr., PSU
Setter of the Week: Samantha Seliger- Swenson, Sr., MINN
Freshman of the Week: Serena Gray, PSU

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 01, 2018, 10:46:03 PM

I swear Strivins has silver hair.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 01, 2018, 10:48:10 PM

you are correct

my daughter has violet/silver hair

not my choice, but I'm sure the beautician gets paid extra

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 02, 2018, 10:28:25 PM

The No. 3 Nebraska volleyball team returns home for two matches this week after a successful weekend road trip to Illinois last weekend. The Huskers will meet Iowa on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center to begin a stretch of three straight home matches. The match will be televised on BTN and streamed online at BTN2GO.com.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 03, 2018, 09:04:49 PM

Huskers dispatch Hawks in Lincoln, but dropped a set

now for the big match

Illini v Badgers

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 03, 2018, 10:04:18 PM

Nebraska continues to drop a set nearly every match. The Fr. setter had a rough S2, but the passing wasn't exactly crisp either. Middles weren't a factor on offense. Can't beat Minnesota this weekend with that imbalance.

If memory serves, I don't think Nebraska had dropped a set to Iowa either ever, or for at least 25 meetings. It seems like this is the year either Iowa, Indiana, or Maryland could break into the top 8 for once. Its been a stranglehold of N/PSU/Minn/UW/Ill/Pur/MSU/UM/tOSU for the past 6/7 years.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on October 04, 2018, 08:44:41 AM

Big10 West is very very good in volleyball.

Illinios lost control of Wisconsin in the second set. When wisky went on a 13-4 run, you could just see the shift in confidence and, imo, it carried over into sets 3 and 4. It was a good match to watch as an impartial observer.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 08, 2018, 09:36:58 PM

AVCA Top 25 after this weekend. I didn't see more than maybe two points the entire weekend, trip to Texas kept me away. Minnesota with a big 4 set win in Lincoln. Iowa upset Wisconsin in 5 sets. Speculation will begin to brew around who the 4th regional host will be. If form holds, I suspect it will likely be Pac12 Champ, B1G Champ, Texas and ??? My money is on BYU if the win out. I'm not sure Pittsburgh will get the love if they run the table, though their RPI right now is 4, and Illinois is 3rd, Stanford 1st, BYU 2nd, fwiw.

1 BYU (60) 1596 16-0 1
2 Stanford (4) 1539 14-1 2
3 Minnesota 1447 12-2 5
4 Texas 1406 10-3 4
5 Nebraska 1365 14-2 3
6 Pittsburgh 1209 17-0 8
7 Illinois 1158 15-2 7
8 Wisconsin 1153 11-3 6
9 Penn State 1135 13-3 9
10 Creighton 991 14-4 10
11 Florida 971 15-3 11
12 Cal Poly 885 16-1 13
13 Michigan 769 15-2 16
14 Oregon 713 11-5 20
15 Southern California 681 12-5 12
16 Kentucky 630 10-4 18
17 Purdue 581 14-3 14
18 Washington 509 12-4 15
19 Marquette 501 14-4 19
20 UCLA 418 8-5 17
21 Washington State 413 13-3 22
22 Louisville 213 13-4 25
23 Arizona 161 14-4 21
24 Baylor 95 10-6 23
25 Arizona State 72 13-5 NR

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 10, 2018, 07:37:32 PM

Hosting Penn St. Purdue takes the first set

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: JerseyTerrapin on October 11, 2018, 08:52:48 AM

When I read this thread I empathize with all those girlfriends out there trying to understand football for the first time. I played volleyball in gym class, I guess.

Cool sport, though. One thing I still don't follow is how players almost grab the ball over their head and toss it back up. Aren't you supposed to hit it, not catch it? See, told you I know nothing about it...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 11, 2018, 12:49:08 PM

The art of setting. It's a very challenging skill, not to mention avoiding 'double contact'. You're never catching the ball, you're making a single contact on the ball with your fingers in an effort to direct the ball (usually w/o spin) to a designated location for your teammates to attack over the net, all while reading the defensive block on the other side of the net. I refuse to even introduce it to the kids on my team (8 & 9yr olds). Until they can pass the ball in a controlled fashion, I don't need them trying to set a volleyball. Having a good setter though is the difference between elite and simply very good. You're the QB of the court.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on October 11, 2018, 12:50:48 PM

Horns lose at Kansas 3-1. They Jayhawks are not a great team this year, but they have enough weapons to take you down if you're not playing well. Ah well, on to the next one.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 11, 2018, 01:06:59 PM

Dig, set, KILL!!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 11, 2018, 02:12:01 PM

Quote from: utee94 on October 11, 2018, 12:50:48 PM

Horns lose at Kansas 3-1. They Jayhawks are not a great team this year, but they have enough weapons to take you down if you're not playing well. Ah well, on to the next one.

Speaking of a team w/o an elite setter. Shook had a rough night for Texas. Serving was lousy too.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 11, 2018, 04:15:18 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on October 11, 2018, 01:06:59 PM

Dig, set, KILL!!

Hey Bogart, you should pass more often

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on October 12, 2018, 08:57:48 AM

Dodge Duck Dive Dip and Dodge...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 12, 2018, 09:30:35 AM

Quote from: FearlessF on October 11, 2018, 04:15:18 PM

Hey Bogart, you should pass more often

Free baller.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 12, 2018, 04:56:31 PM

The No. 5 Nebraska volleyball team will face No. 9 Penn State on the road on Saturday at 7 p.m. (CT) at Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania. It marks the first of four straight road matches for the Huskers, the next three of which will be against top-10 teams.

• Saturday’s match will be televised on the Big Ten Network and will be streamed at BTN2GO.com.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 12, 2018, 07:36:43 PM

Gonna be tough to take it to 7 straight over Penn St. For Nebraska.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on October 12, 2018, 09:13:12 PM

MSU choking bad against the Terps

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on October 12, 2018, 09:27:53 PM

Quote from: ELA on October 12, 2018, 09:13:12 PM

MSU choking bad against the Terps

Pulled it out in 5 after blowing a 2 set lead, and a 23-22 lead in the 3rd set, and 15-9 in the 4th

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 12, 2018, 10:29:12 PM

Espnu gives us a rare ACC match and it's not Pitt. Uva v ncsu. Jeezus.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 12, 2018, 10:55:56 PM

Buckeyes drop a five set heart breaker to the wolverines.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 14, 2018, 02:42:43 PM

Straight sets over da Spartans

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 14, 2018, 11:07:57 PM

Through today. Nebraska had chances to take down Penn State for the 8th consecutive time, but it wasn't meant to be, and was handled in the 5th set. Illinois avenged a home loss to UW and returned the favor in Madison on Saturday. Michigan with Skojdt putting up big #s now in a tie for 2nd place. Minnesota really looking good. Great setter, fast offense, elite Pins, impact Freshman. btw: Final Four is in Minneapolis. BYU and Pitt still undefeated (will play a good Louisville team this weekend).
BIG TEN STANDINGS (10/14)

		B1G	OVR	L10	STR
1	Minnesota \|	8-0	14-2	9-1	W9
2	Michigan \|	6-2	17-2	8-2	W4
2	Nebraska \|	6-2	15-3	8-2	L1
2	Penn State \|	6-2	15-3	8-2	W6
5	Illinois \|	5-3	16-3	7-3	W1
5	Wisconsin \|	5-3	12-4	7-3	L1
7	Purdue \|	4-4	15-4	6-4	W1
7	Iowa \|	4-4	12-7	6-4	L1
9	Michigan St \|	3-5	15-6	5-5	L1
9	Indiana \|	3-5	12-7	5-5	W1
9	Maryland \|	3-5	12-8	5-5	L2
9	Ohio State \|	3-5	12-8	3-7	W1
13	Northwestern \|	0-8	10-10	2-8	L8
14	Rutgers \|	0-8	6-15	1-9	L8

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 18, 2018, 12:23:43 AM

Lol@espnu. At 25-25 in 4th set of KU at KSU they lost their feed. Never came back. Ksu won. Rutgers was on tv tonight. Almost took a set from Penn st. Almost.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on October 18, 2018, 01:16:11 PM

For those who follow this more closely, how is the NCAA tourney situation looking. I know the Big Ten is deep year in and year out, but tied for 9th is the lowest MSU has been in some time. I'm assuming that's right on the bubble?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 18, 2018, 08:27:31 PM

Their RPI isn't good, about 80. They need to get to 10 conference wins. 20 conf matches total. Any ncaa bid will need 10 conf. Wins. Schedule is home heavy as it relates to upper tier the rest of the way.

They lost so much offense. They do have a really good freshman.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 18, 2018, 08:29:24 PM

Sparty's loss to the Buckeyes won't do them any favors.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 18, 2018, 08:57:56 PM

Here's what's left for Sparty. At worst 2-4 on remaining road matches. RU/NW are terrible. I doubt they go 5-1 on remaining home matches. Probably need to win at Purdue and at Michigan, or upset UW/Ill.

10/19/18	at Northwestern	8:00 pm
10/20/18	at Illinois	8:00 pm
10/26/18	MINNESOTA	6:00 pm
10/27/18	WISCONSIN	7:00 pm
10/31/18	at Purdue	7:00 pm
11/03/18	at Minnesota	7:00 pm
11/07/18	OHIO STATE	TBA
11/10/18	IOWA	8:00 pm
11/14/18	at Rutgers	7:00 pm
11/17/18	MICHIGAN	7:00 pm
11/21/18	ILLINOIS	TBA
11/24/18	at Michigan	7:00 pm

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: The Loon on October 21, 2018, 12:07:06 AM

Minnesota lost a set tonight.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 21, 2018, 12:18:01 AM

That was a strange match. I had one eye on it with my 3 TVs. Minnesota overcame some dreadful serving, and after tonight, no doubt, the best freshman out there with Rollins. Nebraska looked gassed, Again having legit chances to close out sets, but didn't. The Fr. setter will be a very good setter, but she's no Kelli Hunter at this stage. @PSU, @UW, @Minn. First three match losing streak since 1997 for Nebraska. Minnesota is the class of the league at this point.

Pitt watch: beat ND Friday (really nice crowd at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House), face their toughest match in conference with #21Louisville on Sunday. I've read Pitt has secured access to Petersen Events in the event they host a regional.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on October 22, 2018, 01:30:39 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on October 18, 2018, 08:57:56 PM

Here's what's left for Sparty. At worst 2-4 on remaining road matches. RU/NW are terrible.

Well, lost in straight sets at Northwestern, so...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 22, 2018, 10:12:24 PM

Standings	Conf.	Overall
Minnesota	10-0	16-2
Penn State	8-2	17-3
Illinois	7-3	18-3
Michigan	7-3	18-3
Wisconsin	7-3	14-4
Purdue	6-4	17-4
Nebraska	6-4	15-5
Indiana	4-6	13-8
Maryland	4-6	13-9
Iowa	4-6	12-9
Michigan State	3-7	15-8
Ohio State	3-7	12-10
Northwestern	1-9	11-11
Rutgers	0-10	6-17

1/2 way mark.
BYU (58), Stanford (6), Minnesota, Penn St., Pitt, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Nebraska, Creighton, Cal Poly, Michigan, Florida, Kentucky, USC, Oregon, Purdue, Marquette, Wazzu, UCLA is your top 20.

Pitt held off #21 Luvl in 4 sets on Sunday.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 24, 2018, 02:11:06 PM

• The No. 9 Nebraska volleyball team plays its fourth straight road match when it meets Ohio State on Wednesday at 6 p.m. (CT) at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
• Wednesday’s match will be televised on the Big Ten Network and will be streamed at BTN2GO.com.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 27, 2018, 08:50:51 PM

nice match going on in Lincoln tonight

#6 Illinois vs #9 Nebraska

Huskers take the first set 29-27

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on October 29, 2018, 12:08:29 PM

UNL can't close out games. They start to freeze up in close sets after 20 pts...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on October 29, 2018, 12:38:48 PM

Shiny new setter not workin' out?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on October 29, 2018, 02:20:15 PM

the Frosh setter isn't always on, but that Illinois match was odd.

Jazz Sweet has been struggling hitting, but Mikaela Foecke was off as well. Wasn't hitting the ball hard or well. Thought she may have been injured.

outstanding defense from both teams, but the Huskers could not hit. Hitting below .100

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on October 29, 2018, 07:15:00 PM

Nebraska's playing to my expectations. They are about the only ones in the league who have competed with Minnesota thus far, win some and lose some with the teams at the top. If they start dropping matches to the bottom tier, I'd be concerned. I know it isn't breaking news, but the teams with the experienced setters are at the top.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on November 01, 2018, 10:02:32 AM

MSU came out on fire every single set, and would slowly wilt, losing in 4 sets to #13 Purdue. I believe MSU opened with 4-0, 6-0 and 8-2 leads in the three sets they lost.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 02, 2018, 01:03:58 AM

The Gophers are curb stomping their way to the B1G crown (it appears). Remaining seven matches of note, they host Purdue and do travel to Penn State, otherwise, they have taken out everybody else, dropping only 3 sets in conference this year. The offense is a machine, so many weapons, and a great setter. Rutgers about to enter a season ending gauntlet against top foes, with at NW and hosting MSU in the middle to provide some chance at a first conference win in a few seasons.

Michigan is in a funk (lots of sick players apparently). They lost at IU this week, which is quietly moving to the NCAA bubble. Must see TV, PSU at Nebraska Friday night.

Pitt watch: they did lose their first match of the season against Duke, so unlikely to host a regional at this point. BYU and Stanford continue as 1 and 2 respectively.

Standings	Conf.	Overall
Minnesota	13-0	19-2
Illinois	9-3	20-3
Penn State	9-3	18-4
Purdue	9-4	20-4
Wisconsin	9-4	16-5
Nebraska	7-5	16-6
Michigan	7-6	18-6
Indiana	6-7	15-9
Maryland	5-7	14-10
Iowa	4-8	12-11
Northwestern	3-9	13-11
Ohio State	3-9	12-12
Michigan State	3-10	15-11
Rutgers	0-12	6-19

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 02, 2018, 11:03:33 PM

as usual when those 2 teams get together... helluva match in Lincoln tonight

Huskers in 5 exciting sets over the Lions

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 03, 2018, 01:50:32 AM

Not many matches last 3 hours in rally scoring, but Nebraska and Penn State manage to do it more than a few times, it seems. It wasn't necessarily crisp volleyball, but it was a fantastic match to watch. They are responsible for some of the greatest volleyball matches every played in NCAA (2008 final the GOAT). Nebraska's D is such a strength, what they could do with a better offense right now. They tallied 20 blocks and 104 digs, which I'm fairly certain is a school record, and probably one of the highest dig totals in NCAA history. Foceke (an OH!) had 29 digs. Offensively, geez, they gagged set one losing 4 set points, and were really careless in sets they won on set point. Really having a hard time finishing. Glad to see Lexi Sun bounce back from a terrible 1st/2nd sets.

side note: Stanford escaped in 5 at Colorado, and BYU held off San Diego.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on November 03, 2018, 10:42:54 PM

Taking the Gophers to a 5th set, particularly in Minneapolis, feels like a W

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 03, 2018, 11:14:53 PM

The whole top 3 got scares this weekend. MSU has been a thorn for Minnesota lately. IU nearly knocked off Purdue, that would've been huge for IU's tourney chances.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 04, 2018, 03:52:53 PM

Buckeyes add Jr OH Rachel Kirchner out of Dublin Coffman to their VB roster.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 05, 2018, 01:21:43 AM

Man, injuries have wiped out Ohio State. That's interesting they bring in a local club player. Of course I know nothing about her. I take it she's a student and moonlights in Club? Michigan winning at UW today in 4 sets. I think Illinois is the only other B1G candidate for a top 4 seed at this moment.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 05, 2018, 08:47:46 AM

I know quite a bit about her, although I didn't know that she went to OSU.

She played for my HS, and was the only member of the loaded 2016 class that didn't go onto play collegiately.

#10.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRZxmbNUcAAD6QM.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTk7zjcVEAAZTeI.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 05, 2018, 09:06:55 AM

Okay, so that's the extent of what I "know" about her. But compared to most Big Ten VB fans, I'd say that's pretty good.

Kind of funny that she wound up at the top "program" out of the five.

.

There was a second club player added to the roster, but she's already in a walking boot. So that barely counts.

But yeah, OSU was rotating a setter and a DS in as front row hitters.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 07, 2018, 04:41:04 PM

• The sixth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team begins a four-match road swing with a Wednesday match at Iowa at 7 p.m.
• The match will be televised on the Big Ten Network and streamed at BTN2GO.com. John Baylor is in his 25th season doing play-by-play for the Husker volleyball program. Lauren West, a former All-America setter for the Huskers, will provide color commentary.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 08, 2018, 08:51:09 AM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 04, 2018, 03:52:53 PM

Buckeyes add Jr OH Rachel Kirchner out of Dublin Coffman to their VB roster.

Christened.

She found her way onto the court vs Sparty, and posted her first trillion (a 1 for "sets played" followed by a bunch of goose eggs).

(https://www.cfb51.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F_2tbbE97DTEE%2FSVmt7eT37XI%2FAAAAAAAAACY%2FvSPTF6rNE0Q%2FS1600-R%2Fpossfinal22.jpg&hash=f505e60bd0777d7bf5ca6d043924adfb)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: ELA on November 08, 2018, 09:06:43 AM

Hey and MSU picked up the win in a matchup of programs way down on their luck this year.

During the MSU-Purdue broadcast they did say MSU is the youngest team in the Big Ten and one of the youngest in the country, so at least there's that.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 08, 2018, 09:59:21 AM

OSU is holding senior night on Saturday, even though there's two more home games the following weekend.

Bold strategy. Act like it's the last home game of the season against Maryland, and then maybe nobody will come out and watch them get fed through the woodchipper vs Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 08, 2018, 10:25:31 AM

Michigan loses to IU, wins at Wisconsin and then gets swept at home by Maryland last night.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 08, 2018, 11:37:19 AM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 08, 2018, 09:59:21 AM

OSU is holding senior night on Friday, even though there's two more home games the following weekend.

Bold strategy.

:c002:

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 10, 2018, 09:41:36 PM

A valiant effort on senior night in the first two sets, but came up short and were run off the court in the third.

Two of the seniors honored didn't even play this year, retiring early due to injury. A third played the year hobbled, confined to the back row after spending most of her career up front. The fourth transferred in this year, and missed a pretty good stretch.

Kirch posted another trillion.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 10, 2018, 10:56:58 PM

Miami and Bowling Green split the Regular Season Mac Title.

Kent and Ohio make the Conference Tourney.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrsVMliVYAA3MCR.jpg)

Cleveland St and Wright St made the Horizon bracket.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrsDJD-VsAAddo3.jpg)

Dayton is the 2 seed in the A-10.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr0VXeEWsAAARYE.jpg:large)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 11, 2018, 09:08:48 PM

Standings	Conf.	Overall
Minnesota	16-0	22-2
Illinois	13-3	24-3
Nebraska	11-5	20-6
Penn State	11-5	20-6
Wisconsin	11-5	18-6
Purdue	10-6	21-6
Michigan	8-8	19-8
Maryland	8-8	17-11
Indiana	6-10	15-12
Iowa	6-10	14-13
Northwestern	5-11	15-13
Michigan State	4-12	16-13
Ohio State	3-13	12-16
Rutgers	0-16	6-23

Standings through Sunday. Minnesota closes with 4 on the road @ M'land, OSU, PSU and Rutger.
Illinois is @NW, @RU, @MSU, home vs Purdue. I still think Illinois has the edge to get that top 4 seed, USC/Texas are the remaining contenders. Maryland needs to grind out two more wins IMO. BYU lost one of its stars for the season to injury (McKenna Miller). That's a big loss.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 12, 2018, 09:06:38 AM

I saw one of McKenna Miller's first games in person. They played OSU in the Blue Jacket's arena when she was a freshman. First or second week of the season. OSU was still pretty good back then.

OSU won the first two sets and appeared to be cruising to an easy victory. Then Miller went bonkers and BYU won the next three sets.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 13, 2018, 04:40:10 PM

JuCo outta Toledo...

https://twitter.com/NJCAAVolleyball/status/1061443050021535744

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 14, 2018, 09:36:07 PM

Rutgers was 5 points away from winning their 2nd ever match in B1G play tonight, and then the balloon popped. Spartans score 5 of the final 7 points and take the match.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 15, 2018, 12:30:46 PM

OSU's next three are Wisconsin, Minnesota and @ Nebraska.

Over/Under is set at 3, for the number of sets in which OSU breaks double digits over that stretch.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 16, 2018, 09:56:22 PM

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The sixth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team tied its season high with 11 aces to capture its fifth straight win with a 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 22-25, 25-17) win at No. 12 Purdue in front of a crowd of 2,415 at Holloway Gymnasium on Friday night.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 16, 2018, 10:26:06 PM

I had planned to go, but kids events trump. I may head to Btown for Sat night match.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 16, 2018, 10:27:57 PM

The Buckeyes exceeded my expectations and surpassed the double digit barrier in all three sets vs Wisconsin. Even broke 20 in the third set.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 17, 2018, 10:14:35 PM

Buckeyes push the Gophers to five sets in this, their final game in St John.

We're comin' for ya, Huskers.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 17, 2018, 10:17:57 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 10, 2018, 10:56:58 PM

Miami and Bowling Green split the Regular Season Mac Title.

Kent and Ohio make the Conference Tourney.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrsVMliVYAA3MCR.jpg)

Cleveland St and Wright St made the Horizon bracket.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrsDJD-VsAAddo3.jpg)

Dayton is the 2 seed in the A-10.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr0VXeEWsAAARYE.jpg:large)

Miami and Dayton will both play in their respective CCGs.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 18, 2018, 11:35:32 AM

Top play of the match...

https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1063968657393340416

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 18, 2018, 02:34:17 PM

The Flyers are in.

https://twitter.com/DaytonVB/status/1064237967244500993

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 18, 2018, 02:35:09 PM

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The sixth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team swept Indiana 25-13, 25-19, 25-19 in its final Big Ten road match of the season on Saturday night at University Gym.

Up Next: Nebraska finishes the regular season with two home matches next weekend. The Huskers host Ohio State on Friday and Maryland on Saturday, both at 7 p.m. on NET and the Husker Sports Network. Saturday's match will be Senior Day for Nebraska's three seniors - Mikaela Foecke, Kenzie Maloney and Brooke Smith.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 18, 2018, 10:10:04 PM

Minnesota clinched the B1G outright, their 3rd conference title, and first since 2015. The only drama left in B1G is whether Illinois can hold on to the 4th overall seed (they finish with @MSU and Purdue in Champaign.

Penn St hosts Minnesota/Wisconsin this weekend, and Nebraska hosts OSU/Mland, that will settle 3rd/4th/5th in the league (likely).
projected seeds: Minn (2nd-3rd), Ill (4th-6th), UW (6th-9th), PSU (7th-10th), Neb (7th-11th).

Purdue is in the mix to get one of the coveted top 16 seeds (guarantees hosting 1st/2nd round, provided the school puts in a bid). They finish with atIU/at Ill

Michigan appears in the tournament, though at least one win will make it a no doubt, they host NW/MSU this weekend. Maryland may need to win both matches (at Iowa/at Nebraska).

Rutgers seems almost certain to finish 0-20 (again), hosting Minn/Wisconsin this weekend.

BYU/Stanford are still at the top of the NCAA. RPI prefers Stanford (BYU beat Stanford in Provo early this year).

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 21, 2018, 09:16:39 PM

BYU lost its first match last night. Swept at LMU. A sweep.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 21, 2018, 09:33:21 PM

Stick a fork in 'em. They are done.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 24, 2018, 09:46:55 AM

Penn st foiled the Gophers bid for 20-0 with a 3hour, 5 set thriller last night. Minnesota is still headed to a top 4 seed and will close out the season with Rutger which has now lost 70, I repeat, SEVENTY consecutive B1G matches.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 24, 2018, 10:48:24 AM

LINCOLN, Neb. - The No. 6 Nebraska volleyball team won its seventh straight match with a 25-15, 25-12, 25-12 sweep over Ohio State in front of a crowd of 8,267 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Friday night.

Up Next: Nebraska finishes the regular season against Maryland on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The Huskers will recognize their three seniors - Mikaela Foecke, Kenzie Maloney and Brooke Smith - following the match. The match will be televised on NET, streamed at BTN2GO.com and can be heard on the Husker Sports Network.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 24, 2018, 11:30:33 AM

That was pathetic.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 24, 2018, 10:34:32 PM

While OSU's season has mercifully come to an end, their Rutgers-like losing streak remains quite intact.

Quite the decline over the past couple of years...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 25, 2018, 12:01:50 AM

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska volleyball team wrapped up the regular season with its eighth win a row, defeating Maryland 25-13, 25-10, 25-18 in front of a crowd of 8,139 on Senior Night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday.

The sixth-ranked Huskers finished the regular season at 24-6 overall and 15-5 in the Big Ten, which will earn them a tie for third in the conference standings.

Up Next: The NCAA Tournament Selection Show will take place on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and will be televised on ESPNU. Should the Huskers be selected as one of the top 16 seeds, they would host the first and seconds rounds next weekend at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. There are no tickets available for the potential first and second rounds in Lincoln, but if there are any visiting team ticket returns, they would go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 25, 2018, 09:52:43 PM

Bracket

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/volleyball-women/d1/2018

A bunch of Big Ten teams made it of course.

Dayton and Cincinnati are in, so I will pull for them until they are eliminated, which should be the first or second round.

UCF and FGCU are playing each other in round one and each team has a player that played for my HS, so I'll pull for the winner of that game, which probably won't get much farther.

I will also pull for the Midshipmen because A) they are playing Michigan, and B) they are coached by Sgt Paco who turned Wittenberg (OH) into a D3 powerhouse over the last decade and a half.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 25, 2018, 11:05:07 PM

The top seeds. Regionals will be hosted by top remaining seeds. No top 4 has yet to 'not host' the regionals since they went to this format (year 3). However, the last two National Champions have won on the road in the Regionals (Stanford at Wisconsin in '16, and Nebraska at Kentucky in '17). FF at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

1. Stanford
2. Minnesota
3. Illinois
4. BYU
5. Texas
6. Wisconsin
7. Nebraska
8. Penn State
9. Creighton
10. Kentucky
11. Southern California
12. Pittsburgh
13. UCF
14. Marquette
15. Oregon
16. Washington State

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 25, 2018, 11:23:19 PM

1st round schedule. BOLD (any B1G pod match). Pitt likely to face the Michigan v Navy winner.

2 Minnesota region: 7 Nebraska, Purdue (#10 Kentucky, #15 Oregon)
3 Illinois region: 6 Wisconsin (#11 USC, #14 Marquette)
1 Stanford region: 8 Penn State (#9 Creighton, #16 Wazzu)
4 BYU region: Michigan (#5 Texas, #12 Pitt, #13 UCF)

Game	Site	Date	Time (ET)
Florida State vs. Florida	UCF	Thursday, Nov. 29	4:30 p.m.
Rice vs. Texas State	Texas	Thursday, Nov. 29	5 p.m.
Northern Iowa vs. Pepperdine	Wisconsin	Thursday, Nov. 29	6 p.m.
No. 13 UCF vs. Florida Gulf Coast	UCF	Thursday, Nov. 29	7 p.m.
Hawaii vs. Baylor	Oregon	Thursday, Nov. 29	7:30 p.m.
No. 5 Texas vs. Stephen F. Austin	Texas	Thursday, Nov. 29	8 p.m.
No. 6 Wisconsin vs. Green Bay	Wisconsin	Thursday, Nov. 29	8:30 p.m.
No. 15 Oregon vs. New Mexico St.	Oregon	Thursday, Nov. 29	10 p.m.
Michigan vs. Navy	Pittsburgh	Friday, Nov. 30	4 p.m.
Saint Mary's (CA) vs. Washington	Creighton	Friday, Nov. 30	4:30 p.m.
Purdue vs. East Tennessee State	Kentucky	Friday, Nov. 30	5 p.m.
Syracuse vs. Yale	Penn State	Friday, Nov. 30	5 p.m.
Arizona vs. Missouri	Nebraska	Friday, Nov. 30	5:30 p.m.
Cincinnati vs. Illinois State	Marquette	Friday, Nov. 30	5:30 p.m.
South Carolina vs. Colorado	Minnesota	Friday, Nov. 30	5:30 p.m.
Louisville vs. Dayton	Illinois	Friday, Nov. 30	5:30 p.m.
Utah vs. Denver	BYU	Friday, Nov. 30	6 p.m.
No. 9 Creighton vs. South Dakota	Creighton	Friday, Nov. 30	7 p.m.
No. 12 Pittsburgh vs. Iona	Pittsburgh	Friday, Nov. 30	7 p.m.
Tennessee vs. Colorado State	Washington St.	Friday, Nov. 30	7 p.m.
No. 8 Penn State vs. Howard	Penn State	Friday, Nov. 30	7:30 p.m.
No. 10 Kentucky vs. Murray State	Kentucky	Friday, Nov. 30	7:30 p.m.
Loyola Marymount vs. Duke	Stanford	Friday, Nov. 30	7:30 p.m.
No. 2 Minnesota vs. Bryant	Minnesota	Friday, Nov. 30	8 p.m.
No. 3 Illinois vs. Eastern Michigan	Illinois	Friday, Nov. 30	8 p.m.
No. 7 Nebraska vs. Hofstra	Nebraska	Friday, Nov. 30	8 p.m.
No. 14 Marquette vs. High Point	Marquette	Friday, Nov. 30	8 p.m.
No. 4 BYU vs. Stony Brook	BYU	Friday, Nov. 30	9 p.m.
San Diego vs. Cal Poly	Southern Cal	Friday, Nov. 30	9 p.m.
No. 1 Stanford vs. Alabama State	Stanford	Friday, Nov. 30	10 p.m.
No. 16 Washington St. vs. N. Arizona	Washington St.	Friday, Nov. 30	10 p.m.
No. 11 Southern Cal vs. Samford	Southern Cal	Friday, Nov. 30	11 p.m.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 25, 2018, 11:45:45 PM

tough draw for the Huskers

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 26, 2018, 12:06:19 AM

It's always a tough draw to a FF for anybody all the time (unless you're Penn St/Texas). ;) I will say there's a ton of familiarity in that bracket. Nebraska has played nearly every team with a pulse in the bracket at least once in the past 12 months. (Purdue 2x, Minn 2x, Oregon, Kentucky, Colorado). Mizzou is familiar in name only at this point. Haven't faced Arizona though since 2002? I see Hofstra has a monster MB who hits .400+, nice test for Stivrins/Schwarzenbach.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 26, 2018, 01:13:22 AM

Bowling Green and the Miami Redhawks are in the big bad NIVC

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds5ei48X4AAmIoW?format=jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on November 26, 2018, 09:21:35 AM

It will be interesting to see how good BYU really is without their stud player. I could easily see Texas having the easiest path to the final 4. Both Stanford and Minn seem to have tougher regions... at least on paper.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 26, 2018, 07:03:30 PM

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds5MB4qWwAI8HZd?format=jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 26, 2018, 07:34:58 PM

Thanks for posting the visual bracket. Was struggling in my one attempt on phone .

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 29, 2018, 10:03:03 PM

FGCU getting some inspiration from what their hoops team did a few years ago, upsetting UCF in 5 tonight. You don't see a seeded team lose very often in the 1st round. They definitely catch a break being able to play Florida on Friday at UCF's gym. Hawaii and Baylor going to a 5th now too.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on November 29, 2018, 11:20:34 PM

• All Nebraska matches this weekend will be televised on NET and streamed on Huskers.com for free. All three matches this weekend will have a free live stream available at Huskers.com

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 30, 2018, 12:52:29 AM

Hofstra with a U.N. sponsored roster. At least 12 International born players on the roster. Funny note, their Head Coach is making her third trip to the NCAA Tournament. She played at Iona, and faced Nebraska in the 1st round, and has now taken Hofstra to the tournament twice (2014, 19) and her team's had to face Nebraska both times.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 30, 2018, 08:57:56 PM

https://twitter.com/GoBearcatsVB/status/1068658608693567490

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 30, 2018, 09:45:46 PM

Where they will play Marquette. Remarkable they got the arena ready . A drunk driver drove into the AL McGuire Center last Sunday and managed to crash all the way into the court area .

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on November 30, 2018, 11:07:07 PM

B1G cruising so far.
Minnesota sweeps Bryant, plays South Carolina which upset Colorado in 5. (SEC SEC SEC!)
Illinois sweeps EMU, plays Luvl on Saturday. (Ill hosts regional with a win) will play Marq/Cincy winner.
Wisconsin sweeps UWGB, and beats Pepperdine in 4 sets, advance to Sweet 16 (likely in Illinois vs USC/Cal Poly/SD)
Nebraska sweeps Hofstra, faces Mizzou which hammered Arizona (SEC SEC SEC!)
Purdue sweeps Murray St, plays @Kentucky
Penn State sweeps Howard, 9, 9, and 8, and faces Cute
Michigan sweeps Navy, will play @Pitt. (Texas awaits winner in Austin next week)

Tenn beat Colorado St. in 5 (SEC SEC)
Florida advances to SW 16 sweeping FGCU (SEC SEC SEC) await BYU/Utah winner

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on November 30, 2018, 11:36:57 PM

I think that the Utes will upset the Cougs.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 01, 2018, 10:38:48 AM

Up Next: The Huskers will play No. 24 Missouri on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the second round. Missouri swept No. 23 Arizona in the first match, 25-17, 25-22, 25-18. The match will be televised on NET, streamed on Huskers.com

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 01, 2018, 10:12:57 PM

LINCOLN, Neb. - In what was likely her final home match, senior All-American Mikaela Foecke had 16 kills without an error to lead the No. 6 Nebraska volleyball team to a 25-14, 25-22, 25-18 sweep of No. 24 Missouri in a second-round NCAA Tournament match in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,382 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. With the win, Nebraska advances to the NCAA Regional Semifinal, where the Huskers will face Kentucky on Friday.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 01, 2018, 10:41:13 PM

https://twitter.com/BYUwvolleyball/status/1069072369291935745

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 02, 2018, 01:33:40 AM

Sweet 16 is set. B1G did well, though Purdue got run in Lexington vs KY.

Minnesota sweeps So Car.
Nebraska sweeps Mizzou
Illinois beats Luvl in 4
Penn St sweeps Syracuse
Michigan takes down 12 Pitt in 5
Wis won last night vs Pepperdine in 4

Leave us with (host is the highest seed, top 8 seeds all advanced) 5 remaining teams have previously won at least one title, 3 of them in the Stanford regional. 12/16 have previously been to a FF (Wazzu, Marq., San Diego, and Kentucky are newbies, though KY has been to an Elite 8, last year losing to Nebraska)

1 Stanford v 16 Wazzu
Wash v. 8 Penn St (Wash swept 9 Creighton)

5 Texas v Michigan
4 BYU v Florida

3 Illinois v 14 Marquette
6 Wisconsin v San Diego (they swept 11 USC)

2 Minnesota v 15 Oregon
7 Nebraska v 10 Kentucky

FF berths (titles)
Stanford 21 (7 titles)
Nebraska 14 (5)
Penn St 13 (7)
Texas 12 (2)
Florida 8
Minnesota 5
Washington 4 (1)
Illinois 3
BYU 2
Wisconsin 2
Michigan 1
Oregon 1

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 02, 2018, 01:49:48 AM

Big Ten team in every match up except Stanford-Wazzou and BYU-Florida

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 02, 2018, 10:44:35 PM

Champaign Winner will play Minneapolis Winner in FF Semifinal
Provo Winner will play Palo Alto Winner in FF Semifinal
Regional Finals on Saturday, all on ESPNU

Champaign Regional-Friday
Illinois v Marquette 11 am CT (ESPNU)
Wisconsin v San Diego 1:30 CT (ESPN3)

Minneapolis Regional- Friday
Nebraska v Kentucky 1pm CT (ESPNU)
Minnesota v Oregon 3:30 CT (ESPN3)

Provo Regional-Friday
Texas v Michigan 3pm CT (ESPNU)
BYU v Florida 5:30pm CT (ESPN3)

Palo Alto Regional-Friday
Penn State v Washington 5pm CT (ESPNU)
Stanford v Washington State 7:30 CT (ESPN3)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 03, 2018, 11:06:33 AM

Alright Wolverines, should be a fun match. Friday's my birthday, and I always get my birthday wishes. :)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 03, 2018, 11:09:26 AM

This round I will pull for the Big Ten teams with the lone exception of Michigan, where I will root for Texas.

Gimme The Cougars in each of the other two match ups; Wazzou and the Y.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 03, 2018, 03:00:56 PM

Quote from: utee94 on December 03, 2018, 11:06:33 AM

Alright Wolverines, should be a fun match. Friday's my birthday, and I always get my birthday wishes. :)

hope you wished for Friday off from work

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 03, 2018, 07:30:24 PM

Quote from: FearlessF on December 03, 2018, 03:00:56 PM

hope you wished for Friday off from work

Not gonna happen this week, but I should be wrapped up by lunchtime. Might have to head over to the Celis Brewery to watch it... :)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 03, 2018, 07:57:47 PM

I have Friday off

will be ice fishing in Minnesooota

I'll tip a tall Bud Fat in your honor

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 03, 2018, 08:18:22 PM

Thanks!

And I'll tip a Celis White to Winged Helmet.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 03, 2018, 11:09:39 PM

It's very possible that all regional finals will be rematches of regular season matches from this season.

Florida v Texas
Illinois v UW
Marquette v UW
Minnesota v Nebraska
Nebraska v Oregon
Penn St v Stanford
Washington v Washington St

Possible FF rematches
Ill v Minn
Ill v N
N v UW
UW v Minn
BYU v Stan
Penn St v Mich

Possible Finals rematches
Stan v. Minn
Penn St. v. Minn, Ill, UW, Nebraska
Michigan v. Minn, Ill, UW, Nebraska
BYU v Marquette

Seeking first Elite 8
Marquette, Wazzu, San Diego
Seeking first FF
Marquette, Wazzu, San Diego, Kentucky

All time Bridesmaid
Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, BYU, Illinois (not remaining: California)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 04, 2018, 10:33:38 AM

A lot of that due to so many B1G teams in the sweet 16 obviously, but also because in volleyball, it's common and ENCOURAGED to schedule the best OOC early in the season. I love that about this sport.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 06:26:09 PM

https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1071182284089368576

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 06:28:02 PM

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(https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/michigan-fan-no-way.gif?w=600)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 08:53:25 PM

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt29P38U0AEd3qs.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 08:57:48 PM

Dag, the Gophers got knocked out in the Sweet 16 on the year that they host the Final Four?

:57:

https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1071194567683264513

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 09:22:33 PM

So the Elite Eight is

Wisconsin-Illinois
Nebraska-Oregon
BYU-Texas
Penn St-Stanford

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 08, 2018, 01:13:33 AM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 07, 2018, 06:28:02 PM

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(https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/michigan-fan-no-way.gif?w=600)

You seem really disappointed that Michigan lost! ;)
Anyway, congrats to all those that advanced, condolences to those that didn't. Lots of fun matchups in the Elite 8, really hoping Texas can hang in there against BYU.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: GopherRock on December 08, 2018, 08:31:05 AM

Oregon won the second set 41-39, and the Gophers got super tight and played not to lose the rest of the way. We all know what happens when you play not to lose.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 08, 2018, 10:04:12 AM

Stunning set. I had to digest these matches on DVR late last night, didn't see the UO v Minnesota match though. Read about it. Some pretty key 'challenges' in that set, so much so, Minnesota was out of challenges for the match after the 2nd set.

I do recall tOSU beating Ga Tech 48-46 in a tournament set awhile back.

UW v UI at 4pm est ESPNU
N v UO at 6pm est ESPNU
Texas v BYU 8pm est ESPNU
Penn St. v. Stanford 10pm est ESPNU

Perhaps its the novelty of a non-B1G match, or a match I don't recall watching before, but UT v BYU would be the one match I'd most want to see if I had to pick one. Atmosphere will be bonkers, Texas perhaps bitter of not getting the 4 seed over BYU. BYU rallying w/o their 2nd best player. No offense to the other three matches which have happened previously this season.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 10:48:56 AM

My guess is that the Gophers were still rattled from the bat incident @tOSU a few weeks back. O0

I'm pulling for Penn St, Nebraska, Illinois and BYU this round.

So that means it will probably be Stanford, Oregon, Wisconsin and Texas in the Final Four.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 08, 2018, 01:58:31 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 10:48:56 AM

My guess is that the Gophers were still rattled from the bat incident @tOSU a few weeks back. O0

I'm pulling for Penn St, Nebraska, Illinois and BYU this round.

So that means it will probably be Stanford, Oregon, Wisconsin and Texas in the Final Four.

OK. Cool. Hook Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 06:17:15 PM

The Illini knocked out the Badgers.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt7iNH8X4AEmGFS.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: 847badgerfan on December 08, 2018, 06:21:51 PM

That is very Ill-annoying to me.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 07:49:12 PM

The Cornhuskers put on a feather plucking.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt73tiKW4AESIAu.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 09:41:59 PM

Quote from: utee94 on December 08, 2018, 01:58:31 PM

OK. Cool. Hook Em!

Nope.
Horns down!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt8Q_f3WwAA_DRE.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 09, 2018, 12:30:51 AM

So the semifinals will be
Illinois-Nebraska
Stanford-BYU
I'm pulling for the Illini and the Y.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 09, 2018, 01:22:11 AM

I still feel there's Stanford, BYU [gap].........Illinois...Nebraska.

should be two good matches Thursday, not a lot of drama today, though the BYU/UT match was very tight, for a sweep. It was very good TV. PSU really let that 2nd set escape vs Stanford.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 07:22:56 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 08, 2018, 09:41:59 PM

Nope.
Horns down!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt8Q_f3WwAA_DRE.jpg)

3rd party smack. Lame. You're kind of an asshole sometimes.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 07:24:35 PM

Anyway, I didn't expect to see the Horns get past BYU in Provo, but hoped for the best.

Congrats to the remaining 4 teams, should be some fun matches for the semis and the final.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 07:54:39 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on September 08, 2018, 11:32:12 PM

The Cougars will run the table, IF... they survive the BYUte game.

Their conference is awful.

(https://byucougars.com/dl/sites/default/files/styles/related_story_and_photo_ref_360x202_5/public/files/photos/_w1_7939_0.jpg?itok=cVteE9N3)

My third party support of the Cougs has been consistent and unwavering.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:42:41 PM

Ok. Cool. Hook 'Em.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:43:31 PM

Quote from: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:42:41 PM

Ok. Cool. Hook 'Em.

No, wrong again. It was horns down this round.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:45:50 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:43:31 PM

No, wrong again. It was horns down this round.

And once again, you're an asshole.

How'd Ohio State do in the Elite 8?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:49:34 PM

OSU did not do nearly as well as the Y, who swept the schLonghorns in straight sets.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:50:30 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:49:34 PM

OSU did not do nearly as well as the Y, who swept the schLonghorns in straight sets.

tOSU sucks donkey shit through a straw, and so do you. You're a weak, lame, 3rd party-smacking, coattail riding little bitch.

Oh, and Texas has scoreboard on your football team, too, beeeyotch.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:51:53 PM

Yeesh, I was all in on the Horns in the sweet 16.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:53:05 PM

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:51:53 PM

Yeesh, I was all in on the Horns in the sweet 16.

Eh. You're the one that decided to run 3rd party smack. You reap what you sow.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 09:57:40 PM

Some Midol ought to sooth what ails ya.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 10:15:55 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 10:33:41 PM

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/gameon/2012/11/05/hornsgeno-16_9.jpg?width=580&height=326&fit=crop)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 10, 2018, 11:07:28 PM

that's unsportsmanlike

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 11:10:29 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 11:13:15 PM

Your record is skipping.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 11:16:04 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 11:23:02 PM

More reruns?

Thank goodness you were lucky enough to find a career that doesn't require you to be creative.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 11:29:50 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 10, 2018, 11:31:33 PM

So who do you have in the Final Four, now that the Horns have been properly disposed of?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 11:57:39 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 11, 2018, 12:17:45 AM

Oh, they didn't make it to the final four actually. Swept in straight sets by the Y.

Almost as lopsided as the last two times that those two schools met on the gridiron. Almost.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 08:31:32 AM

Speaking of the gridiron-- SCOREBOARD, BEEEEEYOTCH. (No weak-ass 3rd party smack here)

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 11, 2018, 08:41:58 AM

(https://www.sltrib.com/resizer/3cR8yWbr_wdp3aHVIpbC1Rks94I=/0x600/smart/filters:quality(86)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib.s3.amazonaws.com/public/UDFWTLY4ARCN3OEKU2ZUR6RC74.JPG)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 08:46:43 AM

(https://i.ibb.co/ZVQPhXv/cols-play.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZVQPhXv)

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 11, 2018, 08:53:48 AM

eriogfefgi

Quote from: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 07:22:56 PM

You're kind of an asshole sometimes.

Quote from: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:45:50 PM

And once again, you're an asshole.
?

Quote from: utee94 on December 10, 2018, 09:50:30 PM

tOSU sucks donkey shit through a straw, and so do you. You're a weak, lame, 3rd party-smacking, coattail riding little bitch.

Oh, and Texas has scoreboard on your football team, too, beeeyotch.

Gotta make sure we park your Hornbred intellect atop this new page, just in case anyone missed it.
Pretty tight ship the mods are running these days.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 08:57:19 AM

Oh I'm sorry, did I hurt your feelings? If you don't want to be called an asshole, don't act like one.

Oh and by the way, I am a mod. Would you like to be banned? I can take care of that for you.

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 11, 2018, 09:18:33 AM

Dude, you completely lost your composure because some anonymous poster on a message board was rooting against your school in a women's volleyball match.

Seriously, take a step back for a moment and let that sink in.

Volleyball, dude. Volleyball.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 09:46:56 AM

Dude, you decided to be an asshole toward someone you don't know and will never meet, about what you appear to believe is a meaningless volleyball game. Why?

Think about that and let it sink in.

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 11, 2018, 09:50:14 AM

::::grabs popcorn::::

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 09:52:36 AM

Quote from: Entropy on December 11, 2018, 09:50:14 AM

::::grabs popcorn::::

:::: finger moves closer and closer to the "ban entropy" button ::::

Just kidding. :) I've never banned anyone from a message board before. Well, except myself. I did that once.
Anyway, to answer the civil portion of an otherwise insulting question a ways back, I've always liked Stanford so I'll be rooting for them in the final 4. But really I just enjoy volleyball and hope to see competitive matches, I'd be cool with any of the remaining teams winning.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 11, 2018, 09:59:22 AM

Go right ahead and ban me. I didn't say horns down until you started trolling me with the Tom Herman tweet. At that point I was under the impression that we were engaged in some light hearted ribbing. Even when you began cussing me out I wasn't sure that you were serious. It was not until you began belching out the Tom Herman tweet repeatedly like a mental patient that I realized that you really are that big of a toolbox. Now you are editing my posts in order add add in the Tom Herman tweet.

Ban away.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 11, 2018, 10:05:03 AM

Like I said, I've never banned anyone. I'm not going to start with you, I was just joking about that. You haven't broken any board rules (not sure we even have those here) so ban would be an extreme abuse of power. I would limit such an abuse only to, say... banning a Sooner or an Aggie, because screw those guys.

Also, I haven't edited any of your posts, not sure where that's coming from? Although that would have been funny, since the Tom Herman tweet is very cool and worthy of being on every post on this message board.

So in the spirit of Christmas, I'd like to call a truce. Are you ok with that?

Go Buckeyes! (if that's what y'all say up there)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 11, 2018, 11:35:13 AM

I'll be sad if the vball thread gets locked.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 11, 2018, 04:03:33 PM

Volleyball (women's) is VERY important to a few of us

no, don't think about that for even a minute - it's depressing

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 11, 2018, 09:19:47 PM

Moneylines for Thursday
Stanford -175 v BYU +135
Nebraska -315 v Illinois +235

Spreads
Stanford -1 1/2 (+155) v BYU +1 1/2 (-195) (If bet Stanford, they must win in 3 or 4 sets to win, decent value bet)
Nebraska -1 1/2 (-160) v Ill +1 1/2 (+120) (If bet Neb., they must win in 3 or 4 sets to win, not a good value -160)

Illinois is a massive money line dog to win the title +1450 vs Stanford, +1485 vs BYU (that's betting before semis)
Illinois to win the title against either opponent right now is +940. Huge value bet, IMO.
No respect for the 3rd seed Illini. Nebraska is a small money line favorite over the field to win the title, though would be a slight dog to Stanford head to head. There's some arbitrage in that.

I'll be surprised if BYU v Stanford winner doesn't win on Saturday.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 11, 2018, 10:26:15 PM

don't count out Cook

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 11, 2018, 11:15:20 PM

I'm not. They have mastered the art of slowing anybody's offense down, with tough serves, forcing team's out of system, making team's set to the obvious and only choice and then having such great block and floor defense. All of this with a 'not bad' offense and a freshman setter, who has come on lately. The reason Minnesota handled them so well this season is they had several reliable options when out of system and an elite setter. Illinois can be that good and were in Lincoln this year.

Illinois' got that too (at least the setter part). They are red hot. Stanford and BYU have lots of weapons too and plus Setters. The 3 best players in the FF are on other teams, fortunately, only one on each of them. Nebraska will have to have good production from Sun, and particularly Sweet. Oh yeah, Foecke has to be Foecke it is December after all.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 11, 2018, 11:26:19 PM

I don't think Nebraska was the best team in the final 4 last season, yet..... there they were

in a 4-team single elimination tournament - almost anything can happen

I should probably put $100 on Illinois

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 12, 2018, 10:04:55 AM

experienced setters matter at this point... Regardless of what happens, UNL fans and program have to be thrilled with the improvement over the season, especially considering they had a true freshman setter.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 13, 2018, 03:09:25 PM

Alright. I am pulling for BYU to win this thing. If Stanford wins tonight then I will be rooting for the Big Ten team in the final. Thus my rooting interest in the Nebraska-Illinois game depends on the outcome of the BYU-Stanford game. If the Y wins then I will be pulling for the Illini. If Stanford wins then I will pull for the Huskers. I apologize in advance to anyone whose feelings might be hurt if I am rooting against their team.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 03:11:48 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 13, 2018, 03:39:43 PM

It would actually be pretty funny if we had some random Stanford fan lurking who was inspired to create an account just to cuss me out for rooting against the Cardinal in both games.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 03:55:56 PM

Of course I'm pulling for Nebraska but I do want to see some new blood win the title for this sport. There is so much more depth of competition than the old days but it is still dominated by the vball helmets. Only one new champion since the 90s.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 13, 2018, 04:08:12 PM

booo...go big red!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 07:07:43 PM

GO BIG RED!!!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 13, 2018, 07:32:36 PM

You guys are making me feel like I'm at a Denison game.

(https://cdn2.hercampus.com/styles/full_width_embed/s3/2014/10/30/1_3.png)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 08:00:59 PM

Stanford serving some cold revenge thus far. Wow.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 08:03:32 PM

you have the WRONG feeling

Nebraska Volleyball Championship Point - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjZB09kZb4)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 08:04:53 PM

Quote from: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 08:00:59 PM

Stanford serving some cold revenge thus far. Wow.

no way in heck that the lady huskers can hang with those Trees in the championship match
NO WAY!!!
in HECK

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 13, 2018, 08:07:40 PM

Yeah, it looks like I'll be having to ride your big red coattails over the finish line.

Apologies to home girl Atherton.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 08:20:16 PM

Still awaiting a great match in this tournament. A couple elite sets but lots of beatings.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 13, 2018, 08:21:09 PM

Turns out Stanford's pretty good. Probably a good thing we didn't get the chance to go 0-3 against them this season.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 13, 2018, 08:35:46 PM

Alrighty then. Go Big Red!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 09:42:45 PM

Stivrins a missing person in set 1. Shaky passing hasn't helped either. Credit to Ill. Poulter and Quade doing their thing. They keep the serve pressure up, this won't go 4.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 13, 2018, 09:50:21 PM

Nebraska getting their own medicine. Did you get my value bet down on Illinois Fearless?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 09:52:25 PM

I wish

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 13, 2018, 10:53:12 PM

Tough hill to climb but do-able...

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 10:55:21 PM

where did Capri Davis come from?

did someone get injured?

did Capri just emerge in practice late?

why isn't Stivrins getting set?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 11:17:51 PM

Maloney can dig it!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 11:42:58 PM

Quote from: utee94 on December 13, 2018, 10:53:12 PM

Tough hill to climb but do-able...

you know yer Volleyball!!!
5-set WIN!!!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 13, 2018, 11:44:58 PM

Illinois beefed it.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 11:57:29 PM

Nebraska beefed it in the 2nd set

the other 4 sets were played fairly well by both squads

I know, cause I was watching!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 14, 2018, 12:02:18 AM

Illinois really gifted that match.

Capri Davis. She's a scheduled platoon left side hitter for one rotation subbing w Jazz Sweet. She comes in on queue and gets a swing in her spot. It is odd but Cook makes it work. Thanks to having 3 six rotation players.

Stivirins didn't get sets early because the passing was crap. When you serve and receive like crap and you're out of system you can't possibly set to the middle or a slide attack . That changed a bit in set 3, 4 and 5.

Nebraska escapes. Need to play much better to avoid a sweep on Sat .

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 14, 2018, 12:11:28 AM

gonna get swept

we're DOOMED!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 14, 2018, 12:31:40 AM

I'll play that card, but there's no way there going to be able to spot 1 or 2 sets on Saturday. That match was a clinic (as was the BYU/Stanford match) on how aggressive serve, and serve receive can determine a match. All these attackers and blockers are great, but at this level, you have to stay in the match with good passing.

Illinois finally started hitting service errors which helped too down the stretch.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 14, 2018, 07:56:13 AM

Quote from: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 11:42:58 PM

you know yer Volleyball!!!
5-set WIN!!!

Very nice comeback from the Huskers, well-done!
I predict Stanford-Nebraska will NOT be a sweep in either direction. :)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 14, 2018, 10:25:10 AM

Stanford is good.. very impressive. I'm not sure UNL can win a set.

All that said, what a year for the huskers. 8 new players and you return to the finals. Heck of a season... Exceeded expectations.... fans and program should be proud.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 14, 2018, 03:49:05 PM

5dimes money line.
Stanford -150
Nebraska +120

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 14, 2018, 07:48:12 PM

(https://i.etsystatic.com/15652290/r/il/7e5d2d/1354026700/il_570xN.1354026700_4xl4.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 15, 2018, 01:30:53 PM

Quote from: Entropy on December 14, 2018, 10:25:10 AM

Stanford is good.. very impressive. I'm not sure UNL can win a set.

All that said, what a year for the huskers. 8 new players and you return to the finals. Heck of a season... Exceeded expectations.... fans and program should be proud.

true, especially the first line
damn, I'm going to Minneapolis this afternoon to be at the Viking's game tomorrow. I should go scalp a ticket and watch this match.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 15, 2018, 02:00:56 PM

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Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: The Loon on December 15, 2018, 06:51:18 PM

Bought 5 tickets, back in January, for the Volleyball event this weekend. Turned out my middle kid had a school concert that she didn't want to miss. Another kid didn't want to miss her own volleyball practice. What the !#?! So Mom stayed backed and took care of them.

Invited my Nebraska native neighbor and his two kids. We skipped the first match due to after school activities & homework. I've never seen so many tall people congregated in one area- the main floor concourse. Everyone but me was over 6 ft. We even saw the 6'8 Wisconsin gal. It was something.

What a match! #7 from Illinois was impressive. But Nebraska just seemed like the better overall team. Great atmosphere with a ton of Nebraska fans.

Woke up Friday and asked my kids if they were excited to go Saturday night. I heard one "meh" and an "I don't care". Put the tickets on Stub Hub- 20 min later they sold for $695...paid $390. Thank you Nebraska!

Go Huskers tonight!

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 15, 2018, 08:49:00 PM

(https://www.collegeflagsandbanners.com/images_products/iu_hoosiers_go_big_red_flag_85750sma.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 15, 2018, 11:53:05 PM

Quote from: FearlessF on December 13, 2018, 03:11:48 PM

OK. Cool. Hook 'Em!

Nope.
Horns down.
https://twitter.com/Huskervball/status/1074165046450753536

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 16, 2018, 12:11:25 AM

A superb finals match for first time in awhile. High level play all around. Stanford's serve edge in sets 1 and 5 really the marginal difference in the match.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 16, 2018, 12:14:44 AM

Each team had one set where they just annihilated the other. Crazy match.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 16, 2018, 03:24:47 PM

Cook and the team impressed me last night. They really played well and rose to the occasion.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 17, 2018, 08:13:41 AM

Told ya neither team would sweep. Condolences to the Huskers, congrats to the Cardinal.

Is it college baseball season yet?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 17, 2018, 08:42:13 AM

It is kind of funny to watch Stanford fans defend the gun, while Nebraska fans are snow flaking out.

You would think that it would be the other way around.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dug-Ug4VsAYkIet.jpg)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 17, 2018, 09:50:06 AM

to hell THE huskers... lol

I do think it speaks poorly of their staff. You'd also think such a liberal school like stanford would be all over gun violence. But they won so it's excusable.

Most UNL fans are probably upset because they had a higher opinion of stanford and want to defend their team. sports fans..

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 17, 2018, 09:51:27 AM

I'd say the bigger issue would be running with scissors. Lol.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 17, 2018, 10:00:05 AM

it has less to do with volleyball than the whole "you're a fly over state".... Nebraskan's get bitter about the coastal perceptions.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 17, 2018, 10:03:16 AM

btw.. I do agree with you on the snowflake thing. In general, everyone defends their team and their honor. Husker fans would not be this "responsive" if the drawing was of Illinois.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: MarqHusker on December 17, 2018, 10:42:48 AM

This must be one of those stories that Yahoo loves and that only exists in the bowels of the internet.
'Locker room drawing breaks the internet ...you won't believe what happened next...'

Bottom news, faux outrage, etc.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: utee94 on December 17, 2018, 11:02:29 AM

I hadn't seen or heard about it, other than this thread on this message board. Maybe my internet was already broken?

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Entropy on December 17, 2018, 11:13:01 AM

Nebraska media wrote about it but other than that, I haven't even seen it trend.

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 17, 2018, 07:20:53 PM

I didn't hear about it until seeing this page

what was on the Husker white board for motivation

you know, the stuff that didn't work

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 17, 2018, 08:09:46 PM

So what is the success rate of a VB player coming back from a knee injury the likes of the one that was suffered by McKenna Miller?

(https://media.deseretdigital.com/file/b3420c5851?resize=width_1200&order=resize,crop&type=jpg&c=3&a=9ac95963)

Title: Re: B1G Women's Volleyball 2018
Post by: FearlessF on December 27, 2018, 11:47:44 AM

Nebraska volleyball head coach John Cook was named national coach of the year by VolleyballMag.com on Wednesday, and three Huskers were chosen to the website's All-America teams.

Cook led the Huskers to the final four for the fourth straight season, as the Huskers also advanced to the national title match for the third time in the last four years. With a roster featuring eight new players and five freshmen, the Huskers went down to the wire with No. 1 Stanford before falling a few points shy of back-to-back national championships. Early in the season, Cook became the 10th active Division I head coach and 27th all-time to reach 700 career wins.

Senior outside hitter Mikaela Foecke and sophomore middle blocker Lauren Stivrins were named first-team All-Americans by VolleyballMag.com, just as they were by the AVCA earlier this month. Senior libero Kenzie Maloney was named a second-team All-American, and freshman setter Nicklin Hames received honorable mention.