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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: MarqHusker on August 24, 2021, 12:34:24 AM
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Yeah, Kentucky won the 2020 title played this past spring but the 2021 season starts this week as well.
Texas our preseason #1. Usual suspects in the T10. Can WI stop being a bridesmaid? Is Ohio State for real. Hey, Rutgers has a pulse. Where will Nebraska play all these new blue chips. Is Russ Rose out of gas? Is Kathy George going to hang around much longer? Purdue FF caliber? BTN? BTN with some good coverage which I'm sure will drop off once hoops starts.
Covid has left us with a quirky situation of crowded rosters and some seniors that have decided to come back thanks to the NCAA allowing another year of eligibility.
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Minnesota gagged that 4th set vs Baylor last night. Baylor will play Wisconsin tonight on TV. With this Covid super senior eligibility, some of these rosters are quite bloated.
Meanwhile, Penn St lost season opener to GA Tech.
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Horns play Minnesota on Wednesday up in Minneapolis. Swept #20 San Diego in Austin last night.
Here we go.
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https://twitter.com/OhioStateWVB/status/1431440788253196295?s=20
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OSU took down big bad UDub, collecting a Pac 12 scalp for the mantel.
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Ugh, MSU is going to lose to Wright State aren't we?
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Ugh, MSU is going to lose to Wright State aren't we?
Wow, that's not ideal.
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If it makes you feel any better, Omaha just pushed Nebraska to 5 sets this afternoon. Granted it's a doubleheader day and there were a few roster quirks for N today to manage, some odd lineups but those matches can be good scares.
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a win is a win
hopefully a learning experience
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Not to worry. MSU rebounded by beating the shorts off of my Trailblazers this morning. :o
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Not to worry. MSU rebounded by beating the shorts off of my Trailblazers this morning. :o
Saw that. Seems like a couple cupcakes to set up for MSU-BYU tomorrow night. Cougars should win
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good match in Lincoln on the BTN
Huskers vs the Dawgs from Georgia
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Swept out the ole Texas Tech hoedown.
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Last Wednesday I went to the Pavillion and watched the Gophers get beat by Texas.
Question for those of you who know far more about volleyball than I do: is it normal for a team to win a match despite a ton of service errors? I feel that the Horns could have made even shorter work of the Gophers had their serving been tolerable.
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You have to serve tough in order to get the opponent out of system (minimize the options for the setter to get the ball to the attacker of their choosing).
It's not as simple as looking only at service errors vs aces. Coaches will accept service errors, provided they are also yielding results as a result of serving tough with Aces or lousy serve receive.
I find at times announcers read into the total errors too much. Like obsessing over 3rd down conversion rates.
Texas' Melanie Parra was exceptional serving in that match, and it wasn't about the aces and she had errors. If you lollipop a serve all day to Minnesota. Stephanie Sameday would have 45 kills. Minnesota had a rough night,in particular CC Mcgraw.
Btw a penn st fan's 2004-2015 study of service ace and error correlation yielded no firm conclusion . Need more context, and include other stats (opp hit percentage, receive pass scores)
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You have to serve tough in order to get the opponent out of system (minimize the options for the setter to get the ball to the attacker of their choosing).
It's not as simple as looking only at service errors vs aces. Coaches will accept service errors, provided they are also yielding results as a result of serving tough with Aces or lousy serve receive.
I find at times announcers read into the total errors too much. Like obsessing over 3rd down conversion rates.
Texas' Melanie Parra was exceptional serving in that match, and it wasn't about the aces and she had errors. If you lollipop a serve all day to Minnesota. Stephanie Sameday would have 45 kills. Minnesota had a rough night,in particular CC Mcgraw.
Btw a penn st fan's 2004-2015 study of service ace and error correlation yielded no firm conclusion . Need more context, and include other stats (opp hit percentage, receive pass scores)
Yeah just saw GR's comment and you beat me to it. 20-30 years ago I think the errors vs. out-of-system wasn't understood as well as it is today.
In many sports, you have to push to the ragged edge and accept some failures, in order to optimize your chances of success. Serving is very much like that in today's version of volleyball.
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Very true. In rally scoring era, a team's side out % is in that 60% range, typically. If you want to minimize that, as the serving team you have to serve tough.
Next time you watch volleyball, focus only on the serve receive and the quality of that first contact to the setter. That will be a better indicator than anything else, of how good the serving team is at serving among other things. USA women, we're supremely elite at serve receive at the Olympics, thanks to two Huskers of course..
Naturally you can't tolerate unusually high service error rates. That killed the US Men's team in Tokyo.
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Thanks for the info, guys.
I know Texas is the #1 team in the country, and they certainly looked the part going on a tear at the end of the first set. If the Horns could have cleaned up their service (and receipt), they could have made that match a lot shorter than it was.
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Very perceptive. I won't rag on the Horns, but if you want to poke or criticize UT over the years, their biggest problem has been serve receive and passing.
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Very perceptive. I won't rag on the Horns, but if you want to poke or criticize UT over the years, their biggest problem has been serve receive and passing.
Absolutely. Serve receive and the critical first pass, are arguably what has cost Texas the most in its recent trips to the final 4 and championship game.
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Nebraska at Creighton Wednesday night on FS1. 630ct. Should be crowd of 14k easy Giddy up.
Creighton wiped the floor with Kentucky last Saturday in Lexington.
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unfortunately, I'll be on the golf course
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Yeah that sounds like a horrible way to have to spend your time.
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So Nebraska hit .170 last night (which isn't very good) yet basically served/passed/dug Creighton off the court. Basically, the back row won the match themselves. Clinical passing/defense and serving.
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defense wins championships
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MSU hosting UNC and Duke this weekend. Big names, no clue what they are like as volleyball programs.
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Unc has probably been underachieving of late. Fringe ranked team, 30ish. Duke a little bit behind that.
Either would be a good win for MSU, I think their RPI future is in the 80s. This feels like the lowest I can remember MSU's volleyball standing. Perhaps I've overlooked a low period between late 90s and now. Kind of fell off a cliff here quickly.
However, COVID has led to the cancelation of the matches. MSU really snakebitten again with CV.
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Yeah, we lost like a month of the season last year
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3 more Ws in Virginia
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https://twitter.com/UtahVolleyball/status/1436895429359243269?s=20
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Weird match. Nebraska w a lot to figure out offensively. Hames has to play better too. Guessing more lineup tweaks ahead.
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The Utes follow up their monster win over Nebraska by barfing up a match @ Boise St.
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The Utes follow up their monster win over Nebraska by barfing up a match @ Boise St.
I have a hard time believing a team would upset Nebraska and then immediately crap the bed
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Who the hell scheduled a Monday late afternoon match in Boise after playing a 3 hour match that ends on Saturday night in Lincoln? Did they even return to SLC? a Monday match period.
Boise isn't dog poo but that's just dumb planning.
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Gotta keep 'em on their toes.
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OSU goes 2-0 vs the Domers in a H-A series.
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RV?
I prefer NW
not worthy
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Knocked off the Boilers...
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Columbus hosts FF this year. Will tOSU be there?
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Still need a coaching change, but a much needed road upset over #7 Purdue in 5 sets tonight.
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Didn't see that coming. I know Purdue has been nursing some kids and Newton struggled tonight but that was some inspired play by MSU. No nights off in this league. Pesky Iowa got swept but gave Nebraska fits tonight. Some heavyweight matches coming up soon for the upper half of the league.
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listened to the Huskers/Hawks on the radio while driving
a contested match
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listened to the Huskers/Hawks on the radio while driving
a contested match
Man, that has to rank right between soccer and auto racing as a radio sport
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I hadn't clicked this thread until now, and I'm extremely disappointed. Not nearly enough photos.
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Of course I'm a Homer but there's no doubt John Baylor is an excellent radio broadcaster of volleyball. He's really good. As with basketball there are dimensions of the game which are very hard to follow on radio as a listener but he's got skill.
Requires a very sharp understanding of the game. I think he's been doing it now 28 years? I suspect there aren't many doing who are any good.
Strangely I find the Indy 500 a worthy event for radio. It's a Very high quality production. Other racing on radio is at best background noise. Never tried soccer. Xm's golf coverage is good.
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John Baylor will give you a "BOOM" once in a while for a hard hit Husker kill!
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I hadn't clicked this thread until now, and I'm extremely disappointed. Not nearly enough photos.
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hah, reminds me of seeing Dave Hoppen and his girlfriend together in the dorm by in 1982
his cowboys boots didn't help, or his big belt buckle
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good entertaining match in Madison
nice come from behind 5 set win by the Badgerettes
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MSU back to the mean
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Huskerettes win in Lincoln over #7 Purdue
3-1
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See, if someone dug up their bones in a million years, they're not classifying them in the same species, are they?
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No comment.
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lol, this made me look up the roster. Look at the difference between 2015 heights and 2021, for Florida:
6'4, 6'1, 6'0, 5'10, 6'2, 5'6, 6'0, 6'2, 6'0, 6'1, 6'2, 5'6, 5'9, 5'5, 5'9
6'2, 6'1, 6'1, 6'4, 5'9, 6'4, 6'3, 6'3, 6'3, 6'0, 5'7, 6'3, 6'6
Going from one 6'3+ player to seven of them in a handful of years. Evolution before our eyes!!!
That picture is probably a chick from AZ who was 6'8 and the Alabama girl is obviously a hobbit.
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Idk, most of these volleyball chicks are like wrasslin' divas.....when they're around each other, they look bangin'. When you put them next to ordinary people, they look like scary monsters.
No offense to anyone.
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The Nebraska volleyball team's Saturday, Nov. 6 match at Ohio State has been set for a 6 p.m. CT start time.
The contest will be streamed on Big Ten Network+ from the Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio, and heard on the Huskers Radio Network.
The Huskers, who lead the Big Ten at 10-0 in conference play, have two top-15 matchups this week, facing No. 3 Wisconsin on Wednesday, Oct. 27 and No. 11 Minnesota on Saturday, Oct. 30.
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Swept
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MSU seems to only play well against good opposition. Choked away the first set against OSU, hopefully they hang on here in the second
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Purdue knocked off the big bad Badgers.
https://twitter.com/BadgerVB/status/1454878524683194374?s=20
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Gave PSU everything they wanted, but fell 15-13 in the 5th
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Well that was easy...
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#1 UT drops one at Baylor. Will Louisville be #1?.
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Another ranked win...
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Went to IU's Wilkinson Hall today for the volleyball match. Probably half Nebraska fans in the crowd of 1500 or so. This might be the worst offensive Nebraska team I can remember. IU won the first and Nebraska errored its way to a 4 set win. Really nice new facility for IU a massive upgrade from probably one of the saddest P5 gyms.
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Rutgers forfeiting match at Minn Friday. Non Covid reasons. Wonder if same will occur at Nebraska this weekend.
These will count in Big Ten standings as a W for Minn and a loss for Rutgers. Ncaa/rpi will ignore this.
Hmm, thats senior night and 8,200 paying customers. Rutgers FWIW is winless in conference this season .
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don't seem right if tickets are sold
Rutgers should show up and take the loss
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don't seem right if tickets are sold
Rutgers should show up and take the loss
Yup. Sounds like some serious bulljive to me.
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The No. 11 Nebraska volleyball team's regular-season home finale with Rutgers scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 20 has been canceled due to non-COVID related illnesses within the Scarlet Knights' program, it was announced Thursday.
The decision was reached based on guidance from RU's medical staff out of an abundance of caution surrounding the health and safety of participants from both programs. In alignment with Big Ten forfeiture policies, the match will be recorded as a loss for Rutgers, and Nebraska will be credited with a win in the Big Ten standings.
Ticket holders will be refunded for tickets and parking purchased for the canceled match. Refunds will be issued by the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office at the conclusion of the season.
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I did confirm and learn this is the lowest hitting percentage Nebraska team since they have kept records (1983). They played pretty doggone well tonight, sweeping Penn St. Service pressure was beautiful. Hord was taken out of the match. With the Rutgers forfeit, not that they would threaten Minn or N this weekend,, leaves next weekend to decide the conference. At this point down to Nebraska, Wisconsin, Purdue and Minnesota. A cluster of matches between the four between this Sunday and next weekend.
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what the heck happened to Penn St.?
they are not a bad team obviously, but they are no where near the level they were a few seasons ago
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Same thing that happened to the Penn St football team.
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They have two elite AA level players in Hord and Parker, I just see a team that isn't very good in Serve, Serve receive. Still a quality team but doesn't seem FF claiber. Of course I don't think Nebraska is FF caliber either.
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neither do I, regarding the Huskers
that's why the 2nd set comeback and the sweep makes me feel like Penn State has really slipped
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WTF?
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How's the weather down there in the double digit seeds?
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Huskers gonna have to take down Kentucky and Texas
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That's what happens when you are a lowly 10 seed.
Us 9 seeds have a much cleaner path. :111:
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yup, the Bucks get #1 Louisville, the Huskers get #2 Texas
Good luck!
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Louisville is going to trip over one of the road apples before they get to the OSU match.
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that would be better than good luck
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No way Kentucky and Louisville win back to back NCs.
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Mac Champion Ball St gets rewarded with a winnable match in the opening round.
https://twitter.com/BallStateWVB/status/1465135276976660481?s=20
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That would've been a helluva prop bet a year ago.
Probably the least college vball I've been able to watch in several years for me this year despite going to watch a couple matches in person. Louisville is quite good as is Pitt. I did manage to see those two matches Hard to imagine the ACC two top 4 seeds, more than the Pac and Big Ten combined. Hope we get to see the sequined red jacket again by Busboom.
I'll wager UT, though not without some possible obstacles before the FF. Hilarious to see a possible Nebraska v Wash match-up in the regional for the zillionth time. Kentucky has other plans I assume. Last time Nebraska was bounced before elite 8 was ten years ago when they lost in the second round to Kstate. First time they missed sweet sixteen in decades. Could see that match-up this weekend.
My daughters club team offering us chance to buy tix to final in Cbus. I find that odd they have that kind of pull. Won't make it unfortunately.
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Chalk tonight in the small handful of 1st round games. Texas, Baylor, Purdue, Florida the only 4 of the 16 seeded teams to play all won w/o fuss. The 5th, #14 Creighton won in 3 over Ole Miss, but their outstanding OH Jaela Zimmerman went down with a very bad leg injury. I didn't see footage, but some really bad comps. were being offered as parallels.
Creighton gets Kansas, winner over Oregon, in round 2, Purdue v Dayton, which dispatched Marquette in 4.
Texas v Rice could be interesting (I doubt it).
Everybody else plays Friday.
tOSU v Howard
UW v Colgate
Minnesota v South Dakota
Nebraska v Campbell
Michigan v Ball St
Illinois v WVA
Penn St v Towson (looking ahead to a second round match with #3 Pitt I presume)
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Ball state w a digging clinic beats Michigan in 5 sets.
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Yup
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Fun fact: the OSU Baseball Coach's daughter plays for the Wolverine VB team.
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BIG Ten sans Michigan moving on tonight. Purdue did the reverse sweep thing to fend off Dayton to get to SW 16.
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Illinois takes down defending Champs in Lexington.
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Minnesota sweeps Stanford, UW and N also sweep 2nd round matches.
Pitt takes out Penn St in 4 sets.
6 make it to sweet sixteen. About what I would expect.
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The Huskers advance to the volleyball Sweet 16 with a sweep of Florida State and now will face Illinois in Austin.
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The Huskers advance to the volleyball Sweet 16 with a sweep of Florida State and now will face Illinois in Austin.
Come to Butthead... :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT-qCzPoIOM
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Nice, succinct summary of the Sweet 16 sites, matchups, and game times:
https://twitter.com/NCAAVolleyball/status/1467593011240607744/photo/1
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Osu v GT and KU v Pitt w the short straws of espn+.
Which by the way was a mostly failure this past week as the almost exclusive means of broadcast for rounds 1 and 2.
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Osu v GT and KU v Pitt w the short straws of espn+.
Which by the way was a mostly failure this past week as the almost exclusive means of broadcast for rounds 1 and 2.
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Louisville, Pitt and GT sweep opponents.
Purdue in 5 over BYU.
Minnesota grinds out a 5 set win over Baylor.
3 more matches later on U.
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Wis and Nebraska sweep.
Meanwhile Texas demos the story of the Longhorns the past decade. Mind-numbing serve receive problems and incredible offense. Washington mostly dominates for 2+ sets and just falls apart. UT serve really kept then alive in the 3rd.
A tough review of a point grazing, maybe,, the antenna and UW never recovers losing 25-22 in the 3rd. Boat raced 25-9 in the 4th and a meek effort losing 15-9.
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Saturday
GT at Louisville @4
Purdue at Pitt @6
Minnesota at Wisconsin @8
Nebraska at Texas@10
Espnu all times Est.
Louisville regional winner v Madison regional winner will face each other in FF.
Pitt regional v Austin regional in other semi.
10 years in a row in elite 8 for N and UT.
Acc assured to have its 2nd FF participant all time.
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Wis and Nebraska sweep.
Meanwhile Texas demos the story of the Longhorns the past decade. Mind-numbing serve receive problems and incredible offense. Washington mostly dominates for 2+ sets and just falls apart. UT serve really kept then alive in the 3rd.
A tough review of a point grazing, maybe,, the antenna and UW never recovers losing 25-22 in the 3rd. Boat raced 25-9 in the 4th and a meek effort losing 15-9.
The serve receive is just disheartening. The offense was enjoyable to watch, though.
After the turn, it was all Texas, the Huskies had no answer. Hoping for that final 2 set Longhorn team from last night, to show up against your Huskers tomorrow.
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It's on like Donkey Kong
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Sure would be nice to send that traitorous Lexi out with 2 tournament losses to the Horns. :)
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I think she's on to jewelry pitches. I don't see her on the court Saturday unless Batenhorst is a mess. She was a little messy in S1 but turned it around. Youth will be served imo Saturday, win or lose. Gonna see Krause and Batenhorst.
Btw: hilarious seeing 6-4 Stivrins playing middle back last night, digging, a BIC and even tried to set a ball. What's not to like about that?
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I like it if it works and we get the win over the arrogant Horns
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The 10th-seeded Nebraska volleyball team (24-7) plays in its 10th straight NCAA Regional Final this Saturday, Dec. 11, facing No. 2 seed Texas (27-1) at Gregory Gym in Austin, Texas. First serve is set for 9 p.m. on ESPNU with Paul Sunderland handling play-by-play duties and Salima Rockwell providing color commentary.
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9pm?!?!?!?
5 of us are taking the 6th guy out for prime rib & shrimp dinner at a small town bar in Homer, NE Saturday at 5:30pm
we're going early to get some medium rare prime rib - it's very good, been there a few times
the problem???
after eating that huge meal and drinking a few beers, how in the hell can I possibly stay awake for this late match?
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On paper the way ESPNU handles the elite 8 makes sense. All four matches are on in a row, 4, 6, 8 and 10pm ET. In most years, there's probably going to be a MT/PT host regional, and easy to put that up at 10pm ET. This year, its 2 CT zone, 2 ETzone hosts, somebody's gonna get the 10pm slot. With the Austin regional predictably getting the 7:30/9:30 on Thursday night with the two remaining blue bloods, Washington and Illinois to boot, its a no brainer to keep them at 10pm, considering they are easily the furthest west remaining participants.
of course we're probably talking about 300-350k viewers over 150k. Saturday night TV isn't exactly viewing priority. I like the day off b/t Sweet 16 and regional final nights.
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If you can tolerate the maroon doing the PBP, damn good match brewing on espn u w Purdue at Pitt tied at 1-1.
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Damn. Impressive match by Pitt. One of the better names. Lekotor Member-Meneh unstoppable. Pitt advances to FF.
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Louisville in 4 fun sets defeats GT. The yellow jackets were certainly worthy, I hadnt seen them play all year. The Brazilian player was an absolute machine. Probably had 65 swings.
2 ACC teams in the FF, after yielding just 1 in the previous 40 tournaments.
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Wisconsin handles Minn.
Nebraska's freshman take down Texas in 4 in Austin.
Poor serve receive and frankly lousy passing did in the Horns tonight. Kubiak hit negative for Nebraska and Stivrins did little. It was the freshman carrying the load for Nebraska. Amazing play by Batenhorst, Houston native for Nebraska. Roddy at libero was wonderful. Krause was so good. This team hit a historically dreadful. 220, worst since at least '83 and they are in their 16th final four.
Btw: refs made some hideous calls, both ways, the worst a key point at 17-12 in the 4th. Eggleston called for a throw after the chair Ref had let it go on two earlier ocassions in much more egregious fashion. It was BS.
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was a bad call
tough competitive match
I was able to stay awake
so you're saying there's a chance
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Wisconsin handles Minn.
Nebraska's freshman take down Texas in 4 in Austin.
Poor serve receive and frankly lousy passing did in the Horns tonight. Kubiak hit negative for Nebraska and Stivrins did little. It was the freshman carrying the load for Nebraska. Amazing play by Batenhorst, Houston native for Nebraska. Roddy at libero was wonderful. Krause was so good. This team hit a historically dreadful. 220, worst since at least '83 and they are in their 16th final four.
Btw: refs made some hideous calls, both ways, the worst a key point at 17-12 in the 4th. Eggleston called for a throw after the chair Ref had let it go on two earlier ocassions in much more egregious fashion. It was BS.
I'm trying to recall how many Final Fours and title games UW has been to of late. I know they made a big run in the early 2000s, then the team got better, but the NCAA success didn't. Feels like they've been in it a lot.
(Looked it up, looks like four FFs and two finals appearances since the current coach arrived, pretty solid)
Louisville being good makes all the sense in the world to me. I'm surprised this is their first final four trip.
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So it's definitely going to be a Nebraska-Wisconsin NCM?
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if the Huskers can beat Pitt Thursday
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I think any scenario is likely in this FF.
We have a perennial brides maid with a ton of super seniors, including probably the best singular player remaining in Rettke. Can they finally show up at this stage? They were humbled by UT and Stanford last couple years. Best team on paper in this FF imo.
Louisville is undefeated, manhandled Nebraska in Lincoln in Sept, beat Pitt twice, and is a classic sum of parts type of quality team. Busboom, former Husker player and former asst coach at Nebraska would be first ever Woman HC to win a title.
Pitt probably has the best remaining offensive team, though Texas saw how that could play out against a good defense. If Nebraska serves them as soft as Purdue did, the Panthers will run Nebraska out.
Nebraska lost seven matches this year, more than the other 3 participants combined. Suddenly we should expect the two Freshman hitters to duplicate their only other great performance of the season? I don't care how good the defense is, they can't win two more matches against this caliber without terminators stepping up at the pins. I'm not betting this team based on the performance vs UT. Cook is certainly the master of December peaking, still need Pins to perform.
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Congrats to the Husker, just too much for the Horns last weekend. Best of luck in the FF!
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Louisville -190 Wisconsin +135
Pittsburgh -200 Nebraska +140
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Louisville - Wisconsin currently
in a tussle
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Huskers are gritty!
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Yeah, I'm not sure I'd put this Nebraska team in their own Top 15 teams in school history, but here they are.
Pitt is really good. They needed to serve aggressive and they did, the errors did pile up, and frankly Nebraska finally got the block to catch up and slow down the match.
Should be fun match Saturday. Wisconsin had a great contribution of their own from a newbie. Candidly, without her I think Louisville squeezes that out. Great 5th set by Wisconsin.
I feel like Nebraska is an imposter at this FF. Perhaps jaded by the garbage I witnessed in person last month at IU. Wheels turning now I guess.
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Wisconsin rolls.
They block everything on defense, and they drop atomic bombs on offense.
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yup, watching the Wisconsin/Louisville match, no way the Huskers can hang, BUT.............
ya never know
winning 3 in one season vs John Cook is tough, but the Badgers have won 7 in a row vs Cook
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Wisconsin is -155
Nebraska +115.
Chatter Batenhorst may have an injured left wrist from her tumble Thursday. That would be a problem.
Will be a different roster match-up for both teams compared to first two matches.
On paper UW has no business losing this match.
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Sure would be nice to send that traitorous Lexi out with 2 tournament losses to the Horns. :)
As the official’s whistle sounded for the final time on Saturday night, signifying the final point in No. 10 Nebraska’s win over No. 2 Texas in the Austin Regional Final, ESPNU’s television cameras captured a moment of pure joy as the players from Nebraska’s bench sprinted out onto the court to celebrate with their teammates that had just completed the four-set win.
Among them was Lexi Sun, the two-time All-American and All-Big Ten outside hitter who chose to return for a fifth season of eligibility. Sun spent her first three years in Lincoln as starter, but she hasn’t played one point since the first round of this year’s NCAA Tournament. She watched from the bench as two freshmen led the Huskers to a win over her former team, just eight months after the Longhorns ended the Huskers’ season in the Elite Eight in Omaha (Sun started and hit .000 in that match).
Yet she was leading the charge off the bench, overcome with emotion as she embraced her teammates. “I’m so proud of you,” she appeared to say to Madi Kubik, the junior who stepped into Sun’s shoes as the team’s go-to hitter this season.
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YEEEEAAAHHHHHHH CHHHAAAAAMMMMMPPPPPSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
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That was quality TV. Nebraska almost stole that one. Really bummed with that 2nd set. Obviously it was a deuce set and each side had multiple shots, just didn't need to get to that for Nebraska. Series of errors (ie reg season offense resurfaced). To be that close and get blocked 25 times or whatever. That would have been some upset with those numbers. Masterful coaching and of course brilliant defense, 90 digs! I'm not certain, but that might be the tightest 5 set final in history.
Nice to see more new Champs for vball. Maybe someday, others will recognize that this and not womens basketball, is the sport espn should be pimping. Congratulations to Wisconsin and Sheffield, a Shondell disciple. That's two Munciana alum in a row.
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That was quality TV. Nebraska almost stole that one. Really bummed with that 2nd set. Obviously it was a deuce set and each side had multiple shots, just didn't need to get to that for Nebraska. Series of errors (ie reg season offense resurfaced). To be that close and get blocked 25 times or whatever. That would have been some upset with those numbers. Masterful coaching and of course brilliant defense, 90 digs! I'm not certain, but that might be the tightest 5 set final in history.
Nice to see more new Champs for vball. Maybe someday, others will recognize that this and not womens basketball, is the sport espn should be pimping. Congratulations to Wisconsin and Sheffield, a Shondell disciple. That's two Munciana alum in a row.
For some reason, a media guide I read back in college made it seem like UW Volleyball burst onto the scene with the 2000 title match run. And I'd never bothered to check back on that until last night. ... and there I see the Neb connection and had an "ooohhhhhh" moment.
Also, frickin' Munciana
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yes, great match - blocks won out over digs
pleasantly surprised that the Husker ladies really belonged - definitely one of the top 4 teams at the end of the season
Corngrats to the Badger ladies and especially Rettke
the 5th year senior was the best player on the court and probably the difference
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Russ Rose retiring
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/32929902/penn-state-women-volleyball-coach-russ-rose-retires-43-seasons
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BREAKING: Nebraska middle blocker Callie Schwarzenbach has entered the transfer portal. She will have one season of eligibility left.
She averaged 1.2 kill and 1.2 blocks this season, playing in 17 matches, most of those coming early in the year while Stivrins was injured.
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Didn't know it creeped in to the other program sports - this could ruin water polo and fencing
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The portal is massively disruptive in olympic sports.
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WAY-too-early Power 10 rankings ... I mean way early in every way possible. These could change daily, but let's have some fun in the moment.
1. Nebraska
At No. 1, I have the 2021 national champion runner-up. After a phenomenal season turnaround and the addition of three freshmen in the starting rotation, this team made it to the title game and pushed a great Wisconsin team to five sets. Those freshman out there are names we will hear for years to come. The Huskers do lose Lauren Stivrins and Lexi Sun, who played their last seasons as Huskers. Stivrins was the only one to play in the championship match. There are two players we are uncertain about ... Kayla Caffey and Nicklin Hames. These two played in their senior seasons this year, and would have to make the decision to return for their fifth season. But even without knowing about Caffey and Hames, this is a young core. Madi Kubik, their leading scorer, Lindsay Krause, Ally Batenhorst and the AVCA National Freshman of the Year, Lexi Rodriguez, will return. Plus, considering they brought in one of the top recruiting classes for this year, I am making an educated assumption that they will for 2022 as well. So there is very early No. 1 team in the nation.
2. Louisville
At No. 2, I've got the Louisville Cardinals — the No. 1 seed in the 2021 tournament and the team that went undefeated all the way up to a five-set loss in the semifinals to the eventual national champions. Even Nebraska's head coach John Cook said this Louisville team was the toughest opponent they had faced all season. The Cards will lose Anna Stevenson and Tori Dilfer, their two first team All-Americans, which is a very big loss indeed. But, they do return almost everyone else including Amaya Tillman, Aiko Jones, Anna DeBeer and Elena Scott. Claire Chaussee is questionable. But either way, when you look at the talent returning as of now, and with Dani Busboom Kelly as head coach, they are still looking pretty good.
3. Texas
Texas was a team many expected to make it back to the national title game. Their season was cut short with a loss to Nebraska in the regional finals. But again, they were expected to bring back almost all of their core aside from Brionne Butler and Sydney Petersen. Even if they lose a player to the transfer portal, they are returning one of the best players in the nation in Logan Eggleston. They will also return Asjia O'Neal for sure, Jhenna Gabriel, Melanie Parra, Molly Phillips and Naloni Iosia. They also officially announced that UCLA's two-time Pac-12 Libero of the Year Zoe Fleck will be joining their squad.
4. Wisconsin
At No. 4 I have the reigning national champs, Wisconsin. The Badgers just took home their first title after three years in the national semifinals and second time in three years in the championship game. As we all know, this team is going to lose a lot. And when I say a lot, I mean the AVCA National Player of the Year and five-time first team All American, Dana Rettke, first team All American setter Sydney Hilley, Grace Loberg and Lauren Barnes. These players led this team to a national championship, and this team will have some huge shoes to fill. So why are they not even lower than four? Well, if you watched the championship game, there are a few other names you are missing. Anna Smrek won the tournament MVP as a freshman. She stepped in this season after Danielle Hart was hurt and led this team to a title. Jade Demps was the second leading scorer in the title game, and she returns, Devyn Robinson, another one of their star hitters returns, and Julia Orzol, the freshman from Poland that made a big difference this year. So those are a lot of young players returning that have some serious experience. On top of that, IF Danielle Hart returns for another season, you have two great middle blockers yet again, and I assume a strong incoming class.
5. Ohio State
Behold the Ohio State Buckeyes making a huge jump in my way-too-early Power 10 rankings for next season. And by big jump, I mean from where they finished the 2021 season. The Buckeyes were knocked off by Georgia Tech in the tournament, and finished right outside of the top 10 at No. 11. However, despite one questionable return for Mia Grunze, this team returns the whole lot. Emily Londot, Rylee Rader, Gabby Gonzales, Kylie Murr and Mac Podraza. So they are my early No. 5 team.
6. Minnesota
Jenna Wenaas
At No. 6 I have the Minnesota Gophers. And the sad day has come ... Stephanie Samedy played in her last match as a Gopher. Quite the immaculate career from Samedy, and one of the best to do it. The Gophers will lose Samedy and Airi Miyabe next season. CC McGraw is currently listed on the spring 2021 roster, but it is unclear if she will for certain return for the 2022 regular season. But, they come in at No. 6 with the return of Jenna Wenaas, Taylor Landfair, Melanie Shaffmaster and Ellie Husemann.
7. Georgia Tech
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets come in at No. 6. They will suffer a pretty big loss of Mariana Brambilla, who put up some huge performances in the NCAA tournament. However, they will return Julia Bergmann, their All-American outside hitter. Bianca Bertolino averaged 2.55 kills per set this season behind both Brambilla and Bergmann in just her freshman season, and I expect her to play an even bigger role next year.
8. Purdue
The Boilermakers had quite the 2021 season. They even beat the national champion Wisconsin Badgers twice in the regular season. They drop to No. 7 with the loss of Grace Cleveland, who announced she would not be returning for another season on her personal instagram, Caitlyn Newton, their leading scorer, Hayley Bush, their setter, and Jenna Otec, the star libero. The Boilermakers will bring back Emma Ellis, Taylor Trammell and Raven Colvin, which is why they remain in the top 10.
9. Pittsburgh
The Panthers finished the 2021 season at No. 4 after making history and advancing to the national semifinals. But I had to drop them pretty far to No. 9 with how much they will be losing next year. Pitt will lose Kayla Lund. Chinaza Ndee , Kylee Levers and their biggest contributor, Leketor Member-Meneh. They could also lose Serena Gray, Sabrina Starks, and Jordan Lockwood. That is almost their entire lineup and all of their scoring. They do return freshman Rachel Fairbanks who stepped up big in the tournament, Chiamaka Nwokolo and Valeria Vazquez Gomez.
10. Washington
The Huskies had the potential to take down Texas in the tournament when they went up two sets to none before the Longhorns sparked a huge comeback. They finished at No. 12 in the final AVCA poll. They will for sure lose Samantha Drechsel next season, which is a pretty big chunk of their offense. Claire Hoffman, their leading scorer, has already played four years with the Huskies, but does have the option to return for a fifth. If she were to return, she would join Ella May Powell and Madi Endsley next season making this my No. 10 team. If not, I might replace this spot with Kentucky, who will bring back Madi Skinner, Azhani Tealer and Emma Grome, but lose Alli Stumler.
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Yeah, Kentucky won the 2020 title played this past spring but the 2021 season starts this week as well.
Texas our preseason #1. Usual suspects in the T10. Can WI stop being a bridesmaid? Is Ohio State for real. Hey, Rutgers has a pulse. Where will Nebraska play all these new blue chips. Is Russ Rose out of gas? Is Kathy George going to hang around much longer? Purdue FF caliber? BTN? BTN with some good coverage which I'm sure will drop off once hoops starts.
Covid has left us with a quirky situation of crowded rosters and some seniors that have decided to come back thanks to the NCAA allowing another year of eligibility.
Prophetic, ain't it.
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About time. The fade has been quick
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About time. The fade has been quick
Hired Illinois State coach Leah Johnson to replace her
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Vball intelligentsia like her.
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Vandy will be adding womens volleyball in 2023. Oklahoma State will then be the remaining P5 without it.
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The B1G is launching a new media days opportunity alongside the Big Ten Network in a first-of-its-kind move.
On Friday, it was announced that the B1G will host its first-ever Volleyball Media Days. The event is set for Aug. 1-2 at the BTN studios in Chicago.
According to BTN’s Emily Ehman and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), this is the first Volleyball Media Days across all NCAA conferences. All 14 B1G head coaches will attend the event, along with 1-2 players from each program.
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Fearless is making the trek to Chi-town, for the christening of the event.
Just look for the guy that's all like
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MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin volleyball team could play in front of a record-breaking crowd when it hosts Florida early in the 2022 regular season.
The program announced its plans Monday to play the Sept. 19 match against the Gators at the Kohl Center, which can hold up to 17,287 for Badgers men's basketball games. According to a message Bucky's 5th Quarter posted on Twitter, it will be the first volleyball match at the venue in nearly 25 years. The Badgers would break the NCAA regular-season, single-match attendance record with a sellout. UW hasn't released details about tickets.
Creighton and Nebraska set the regular-season attendance record in 2018 when 14,022 fans took in the match at CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Badgers have been part of a record-breaking crowd before. This past December, when UW defeated Nebraska to win the 2021 National Championship, 18,755 fans watched from Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, setting an NCAA volleyball championship game record. Additionally, the television audience of 1,188,000 made it the most-watched collegiate volleyball match in ESPN history.
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I'm heading to the AAU National Tournament next week, would bank on seeing lots of drooling coaches. Can't say I've ever been to FL between April and mid Oct.
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take some deodorant
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We car pool kids to v ball practice and one of the Mom's (great lady, a little fussy) sends an email around asking the girls to start wearing better deodorant. :57: No doubt, hauling 3-4 teenage girls around after a sweaty practice makes for a ripe car ride.
like all other sports, these seasons last about two months too long. Might as well end it in a giant convention center with 200+ courts. This is why noise canceling headphones were invented.
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Another year of high school recruiting for the Nebraska volleyball program has started off with a bang with a commitment from the No. 1-ranked recruit in the nation according to one web site.
Skyler Pierce, a 6-foot-2 outside hitter from Lenexa, Kansas, announced her commitment to the Huskers on Sunday.
She committed just four days after college coaches were allowed to start making recruiting phone calls to the 2024 recruiting class.
Pierce attends Olathe Northwest, where she’ll be a junior this fall and also plays basketball.
She’s ranked No. 1 in the nation by the website Prep Dig. In the Prepvolleyball.com rankings Pierce is ranked ninth.
Her club program, Dynasty, has several top-30 recruits in the 2024 class, and won a national championship last summer. Later this summer Pierce has been selected to a tryout camp with the United States junior national team.
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Will need a new thread. Big 10 w vball media days today and Tuesday. I remember the old two hour conference call for the Big XII. It was like 8 minutes a team, then the rest of the time was all Nebraska and Texas.
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could maybe just edit the name of this thread
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It didn’t take long for Kayla Caffey to find a new landing spot just one week after announcing she would leave Nebraska.
Caffey announced on Instagram that she will play her seventh and final season of college eligibility at Texas, joining former Husker teammate Keonilei Akana, who transferred to the Longhorns in the spring.
“I am moving to TEXAS! So excited to be joining the @texasvolleyball family for my last and final season! The amount of love and support that I have received from the volleyball community throughout this journey has been overwhelming and heartfelt. I cannot wait for this new journey! Let’s get to work! Hook ‘Em Horns!” Caffey wrote announcing her decision.
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CV has made for some really odd situations. Ncaa erred IMO w the extra year. Some roster and Scholly bloat.
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I'll just park this here...
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but why???
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The Nebraska volleyball team was ranked No. 1 in the preseason AVCA Coaches Poll released on Monday.
The Huskers collected 1,538 points in the poll and came in ahead of No. 2 Texas (1,528), No. 3 Wisconsin (1,439), No. 4 Louisville (1,317) and No. 5 Minnesota (1,251). Nebraska got 24 first-place votes, while Texas had the most at 27. Wisconsin received 12 and Louisville had one.
It marks Nebraska's 101st week all-time at No. 1 in the AVCA Coaches Poll, the most of any program in the nation. The last time the Huskers were ranked No. 1 to start a season was prior to the 2016 season. Nebraska was last ranked No. 1 in the AVCA Poll on Sept. 16, 2019.
Nebraska has now been ranked in all 572 AVCA Polls all-time and has been ranked in the top 10 a total of 516 times. Both those marks lead the nation. It marks the eighth straight year that Nebraska has been a preseason top-five pick.
The Huskers went 26-8 last season and made it to the NCAA Championship match, where they fell 3-2 to Wisconsin. NU ended the year at No. 2 in the poll and returns five starters, including 2021 AVCA All-Americans Madi Kubik and Lexi Rodriguez. Transfer middle blocker Kaitlyn Hord also joined the fold after three AVCA All-America accolades in four years at Penn State.
NU opens the 2022 season this Saturday with the Red-White Scrimmage at 6 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Fan Day is set for 10 a.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
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The College Volleyball preseason poll is out. Let the games begin.
Defending national champ Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield has fired off the first salvo. Sheffield wants to be No. 1.
And he’s aiming at Creighton, Nebraska and Omaha.
Wisconsin, ranked No. 3 in the pre-season, hosts No. 15 Florida on Sept. 16. Sheffield has moved the game to the Kohl Center (17,230) for one specific purpose.
He wants to break the NCAA regular-season attendance record (14,022) set by CU and NU at the CHI Health Center in 2018.
“We’re trying to drive the sport forward,” Sheffield said recently. “I think we’re all looking forward to (Florida match) and, man, we really want to break that record.
https://huskerextra.com/news/volleyball/shatel-let-the-nebraska-vs-wisconsin-ultimate-volleyball-fan-showdown-begin/article_7f6bacd5-9ae8-5c12-9e0d-a298c755bf07.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_HuskerExtra&fbclid=IwAR1KChh2iuvXynDu12nJW_t9XImeUuNyrXeDi1EVLu9Nygz0H-k3ViVN_aM (https://huskerextra.com/news/volleyball/shatel-let-the-nebraska-vs-wisconsin-ultimate-volleyball-fan-showdown-begin/article_7f6bacd5-9ae8-5c12-9e0d-a298c755bf07.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_HuskerExtra&fbclid=IwAR1KChh2iuvXynDu12nJW_t9XImeUuNyrXeDi1EVLu9Nygz0H-k3ViVN_aM)
Creighton coach Kirsten Bernthal-Booth said Monday she and Sheffield have had conversations about making it a public challenge between the two states.
Meanwhile, Booth and NU coach John Cook have spoken about pushing to sell out the match between the No. 1-ranked Huskers and No. 18 Jays on Sept. 7 at the CHI Health Center.
The games have already begun.
“We’re going after our fan base and the Nebraska fan base,” Booth said. We’re trying to get some groups, some high school teams in, group rates.
“We’d love to have some things go on between the state of Nebraska and the state of Wisconsin. We currently have the record. I hope it gets broken and I hope Nebraska is the state that retains it. It’s good for volleyball.”
Speaking after his team’s practice on Monday, Cook brought up Sheffield’s desire to own the record. And Cook was fired up.
“We need to sell out our (Sept. 7) match because
Wisconsin is going after the record,” Cook said. “We want that record to stay here.”
Cook wants it so bad he said he would be willing to move next year’s Creighton match to Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln. Previously, he’s been against moving a home match there.
This year’s NU-CU match was supposed to take place in Lincoln but Cook requested the move to Omaha because the 2022 NCAA Volleyball finals are at CHI Health Center in December.
He said the next two Jays-Huskers matches will be in Lincoln. At least one of those could be played in downtown Lincoln.
This could get serious. And fun.