NCAA womens volleyball playoffs

[TheFarmFan]

Jaela Auguste, the freshman middle for Florida, is a player I watched in high school and am very impressed by. I believe she won SEC FOY this year? Between her and Stuckey and Martin, I find Florida easy to root for.

 

[bballnut90]

I am and have been for many years, a Penn State fan.

I’m thrilled to see them back as a title contender after this past decade of declining play. Their coach was considered to be an underwhelming hire to take over for Russ and she’s done an outstanding job. Going way back, they had many brilliant teams in the 90s and their teams in the late 00s are the best of all time and played in some of the best matches of all time.

 

[donalddoowop]

I’m thrilled to see them back as a title contender after this past decade of declining play. Their coach was considered to be an underwhelming hire to take over for Russ and she’s done an outstanding job. Going way back, they had many brilliant teams in the 90s and their teams in the late 00s are the best of all time and played in some of the best matches of all time.

It was the late 00s when I started liking them. They reminded me of the volleyball version of UConn WBB.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Starting up again tonight, Regional Semis. Pitt beat Oregon, Kentucky beat Missouri. Stanford up 2-1 against Florida.

I watched a few minutes of that current match. The commentators said something along the line of Coach Hambly doesn't care how many service errors his team has (they have WAY more than their opponents this year). He claims he's never seen a metric that convinces him service errors hurt. He'd much rather have his team trying to serve tough.

He may be right. Service errors drive me nuts when I'm watching, but I realize you can't serve lollipops so you are going to have some errors. I thought it was interesting.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Stanford wins 3-1. All chalk so far today.

 

[nwhoopfan]

No 3 Peat for Texas. Creighton beat them 3-1. Jays were higher seeded (#2 vs. #3), but still kind of a surprise?

Regional Finals are:

Pitt vs. Kentucky
Louisville vs. Stanford
Penn St. vs. Creighton

2 more matches tonight to determine the other match up. Although if it's not Nebraska vs. Wisconsin it will be shocking, not giving Dayton or Texas A&M much of a chance.


So it's looking like some of the old powerhouses, and a few new powerhouses, and one interloper.

 

[nwhoopfan]

So...Big 10 solidarity is NOT a thing apparently. Fans in Lincoln are firmly behind Texas A&M, not Wisconsin. Very tight match, it's in the 5th set about halfway thru and Badgers lead by 2. Aggies have been giving Bucky all they want and then some.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Whoa! Wisconsin ran out to an 11-6 lead, now only up 13-12. This is a good match.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Badgers escape 15-13. Logan Lednicky had a heck of a match for A&M.