Volleyball

[CatMom]

We'll get stuck in a regional with Texas, et all...we always do. Last time (2007) we got A&M the first round (or maybe it was Baylor), regardless, we'll have all BCS type teams to face early and likely be out before we really get strated.

[JayJ79]

We'll get stuck in a regional with Texas, et all...we always do. Last time (2007) we got A&M the first round (or maybe it was Baylor), regardless, we'll have all BCS type teams to face early and likely be out before we really get strated.

Looks like you were right. My condolances.
Though it would be awesome to see y'all pull off the upset.

[JayJ79]

UNI will play Washington State in Lincoln, Nebraska.
And if they win that one, they will take on the winner of Nebraska/Coastal Carolina.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the Huskers win that one, but I'll certainly be rooting for the Chanticleers. And hey, I guess this means I'll get to watch the "volleyball stretch" that Bodoyle was all excited about.


I don't really know anything about Washington State's volleyball team.
Coming from the Pac 10, I'm going to assume they have a decent team, but if the Panthers play at their normal level of volleyball, I'm confident they can come away with the win.

[CatMom]

We'll get stuck in a regional with Texas, et all...we always do. Last time (2007) we got A&M the first round (or maybe it was Baylor), regardless, we'll have all BCS type teams to face early and likely be out before we really get strated.

Looks like you were right. My condolances.
Though it would be awesome to see y'all pull off the upset.

Thanks Jay,

Yeah, I kind of expected this, as we both have stated. It sucks big time. We're on a 13 game win streak and the gals are playing in top form but I doubt we'll hang around at UT after this game is over. How this is a sub-regional with TCU and Rice in it is beyond me. Travel expenses be damned, Baylor is closer than TCU or Rice, to Austin, and they're in the Gainesville Regional bracket? I would think we would do better against Rice but we'd still have UT to get past. We lost to Baylor early in the season but this team turned a corner after that.

Oh well, be happy we got there, I suppose. Good luck to UNI. Your in the same regional as us.

[CitadelGrad]

This is perhaps the worst job the selection cmte. has ever done. Miami and Clemson from the ACC have no business being in the tournament. The top three teams from the Big 12 are in the same regional which also happens to be hosted by one of those three teams (Nebraska). The list goes on and on, but the cmte. should receive the death sentence for this atrocity.

[CatMom]

Down and out

25-16
25-14
25-14

Seems the gals had a lot of mistakes and miscues and hit percentage was a paltry .044. How disappointing for them but, they had a good season.

[jjj3rd]

Northern Colorado had a good showing against 6 seed Washington after winning the Big Sky tourney. The Bears took game 1 27-25, then lost the next three 25-15, 25-22, and 25-21. UNC hit .237 and had 57 kills. We lose 4 seniors this year, but got three good players to sign letters of intent. Next season should be good.

[CatMom]

Congrats on UNI winning in the first round. Hey, keep it up. Maybe they can knock off UT.

[slycat]

Down and out

25-16
25-14
25-14

Seems the gals had a lot of mistakes and miscues and hit percentage was a paltry .044. How disappointing for them but, they had a good season.

Different year same story. Freakin sucks.

Good news is I hear we picked up one of the top girls out of the Houston area. She was getting offers from all the top schools but picked Texas St

[DJH]

UNI wins 3-0, and will now face Nebraska.

[CitadelGrad]

Northern Colorado had a good showing against 6 seed Washington after winning the Big Sky tourney. The Bears took game 1 27-25, then lost the next three 25-15, 25-22, and 25-21. UNC hit .237 and had 57 kills. We lose 4 seniors this year, but got three good players to sign letters of intent. Next season should be good.

Well, no. You must have been following the match on GameTracker. GameTracker sometimes reverses the scores (persistent technical malfunction of some sort) and that is what happened in this match. Colorado St. actually beat Washington by the scores you cited above.

[D1B]

UNI wins 3-0, and will now face Nebraska.

Ouch. Would be awesome if they can beat em.

[DJH]

UNI lost today to Neb, 0-3. Thought this would be the year to knock them off

UNI finishes 32-3 on the year, I believe.

[JayJ79]

Northern Colorado had a good showing against 6 seed Washington after winning the Big Sky tourney. The Bears took game 1 27-25, then lost the next three 25-15, 25-22, and 25-21. UNC hit .237 and had 57 kills. We lose 4 seniors this year, but got three good players to sign letters of intent. Next season should be good.

Well, no. You must have been following the match on GameTracker. GameTracker sometimes reverses the scores (persistent technical malfunction of some sort) and that is what happened in this match. Colorado St. actually beat Washington by the scores you cited above.

Gametracker does error sometimes, but those are accurate scores in the UNC/Washington match from Thursday night.
On Friday night, CSU beat Washington 25-16, 25-22, 21-25, 25-19

[JayJ79]

UNI lost today to Neb, 0-3. Thought this would be the year to knock them off

UNI finishes 32-3 on the year, I believe.

31-3 actually.
Interestingly, the three teams that UNI lost to (Texas A&M, Iowa State, Nebraska) are all in the "sweet 16" of the NCAA tournament.
(and all three are playing in the Omaha regional, along with Texas. which makes it an all-Big 12 regional)

[jjj3rd]

Northern Colorado had a good showing against 6 seed Washington after winning the Big Sky tourney. The Bears took game 1 27-25, then lost the next three 25-15, 25-22, and 25-21. UNC hit .237 and had 57 kills. We lose 4 seniors this year, but got three good players to sign letters of intent. Next season should be good.

Well, no. You must have been following the match on GameTracker. GameTracker sometimes reverses the scores (persistent technical malfunction of some sort) and that is what happened in this match. Colorado St. actually beat Washington by the scores you cited above.

No Gametracker, I was actually at this game, and the scores are correct, I just didn't put them in the "correct" context for a loss, i.e., 15-25, 22-25, 21-25.....my point was not necessarily about the scores as much as it was about the good showing UNC had against a highly ranked Washington team. Since this was UNC's first ever Big Sky championship, and first time in the big show.

[JayJ79]

watching some of the semifinals on TV (well, flipping between that, the Jags/Colts game and The Mentalist).

Looks like the turkeys are done for one of the PSU players. (or a more symbollic )
She must have been chilly, or excited.

In other news, Texas will take on Penn State in the finals.