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3 Wisky - Eastern Illinois

6 UTEP - UNC

 

7 SDSU - Arizona 

2 Stanford - Utah Valley

SO PREDICTABLE - Stanford and Texas potential regional final 

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5 minutes ago, WBT said:

Stanford, Wisky, and Indiana as seeds in our region

Texas, Stanford, PSU, Wisky. Champions in 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24

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I’m just annoyed out of all the 2 seeds, the one we didn’t play in the regular season wasn’t ours.

I would have liked to have played SMU

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TXST was one of the first four out, or else Texas would have 9 teams in 

Texas, aggy, SMU, Baylor, UTEP, Rice, TCU, SFA

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16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I would have liked to have played SMU

Boy, me too.

I have nothing against Carlson. By all accounts she's a standup person who was put in a bad situation last year through no fault of her own. But all the Swindle hate with all the Carlson love has driven me batty on Volleytalk.

I wanted to see Texas abuse Carlson in the front row rotation until the Mustangs screamed calf rope. 

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I do not see a team that's going to stop them, but if there is one, they're probably facing them in the regional finals in Louisville. Those pins for Louisville are just so dang short. 

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I've never studied the NCAA's process for building a VB bracket. Do they seed teams all the way from top to bottom, then split them out as best possible? Is regionality part of it?  TV ratings? Committee biases/grudges? Enlighten me. 

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2 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

I've never studied the NCAA's process for building a VB bracket. Do they seed teams all the way from top to bottom, then split them out as best possible? Is regionality part of it?  TV ratings? Committee biases/grudges? Enlighten me. 

Like all NCAA committees, they are inconsistent. For instance, Penn St is driving distance to Pitt, but got sent to Austin. I wish they’d focus more on avoiding rematches from the regular season. Like we get it, Texas and Stanford meet in the regionals so much 

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2 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

I've never studied the NCAA's process for building a VB bracket. Do they seed teams all the way from top to bottom, then split them out as best possible? Is regionality part of it?  TV ratings? Committee biases/grudges? Enlighten me. 

They seed 1-32.  33-64 aren’t seeded, but rather pooled geographically, and the 400-mile travel radius comes into play when selecting where they’ll go.  After that it becomes a filler with easiest travel.

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16 hours ago, Js1 said:

TXST was one of the first four out, or else Texas would have 9 teams in 

We were probably 1 or 2 solid backup players away from being in.  Both setters were injured going into the season - one rolled her ankle and wasn't cleared until day of the 1st match and the other broke her hand the day before (will need surgery in the off-season), so we didn't get her back until conference play.  Juggling the offense from a 5-1 w/ broken hand to 5-1 @ 60% on her ankle, to 6-2 when broken hand came back was a big adjustment.  We were also thin on the back line going into the season w/ only 1 true little, and she got a concussion which kept her out for 5 matches so we had to put our starting OH at L, and we weren't deep enough at OH to make it work...plus, she's our best overall player, 6 rotations, excellent back row for an OH, but not a true L.  Super frustrating, because the last month of the season with everyone healthy, that squad was BUZZING.  8-0 to close conference play and a 2-3 loss in the SBC tournament semis to Arkansas State, who swept JMU for the title, and we took both from JMU at their house the week before.

Our OOC was strong af too:

Stephen F Austin - won the Southland - Match 1 w/ our #2 setter at 60% on a busted ankle and hadn't practiced
UTEP - 25-4, CUSA regular season champs
Arizona State - won the B12 - lost in 5 w/ the 1st 2 sets going 25+ - we pull that out, we're in
Tulsa - won the American - they swept us, and I'm still not sure how they dominated us so thoroughly at home
UCLA - regional 8 seed
Stanford - regional 2 seed

We lose our top 5 scorers and our L, so it's a complete overhaul going into the PAC next year.  

Good luck to the Horns in the Tournament!  I was able to make the Stanford match at Moody this year, and that 5th set was just ELECTRIC!  Tough draw as y'all have noted, and I know expectations are always high for your team, but if you can make the Final 4 this year, that should be considered a MASSIVE win for this season given the youth movement.  

 

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Elliott catching a slight stray with this headline 😂 tbh I thought our teams always wore the ponytail holders because of a sponsorship, I didn’t realize he created them! 

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