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in our 2023 run to the national championship, we had a server who, I believe, hit the knuckleball that was very difficult to pick up and return, resulting in a lot of aces....it was, for me, unreal to watch....we ended up going thru all the top seeds to win it all.  Don't remember her name., but it would be great to get her back for some serving sessions....she was really good.

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3 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

in our 2023 run to the national championship, we had a server who, I believe, hit the knuckleball that was very difficult to pick up and return, resulting in a lot of aces....it was, for me, unreal to watch....we ended up going thru all the top seeds to win it all.  Don't remember her name., but it would be great to get her back for some serving sessions....she was really good.

In our opening rounds of the NCAAT, we had 3 aces against aggy and 7 against SMU.  Emma went crazy with 4 against SMU

2 more against Tennessee and 5 against Stanford.  Madi and Asjia had 2 each against Stanford.

Then the real fun started - 11 against Wisconsin, including 6 by Madi, and 12 against Nebraska, with 5 from Asjia

And then the meme was born

Texas wins the 2023 DI women's volleyball national championship | NCAA.com

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1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

So basically a knuckleball serve. That’s how I would always serve when I played volleyball, but I didn’t pay attention to where the valve was. A knuckleball serve seems to have the best accuracy to receiving difficulty ratio of any serve and I wish we utilized it more 

Yeah. Watching good float serves from the general perspective of the receiver is crazy. The ball shifts around in the air in an unpredictable way. 

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5 hours ago, Js1 said:

Part of me thinks they were trying to be more aggressive against an overmatched opponent.   We had 17 service errors against Bama, with 6 of them in the first set and then 11 over the next 3 sets.  We dialed it back a little to a more manageable 3.6 per set (still not great). We had 12 in a 5 setter against Tennessee (2.4 per set)

It's not like we forgot how to serve - we had 3 against Creighton (1 per set), 4 against Wisconsin (1.33 per set), 8 against Stanford (1.6 per set), 4 against Louisville (0.8 per set), 2 against ASU (.67 per set), 7 against TCU (2.33 per set), 6 against Baylor (2 per set).

Texas averages 1.94 serving errors per set, and our last 2 matches inflated that quite a bit (12 and 17).  Only 2 matches we have hit double digit serving errors - the last 2. 

Team service errors is not an NCAA stat, but just browsing some of the top 10: 

Nebraska - 2.01 (109 in 54 sets)
Texas - 1.94 (97 in 50 sets)
Louisville - 1.96 (114 in 58 sets)
Pitt - 2.55 (156 in 61 sets)
Kentucky - 2.5 (130 in 52 sets)
Stanford - 3.32  (196 in 59 sets)
Wisconsin - 2.88 (130 in 45 sets)
ASU - 2.71 (148 in 55 sets)

That makes sense, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a similar serving effort against Ark., hopefully with a little better results and progress being made.

As far as forgetting how to serve, I don't think that's issue for this team.  I was mainly responding to SL's point about the importance of having a very strong serve to beat the elite teams.  Which I agree with, but there's a fine line of pushing the limits without causing too many service errors. Which can be a real momentum killer.  That's the tricky part. We'll see how far this team can push it.

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