2023 Texas Volleyball - Back to Back!

[Js1 85636]

Things will change but RPI futures has the top 4 as Nebraska, Wisconsin, Louisville, Oregon. I wouldn’t want to be sent to any of them, but we will travel if we get past round 2. I’d probably pick Eugene because I want nothing to do with Nebraska, Louisville or Wisconsin right now. 

[idigTexas 2293]

We have plenty of matches to figure out how good we can be.  Luckily we don't have to deal with Nebraska, Louisville, or Wisconsin today.  

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

aggy followed up an upset of #4 Florida on the road with a loss at home to a mediocre Missouri team. 

 

[Js1 85636]

Morrison and aggy follow that big road win over top 5 Florida with a 3-1 clunker against Mizzou

WSU knocked off Oregon. They are legit. Wins over BYU, Texas, Oregon, Baylor

NC State knocks off Louisville in 4

Edited October 1, 2023 by Js1

[Js1 85636]

First RPI is out

Texas is the highest ranked Big 12 team at #9

1 Wisconsin
2 Nebraska
3 Stanford
4 Oregon
5 Washington St.
6 Florida
7 Lousivlle
8 Penn St.
9 Texas
10 Georgia Tech

16 BYU
26 Baylor
28 Kansas
30 UCF
31 Long Beach St.
32 Iowa State
34 TCU
37 Rice
55 Houston
89 Texas Tech
95 KSU
109 OU
124 Cincinnati
187 West Virginia

We have 2 matches against Baylor, 2 against KU, 1 against UCF, 1 against ISU, 1 against TCU.  7 more top 50 matches and UH is on the cusp of top 50 (2 with them).  Luckily, we only have Tech once, KSU once  One against Cincinnati and 2 against WV is going to hurt our RPI a little bit, they are abysmal.   

Edited October 2, 2023 by Js1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

It sucks but that first match is likely going to be our RPI killer without O'Neal. 

Losses to #3 and #5 in RPI wouldn't hurt us that much. 

 

[Js1 85636]

Just now, Rickylovesweed said:

It sucks but that first match is likely going to be our RPI killer without O'Neal. 

Losses to #3 and #5 in RPI wouldn't hurt us that much. 

 

#31 RPI and the first match of the season isn't a resume killer.  The committee usually takes into account injuries. 

We can offset that by sweeping the rest of our top 55 matches.  12-3 against the top 55 would be fine. 

We are not getting a top 4 seed.  But if we can work ourselves into the 5-7 range, that would be fine.  Avoid the #8 overall and being sent to #1 overall. 

[Js1 85636]

First career conference weekly award for Bella Bergmark - Defensive Player of the Week

Bergmark helped lead the Longhorns to back-to-back wins over then-No. 9 BYU with six total blocks in each match. The strategic communication major ranked second among Big 12 players with 1.50 blocks per set for the week while helping to extend UT’s home Big 12 winning streak to 69 straight matches.

Parra was Offensive Player of the Week - had a 34 kill match against TT and is the only TCU player in program history with multiple 34 kill matches. Only Big 12 player this year with multiple 30 kill matches. 

[Js1 85636]

Texas lands 2025 stud OH Macaria Spears from Plano

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

 

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[Js1 85636]

Whoever gets Taylor Harvey the MB is going to have the best class. She was at the KU game this weekend 

[closetojumping 62898]

18 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

 

That's pretty cool. It's always fun to see famous athletes sending their kids to Texas versus their alma mater.

[Js1 85636]

10-4 Texas early against #17 KU. Nice 7-1 run here 

[Js1 85636]

19-14 Texas 

[Js1 85636]

22-15 Texas 

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Swindle is looking much better. 

[Js1 85636]

25-17 Texas. 1-0

[Js1 85636]

Wenaas just zaps all momentum. Jesus 

8-3 KU. All keyed by Wenaas sucking 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Js1

[Js1 85636]

Wow they just…. Completely missed that net call in review. It was so obvious 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Js1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

It was a soft touch in the net but clearly a net violation. How do you miss that on a review that Elliott clearly saw? 

[Js1 85636]

KU is handling our serve really well

[Js1 85636]

Wenaas is just giving KU a free ball basically every time she’s set 

Devin now in but this set is a burn the tape at 19-11 KU

Edited October 6, 2023 by Js1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Weenas benched again. 

[Js1 85636]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Weenas benched again. 

We have an OH2 problem. 

[Js1 85636]

22-13 KU. No idea why Elliot bothered to call a TO. Just get to set 3. This is ugly. 

[Js1 85636]

25-16 KU. 1-1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We have an OH2 problem. 

Yeah, that seems to be the major issue with this team. We don't have anybody that's terminal at OH other than Skinner. 

Wenaas has moments but she also has moments like tonight where she just completely gives away sets. 

[Js1 85636]

9-7 Texas 

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Wenaas might have been permanently benched for Kahahawai. 

Normally she comes back in after a short benching due to struggles.  

[Js1 85636]

13-8 Texas. Much better 

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Yeah, the Wenaas days might be over. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Rickylovesweed

[Js1 85636]

Just now, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah, the Wennas days might be over. 

Yup!

[Js1 85636]

25-18 Texas. 2-1

This has been a a defensive coming out match for Barnes. That’s the Barnes I was expecting 

[Js1 85636]

Either we face elite setters every match or we just fucking suck at reading the setter dump. 

[Js1 85636]

11-8 Texas

[Js1 85636]

18-15 Texas

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Not enough to overturn but after the missed net violation who knows. 

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Fuck these refs. No way you can overturn that. 

That's 2 just WTF calls from review from these refs. 

[Js1 85636]

Just now, Rickylovesweed said:

Fuck these refs. No way you can overturn that. 

That's 2 just WTF calls from review from these refs. 

We got the Kevin Mar of volleyball officials tonight 

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

It would be nice to have that point that the refs just randomly gave to Kansas. 

[Js1 85636]

22-21

Woof at Halter getting aced on consecutive serves 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Js1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

I will be very surprised if Wenaas is starting the next match.

Looks like that's all Kahahawai now. 

[Js1 85636]

Texas wins 3-1

See you tomorrow for the repeat (which is still stupid af, but you do you, Big 12) on LHN at 7

[gsoda3 3284]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

We have an OH2 problem. 

how has melanie been doing, do you know?  i wish she was still here with her whip of an arm.  i bet she doesn't need a perfect set every time to do something with the ball.

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

They need to stick with Kahahawi. 

Our block is already really good and if you add her to the mix the block becomes a major problem for other teams. Wenaas is not giving us enough offensively to justify playing time. Stick with the player that adds to the block and can take a smart approach offensively like she did tonight. 

 

[Js1 85636]

4 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

how has melanie been doing, do you know?  i wish she was still here with her whip of an arm.  i bet she doesn't need a perfect set every time to do something with the ball.

Don’t look, bc she’s crushing it at TCU. She’s had two 30+ kill matches 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Js1

[Rickylovesweed 14542]

Para should have stuck it out with Texas but I can't blame her for transferring after the last 2 years. It's not like Texas had much of a choice either. 

They were just loaded and playing time was difficult to find. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Rickylovesweed

[gsoda3 3284]

Just now, Js1 said:

Don’t look, bc she’s crushing it at TCU. She’s had two 30+ kill matches 

good for her, i loved watching her play. 

[Js1 85636]

KSU tried to blow a 2-0 lead over Baylor but won 3-2 in Waco

Bears now 1-3 in the Big 12