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Post by bballnut90 on Jul 29, 2014 11:15:58 GMT -5
Here are the regional hosts: Dec. 12-13 Iowa State University Regional Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum Dec. 12-13 University of Louisville Regional Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Dec. 12-13 University of Washington Regional Seattle Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion Dec. 12-13 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Regional Minneapolis, MN Sports Pavilion
My picks are Penn State, Texas, USC and Washington. Penn State is young but immensely talented, Texas is loaded now with Baker/Paulina, USC has more pin firepower than anyone in the nation, and Washington returns ample talent and hosts the regional.
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Post by ay2013 on Jul 29, 2014 12:11:13 GMT -5
Here are the regional hosts: Dec. 12-13 Iowa State University Regional Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum Dec. 12-13 University of Louisville Regional Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Dec. 12-13 University of Washington Regional Seattle Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion Dec. 12-13 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Regional Minneapolis, MN Sports Pavilion My picks are Penn State, Texas, USC and Washington. Penn State is young but immensely talented, Texas is loaded now with Baker/Paulina, USC has more pin firepower than anyone in the nation, and Washington returns ample talent and hosts the regional. Obviously it will largely depend on the brackets. I do find it interesting that you call Texas "loaded now" (when were they not?) and proceed to name players who have essentially rode the bench thus far.
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Post by SportyBucky on Jul 29, 2014 12:13:02 GMT -5
Here are the regional hosts: Dec. 12-13 Iowa State University Regional Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum Dec. 12-13 University of Louisville Regional Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Dec. 12-13 University of Washington Regional Seattle Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion Dec. 12-13 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Regional Minneapolis, MN Sports Pavilion My picks are Penn State, Texas, USC and Washington. Penn State is young but immensely talented, Texas is loaded now with Baker/Paulina, USC has more pin firepower than anyone in the nation, and Washington returns ample talent and hosts the regional. Obviously it will largely depend on the brackets. I do find it interesting that you call Texas "loaded now" (when were they not?) and proceed to name players who have essentially rode the bench thus far. I have yet to see their libero or DS pass a ball to 7. Okay, slight exaggeration, but not by much.
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Post by bballnut90 on Jul 29, 2014 12:48:43 GMT -5
Here are the regional hosts: Dec. 12-13 Iowa State University Regional Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum Dec. 12-13 University of Louisville Regional Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center Dec. 12-13 University of Washington Regional Seattle Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion Dec. 12-13 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Regional Minneapolis, MN Sports Pavilion My picks are Penn State, Texas, USC and Washington. Penn State is young but immensely talented, Texas is loaded now with Baker/Paulina, USC has more pin firepower than anyone in the nation, and Washington returns ample talent and hosts the regional. Obviously it will largely depend on the brackets. I do find it interesting that you call Texas "loaded now" (when were they not?) and proceed to name players who have essentially rode the bench thus far. Texas was loaded before but I think bringing in Baker/Prieto will unload some of the pressure that was going to be placed on Eckerman's shoulders. And Baker redshirted, hence why she "rode the bench" and Prieto was playing behind Deja/Scott who have 7 All-American awards between the two of them. Texas was going to be great before, but adding in 2 former top 10 recruits on the pins makes them even more lethal.
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Post by bigfan on Jul 29, 2014 12:50:08 GMT -5
I would pick Southern Cal, Stanford and Washington ALL TO MAKE THE FF..............but the NCAA will end up putting them in the same bracket. Southern Call and Washington BOTH were FF caliber teams last season but met in the Elite Eight. That was highest level of volleyball I saw last season. Thing of the tremendous Federer/Djocvich final at Wimbledon. Both teams played their hearts out.
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Post by ay2013 on Jul 29, 2014 13:00:42 GMT -5
Obviously it will largely depend on the brackets. I do find it interesting that you call Texas "loaded now" (when were they not?) and proceed to name players who have essentially rode the bench thus far. Texas was loaded before but I think bringing in Baker/Prieto will unload some of the pressure that was going to be placed on Eckerman's shoulders. And Baker redshirted, hence why she "rode the bench" and Prieto was playing behind Deja/Scott who have 7 All-American awards between the two of them. Texas was going to be great before, but adding in 2 former top 10 recruits on the pins makes them even more lethal. Did Baker have to redshirt for transfer rules or was she injured? If not, then that's the same thing as riding the bench. As for Prieto, sure she was lower in the depth chart, but if she was impactful enough to be on the floor, Russ would have had her at OH2, or ran a 6-2. I'm not saying these aren't quality players, nor do I think that Texas won't reach the final four, I just think it's interesting that the justification you gave was essentially that the Baker and Prieto will be unleashed onto the world like an unstoppable fire.
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Post by ay2013 on Jul 29, 2014 13:03:51 GMT -5
I would pick Southern Cal, Stanford and Washington ALL TO MAKE THE FF..............but the NCAA will end up putting them in the same bracket. Southern Call and Washington BOTH were FF caliber teams last season but met in the Elite Eight. That was highest level of volleyball I saw last season. Thing of the tremendous Federer/Djocvich final at Wimbledon. Both teams played their hearts out. I agree. The seeding probably won't allow the top 3 Pac-12 teams to play in separate regionals. I really only see a scenario of the 3 top Pac teams spread out if two of the top 4 seeds are from the Pac-12, and one of those teams is Washington.
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Post by SportyBucky on Jul 29, 2014 13:17:22 GMT -5
I would pick Southern Cal, Stanford and Washington ALL TO MAKE THE FF..............but the NCAA will end up putting them in the same bracket. Southern Call and Washington BOTH were FF caliber teams last season but met in the Elite Eight. That was highest level of volleyball I saw last season. Thing of the tremendous Federer/Djocvich final at Wimbledon. Both teams played their hearts out. I agree. The seeding probably won't allow the top 3 Pac-12 teams to play in separate regionals. I really only see a scenario of the 3 top Pac teams spread out if two of the top 4 seeds are from the Pac-12, and one of those teams is Washington. Glad it was a high level match, but fact is WA got smashed in the FF. Not even remotely competitive. Maybe USC would have played better or matched up better, but it's really hard for me to say they deserved to be in the FF or receive a different region when they (1) lost; and (2) the team that beat them were destroyed.
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Post by akbar on Jul 29, 2014 13:19:51 GMT -5
Southern Call and Washington BOTH were FF caliber teams last season but met in the Elite Eight. That was highest level of volleyball I saw last season. Thing of the tremendous Federer/Djocvich final at Wimbledon. Both teams played their hearts out. Same could be said of the Stanford/PSU thriller. Regional Finals can offer some of the most exciting and high level execution. This has been covered before. No doubt matchups and draws will always come into play.
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Post by ay2013 on Jul 29, 2014 13:25:51 GMT -5
I agree. The seeding probably won't allow the top 3 Pac-12 teams to play in separate regionals. I really only see a scenario of the 3 top Pac teams spread out if two of the top 4 seeds are from the Pac-12, and one of those teams is Washington. Glad it was a high level match, but fact is WA got smashed in the FF. Not even remotely competitive. Maybe USC would have played better or matched up better, but it's really hard for me to say they deserved to be in the FF or receive a different region when they (1) lost; and (2) the team that beat them were destroyed. right because one match makes a season . I surely don't make any excuses for why Washington didn't show up (and certainly take nothing away from the epic performance by PSU) but pointing to that match and saying that the teams UW beat to get to that match weren't good enough to be in the final four is just stupid. The reality is that there were a few teams that were good enough to be in the final four and were victims of the draw. What happened in the final four has nothing to do with the quality of the teams that didn't make the final four. Is Nebraska any less of a team because they got swept at home by Texas, who then got served off the court by Wisconsin, who lost both matches to Nebraska this season? Also, USC couldn't have been in a different region, they hosted. Missouri should have been the top seed in the USC bracket, and Washington should have been the top seed in Illinois. There was no legitimate way around PSU and Stanford being placed in the same region other than Texas and PSU switching seeds...and while I do think that PSU's 1 loss Big 10 campaign is more deserving of the top seed than Texas, PSU as the top seed would have sent them to Nebraska, and it's completely unfair to pit the top two teams from the Big 10 or the Pac-12 in the same region.
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Post by Boof1224 on Jul 29, 2014 13:26:22 GMT -5
Obviously it will largely depend on the brackets. I do find it interesting that you call Texas "loaded now" (when were they not?) and proceed to name players who have essentially rode the bench thus far. Texas was loaded before but I think bringing in Baker/Prieto will unload some of the pressure that was going to be placed on Eckerman's shoulders. And Baker redshirted, hence why she "rode the bench" and Prieto was playing behind Deja/Scott who have 7 All-American awards between the two of them. Texas was going to be great before, but adding in 2 former top 10 recruits on the pins makes them even more lethal. Everyone is making prieto out to be a Allstar when she couldn't play well enough to keep a starting spot at psu. But if it makes Texas fans feel better so be it
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Post by Boof1224 on Jul 29, 2014 13:29:43 GMT -5
I would pick Southern Cal, Stanford and Washington ALL TO MAKE THE FF..............but the NCAA will end up putting them in the same bracket. Southern Call and Washington BOTH were FF caliber teams last season but met in the Elite Eight. That was highest level of volleyball I saw last season. Thing of the tremendous Federer/Djocvich final at Wimbledon. Both teams played their hearts out. The highest level match when. The highest lvl match in tourney was psu and Stanford
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Post by Boof1224 on Jul 29, 2014 13:32:21 GMT -5
In my opinion prieto was overrated comming out of club ball and she's being way overrated now. Maybe she proves me wrong. We will see
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Post by Longhorn20 on Jul 29, 2014 13:32:44 GMT -5
Texas was loaded before but I think bringing in Baker/Prieto will unload some of the pressure that was going to be placed on Eckerman's shoulders. And Baker redshirted, hence why she "rode the bench" and Prieto was playing behind Deja/Scott who have 7 All-American awards between the two of them. Texas was going to be great before, but adding in 2 former top 10 recruits on the pins makes them even more lethal. Everyone is making prieto out to be a Allstar when she couldn't play well enough to keep a starting spot at psu. But if it makes Texas fans feel better so be it She couldn't play well enough to keep a starting spot at PSU? Do you understand the difficulty of what you just shrugged off? 7 girls out of 5000 get to start for the national championship winning team but since she was the next outside on the depth chart she must not have been very good....
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Post by Boof1224 on Jul 29, 2014 13:33:08 GMT -5
Stanford USC Wisconsin Pennstate
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