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Post by WahineFan44 on Nov 29, 2015 0:40:41 GMT -5
Please no. I rather face a different team, but I fully expect it to be a dog fight if these two teams face eachtoher, with washington winning in four or 5. I hope you're right. It would be a shame, again, for these two teams to square off in round 2. But it would be an epic match...just unfair. Completely unfair. No way two teams who have elite eight potential (if playing well) should face that early. Im not getting my hopes up though. I see us going to washington or UCLA. Oh well. May the best team win and may entertaining volleyball ensue!
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Post by dawgnerd on Nov 29, 2015 1:18:58 GMT -5
Two things every Husky fan wants: 1. Take care of business; get this over in 3. Don't screw around. 2. No repeat of last years' final match with WSU when an injury really altered the UW tournament run. Mission accomplished.
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Post by alwayslearning on Nov 29, 2015 1:21:40 GMT -5
Back from the match. Wasn't expecting the biggest crowd of the year, but that's what we got. There was a promotion -- if you had a ticket to the football game yesterday, you got in free. Hopefully some people discovered Husky volleyball.
WSU alternately impresses with flashes of brilliance and then frustrates with undisciplined, sloppy play. No real drama in terms of the outcome, but some exciting, long rallies.
I assume that what we saw tonight in terms of the rotations is what we will see for the most part in the tournament. Specifically, Tanner playing six rotations and hitting opposite. Condie and possibly Magraw in spot back row duty and Julye in some spot front row duty, primarily for Tanner. The one Husky we have seen almost none of the second half of the season is Jade Finau. This surprises me, both because Cook has generally been liberal about subbing and because you want Finau to be ready if a setter goes down. Perhaps Cook is thinking that either Beals or Tanner could run a 5-1, but changing your whole offense in the tournament seems unlikely.
Huskies looked pretty good most of the night with some bouts of inconsistency. Since the five-set loss to Stanford at Maples, the Huskies have won 33 sets and lost 3. I feel like Oregon gave the Huskies their most competitive match during that streak, more competitive than USC, Stanford, or UCLA (all three matches in the friendly confines of Hec Ed).
I'm hoping these seniors have a breakthrough NCAA tournament. They've been to a Final Four as sophomores and a heartbreaking Regional last year. Carpe diem Huskies!
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Post by dawgnerd on Nov 29, 2015 1:48:36 GMT -5
Memorable UW moments: (in no particular order) Strickland's first serve - crushed between two receivers and neither of them reacted. Sybeldon being shut down by a solid triple block, followed next play by Tanner back-setting to Jones for an almost open swing. Made them pay for committing to the middle. Condi scampering all over the court, taking hard spikes and chasing down deflections and chips. Jones and Schwan hitting mirrored rolls straight down, outside of the left and right blocks, coming down on the line about 3 feet from the net. Schwan dropping several nearly identical ultra-short serves in a row for aces and very OOS plays. Scambray taking a high middle transition set and ripping it inside the block into a very tight cross court at full power. Sybeldon's grin as she turned back after a power hit came back up to her and she beat the block to the ball and pushed it to the back of the court for a kill.
Not that there were not plenty of things to work on, but the team looks confident, loose and ready to play tournament ball.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Nov 29, 2015 2:33:18 GMT -5
I like the balance. Six hitters with 6 or more kills. At the match, my impression was that Schwan hadn't done all that much, but then I see that she had 11 kills, one error, and hit .526. A couple, I think, were hit with some heat - the rest were simply skillfully placed where the defenders weren't.
We did get a little sloppy in the third set, with 6 of 11 hitting errors in that set. Some of that was that the Huskies relaxed a bit, while the Cougs came out fighting harder.
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Post by tomclen on Nov 29, 2015 8:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by tomclen on Nov 29, 2015 9:08:37 GMT -5
With her 2 aces last night, Strickland is now #2 on the UW list of most aces. Only 9 aces behind Tomasevic. And, of course, Tomasevic did it in the era of sets-to-30-points. (Plus, as I'm sure some Nebraska fan will remind us, Tomasevic played until she was 40. )
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Post by tomclen on Nov 29, 2015 9:16:08 GMT -5
From the WSU volleyball website:
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