Club Nationals Charlotte N.C link

[gobears]

www.nirsa.net/sc/vb/2004/index.htm

Teams are flying/driving in now. About 230 teams men and women. 4 Divisions for men. 2 for women.

Tourney seedings up shortly.
Scores will start appearing on Thursday.

[IdahoBoy]

The University of Idaho is finally seeded in a division that they have a chance in. When I was there, we were always competing in Division 1 (it is now based on school size).

Now they are in Division 2, I think they will fare quite nicely.



Thanks for the link.

[banthony2]

Let's go Bulldogs!
I may go to BYU now, but I still have my Fresno State ID card in my wallet.

[gobears]

Fresno State is seeded #2. I have not seen them play a whole lot, but this may be their year. They have a lot of veterans. The only thing I can think of that may cause them problems is that they have not been tested with hardly any close games where they have to keep pushing to finally win. Remains to be seen how they handle pressure thru out a match.
The one time I saw them in a close game, they started getting tense and panicky...altho they pulled it out.

Unfortunate that they did not or could not schedule a couple MPSF teams during the season for experience.

Funny things happen at Nationals at times.

[lalalaluuuke]

IdahoBoy® said:

The University of Idaho is finally seeded in a division that they have a chance in. When I was there, we were always competing in Division 1 (it is now based on school size).

Now they are in Division 2, I think they will fare quite nicely.

Unfortunately U of I lost their starting setter and one of their starting MB's at semester because of grad school obligations. They are still probably stronger than in the past but position changes are still being adjusted to. I hope they do well.

GO VANDALS!!

[gobears]

Seeds and brackets are not up yet, 9am, westcoast time Weds, but 'playing schedule ' is for Thurs. so the pool can be figured out from that.

www.nirsa.net/sc/vb/2004/results/schedule.html

I just spoke to Cal coach Gernot and Cal is seeded #4! Hopefully the Bears bring their A game the whole time.

[fightingminime]

Go Illinois!!! . . . especially my girls!!!

[IdahoBoy]

RedYukon said:

Unfortunately U of I lost their starting setter and one of their starting MB's at semester because of grad school obligations. They are still probably stronger than in the past but position changes are still being adjusted to. I hope they do well.

GO VANDALS!!

They found the starting setter was ineligible was the biggest reason for him not joining them at Nationals. The setter that is there now will perform quite nicely.

That player was phenomenal though. Even though he was only 5-7. I'm actually surprised you know about that. What else do you know?

[gobears]

Seedings up:
Top 18 Men's Div. l

MEN'S DIVISION 1

1. Milwaukee Area Tech
2. Fresno State
3. U Indiana-A
4. UC-Berkeley
5. U Colorado
6. Arizona-A
7. U Michigan
8. Penn St U
9. Cal Polytechnic-SLO-A
10. UC-Davis-A
11. Marquette U
12. U Nevada-Las Vegas
13. U Illinois-A
14. U Cincinnati
15. UW-Madison
16. UW-Oshkosh-A
17. U Utah
18. San Diego St U

link for all seedings men and women
www.nirsa.net/sc/vb/2004/rankings_4_7.htm

[planetasia01]

I just saw IUs team.. and that 5-7 setter is with them. I was on the way out, so i didnt know if hes still playing, or cheering them on, or whatevr.

[IdahoBoy]

planetasia01 said:

I just saw IUs team.. and that 5-7 setter is with them. I was on the way out, so i didnt know if hes still playing, or cheering them on, or whatevr.

IU meaning Indiana? Or Idaho?

I could be wrong, I'd have to dig up old files to see when he started to check his eligibility.

[lalalaluuuke]

planetasia01 said:

I just saw IUs team.. and that 5-7 setter is with them. I was on the way out, so i didnt know if hes still playing, or cheering them on, or whatevr.

That could have been Chris, one of their OHs. He is about the same size as Bernie. Chris also is a backup setter if necessary. He has a great swing and can get up pretty high.
Bernie said last month that he wasn't going to ntls. but would still continue to practice and help out the team where he could.

[Beachy]

Idaho Boy
Where are your graphics? They are always the best.

edit.....ok , your graphics are back, it must be my computer, sorry

but I do like the Idaho banner better

[IdahoBoy]

Beachy said:

Idaho Boy
Where are your graphics? They are always the best.

edit.....ok , your graphics are back, it must be my computer, sorry

but I do like the Idaho banner better

Hi Beachy. Thanks for the graphics note. I have fun with them.

There could have been a moment when I had to reboot my webserver to fix an issue that would have made my graphics not show up. Lo siento! I try to keep those to a minimum.