OSU to Play Pepp

[palo]

From Buckeyes site...

ohiostatebuckeyes.collegesports.com/sports/m-volley/spec-rel/050105aac.html


Men's Volleyball faces Pepperdine Thursday at UCLA in the NCAA Championship Semifinals


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MIVA Tournament MVP Daniel Mathews and the men's volleyball team will face top-ranked Pepperdine Thursday in the NCAA Championship semifinals at UCLA


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May. 1, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fourth-seeded Ohio State (24-7) men's volleyball will face top-ranked Pepperdine (23-2) in the second semifinal of the NCAA Championship Thursday at UCLA. The match begins at midnight ET and will be carried live by ESPNU. It will be carried by ESPN2 at 1 p.m. ET on May 6. In the first semifinal, No. 2 seed Penn State (30-3) will face No. 3 seed and host UCLA (25-5) at 10 p.m. ET. That match will be carried live by ESPN2 and ESPNU. Thursday's winners will play Saturday at 11 p.m. ET to play for the National Championship. The match will be carried live by ESPN2.

Ohio State of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, Pepperdine of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and Penn State of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association received automatic bids to the Championship by winning their respective conference tournaments Saturday. UCLA, from the MPSF, received the at-large bid to the championship.

Ohio State is appearing in its 14th volleyball championship. The Buckeyes last participated in the Championship in 2001 at Long Beach State, losing 3-1 (30-21, 30-20, 22-30, 30-24) to UCLA in the semifinals.

[Smooth "954" Mike]

This match will be over quicker then OSU's bus ride from their hotel to the GYM. The wave's in 3 straight.....around 73 minutes, including TV timeouts.

[star035]

Two freshman setters (Matthews and Winder). Kind of interesting.

[spcttr]

Both are on the JNT roster, and they will both be trying out/ competing for the starting job on the JNT. Talk about a great place to "hold" a tryout. But Pepp has the superior athletes and will play on Saturday.

[anonymous]

spcttr said:

Both are on the JNT roster, and they will both be trying out/ competing for the starting job on the JNT. Talk about a great place to "hold" a tryout. But Pepp has the superior athletes and will play on Saturday.

who else is on the jnt roster for this summer?

[spcttr]

From what I understand......last year's JNT team qualified for the World Championships this summer. They can make some roster changes, but I believe they need to carry 10 players who were on last year's roster (if anyone knows different, please post). That being said, most of the college players who were on last year's squad sent in tapes to USAV as their "tryout." The next round of cuts will be made over Memorial Day weekend. The setter position is one spot where USAV may look to make some changes, so Mathews and Winder (and perhaps Beckwith, but he may be too old, or another setter) have been invited to this next session over Memorial Day. Whether they are "officially" on the roster is USAV's decision. Apologies to anyone I misled.

[northshore]

To answer your question about JNT...
Men's 2004 Junior National Team Roster
(from the USAV site)

Chase Budinger
James Grunst
Jayson Jablonsky
Tony Ker
Daniel Mathews
Christopher Jones
Sean O'Malley
Jake Schkud
David Smith
J. Matthew Webber
Jake Wiens
Jonathan Winder

As done in previous years, the roster is compiled of 18 players at this time. Then it is reduced to the 12 player traveling squad after the team has practiced together in the summer. For the 2005 18 player roster, most of the same players from the 12 member 2004 roster, but maybe not all. Plus some new faces, like Theo Brunner from UCSB. Also, a freshman from UCI who I can't think of his name right now. Last year Norm Hutton from Long Beach was there with the 18 players. According to local Hawaii papers Brian Beckwith is returning along with his UH team mate Jake Schkud. Jake was the JNT captain last year if i remember correctly.

Who might not be returning? Chase may play basketball. Jake Wiens left the UCSB program and not for sure what his plans are. Both will be missed if they don't return.

The USAV site says there are no held positions for the players. But I also heard something about the teams needing to bring "X" amount of returning players to the competition. Don't know if that's a NORCECA/FIVB rule or something.

That's all I know for now.