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Post by Mulcahy on Dec 1, 2004 0:20:25 GMT -5
Does anyone know anything about the Shockers? UCSB fans? Also, why didn't their big gun (can't remember her name) play in the conference finals?
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Post by TheSantaBarbarian on Dec 1, 2004 1:31:53 GMT -5
We played them the first match of the season. You could check the UCSB website for the stats, but I think that it would be of little practical use this late in the season. (We had a pretty easy time with them, but that was long ago now.)
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Post by I Luv Danny R on Dec 1, 2004 2:21:23 GMT -5
We creamed them!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Gauchos
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Post by huskervbfan on Dec 1, 2004 3:16:52 GMT -5
We played Wichita State in a spring tournament with Nebraska, @kansas State, Colorado State and Wichita State. They came in 2nd and were very impressive. There were a lot of Husker fans there that I talked to afterwards and we were all in agreement that they were going to do very well this year.
In spring ball, everyone just wears nonnumberer and non-named T-shirts so I don't know who was standing out from the rest but they've got some good hitters. Their best should be back for the tournament. It think it was an ankle injury. Coach Lamb held her out of the MVC tournament because he thought they could win without her and did so they will be stronger in the NCAA Tourney than they were in the MVC Final.
Lambo has really takent that team a long ways in a short time. Watch for him on another team in the near years to come.
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Post by GoVB on Dec 1, 2004 7:32:32 GMT -5
Lambo has really takent that team a long ways in a short time. Watch for him on another team in the near years to come. Unfortunately for WSU, I think you're correct. Chris has done a fantastic job of turning this program around. WSU has a nice group of athletic players, and good depth. Strong middles have allowed them more offensive flexibility this year. HuskerVBFan, I won't be able to make it this weekend, but I hope you'll cheer my Shox on -- at least in Friday night's match.  |
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Post by OverAndUnder on Dec 1, 2004 8:55:36 GMT -5
We played Wichita State in a spring tournament with Nebraska, @kansas State, Colorado State and Wichita State. They came in 2nd and were very impressive. There were a lot of Husker fans there that I talked to afterwards and we were all in agreement that they were going to do very well this year. Are you saying that Wichita State beat KSU and CSU, two AVCA top-20 teams, and yet WSU has never made an appearance in the AVCA Poll? But, but... that almost implies that the AVCA is a popularity contest and not a true measure of the teams' relative strength! Say it ain't so, Joe! |
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Post by huskervbfan on Dec 1, 2004 9:35:48 GMT -5
Are you saying that Wichita State beat KSU and CSU, two AVCA top-20 teams, and yet WSU has never made an appearance in the AVCA Poll? But, but... that almost[/b] implies that the AVCA is a popularity contest and not a true measure of the teams' relative strength! Say it ain't so, Joe![/quote] I'm not clear what you mean. Wichita State beat those teams in a spring tournament at K-State which has nothing to do with this season. They are in the Missouri Valley conference and won that to qualify going undefeated. No other team from that conference made it I don't believe. I don't think they ever cracked the Top 25 but were close. They did start out with a few losses early so never really got into the radar until recently. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2004 9:50:18 GMT -5
They did not go undefeated in the Mo Valley--Creighton beat them in Omaha. That was their only loss.
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Post by OverAndUnder on Dec 1, 2004 11:18:05 GMT -5
I'm not clear what you mean. Wichita State beat those teams in a spring tournament at K-State which has nothing to do with this season. They are in the Missouri Valley conference and won that to qualify going undefeated. No other team from that conference made it I don't believe. I don't think they ever cracked the Top 25 but were close. They did start out with a few losses early so never really got into the radar until recently. My bad, I was quick-scanning the writeup and missed that it was a spring tournament. Rather poor reading comprehension skills, eh? |
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Post by huskervbfan on Dec 1, 2004 11:30:01 GMT -5
My bad, I was quick-scanning the writeup and missed that it was a spring tournament. Rather poor reading comprehension skills, eh? Well I had forgotten about the loss to Creighton so we're even. Thanks EOV for pointing that out. |
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Post by Gwangipal on Dec 1, 2004 18:55:00 GMT -5
Both of the Lambs are terrific coaches with great backgrounds, but I would be a little surprised to see them exit for another school. Like Lincoln, Wichita is VERY supportive of coaches who coach well, and for a young couple with their first child, it's tough to pick a better place to raise her. They've got a 6'4" RS just waiting, a town that is rabid about sports and has a helload of money (Wichita, in the 90s, spent more per capita on original art than any other city in the country; and Koch Oil family members were big in America's Cup financing), a college without a football team so VB can "rule," and Lamb's staff is just a few years into this. In the 90s WSU did beat KU and KS to claim the unofficial Kansas title. KSU is Kansas champ fair and sqaure this year by beating both, but I think KU is wisely ducking WSU. After this appearance I think we can start looking at Lamb bringing in more players from the coast, especially with their San Diego tourney appearance: Wichita played UCSB closer than did Cal, and while the first game was a blowout, the next three were tight. For a young team on its first trip west in...is it two years?... they did well. Without Younes, their one California player, this will be tough against Nevada (and it would, I think be tough anyhow), but in three years my guess is that the Nebraska-Wichita State matches will determine who's champion of the Great Plains. Unlike the two other DI Kansas schools, Lamb both values Kansas kids AND is not reluctant to recruit California kids; WSU had two team captains from California in the few years before he came on board: Sara Larson and Julia Schnurstein. Laugh if you will, but I think a great argument can be made that if the coach's bio on their website is longer than Albert Einstein's entry in the Encyclopedia (and they have not won a national championship) there could be problems:
KSU Fritz: 1679 words
USC Haley: 1561 words
KU Borchard: 761 words
Hawaii Shoji: 652 words
Wichita Lamb: 542 words
I think that about settles it. Go, Shox!
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Post by IdahoBoy on Dec 1, 2004 19:02:33 GMT -5
They did not go undefeated in the Mo Valley--Creighton beat them in Omaha. That was their only loss. Creighton also up-ended Missouri in the Missouri invitational earlier this year. It's a "ShocK!" that they weren't invited to the tournament with their win over seeded Missouri! Either that, or the Committee didn't care about it. |
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Post by Gwangipal on Dec 1, 2004 19:18:07 GMT -5
Also, I think one cannot overemphasize that teams with vegetative mascots do well in the playoffs, once they're in: Stanford trees (they are the Cardinal but use a green tree); Ohio State Buckeyes; University of Arkansas-Monticello Cotton Belles; Scottsdale JC Fighting Artichokes made the second round of the JC D2 tourney; but scariest of all is that giant shock of wheat that looks like Stephen King had a waaaaay bad nightmare and that Wichita State has a continuing child trauma program for kids who were offered a piece of Shicker Wheat! bread by this 10' tall and obviously genetically modified piece of walking starch.
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Post by VolleyVixenNV on Dec 1, 2004 22:11:57 GMT -5
Should be a fun match as Lambo and the Nevada assistants are all good friends...Let's not forget the reward for winning this match...
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Post by Gwangipal on Dec 2, 2004 9:57:32 GMT -5
Free drinks?
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