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Post by baytree on Nov 26, 2019 3:07:54 GMT -5
They end up playing enough high RPI teams and matches in conference. You schedule easy in non-con to make sure your are even eligible for the tournament. They're 22-8. They could've afforded a few losses on the noncon to get a higher RPI. At this point it's their RPI that might not only keep WSU out of the tournament but ASU as well. Sure, in hindsight that's easy to see. But, as several ppl have mentioned, this team is very frosh heavy. 3 of their 7 starters are true frosh and one is a redshirt frosh. I don't think any were senior aces. It's hard to predict how well a team like that will do. My guess is that Greeny wanted to start with an easier schedule than they'd see in conference play to give the team a chance to gel and get used to collegiate VB (and, for some of them, the USA). And, as mentioned above, the teams they scheduled had done better in the past two years so their decline would have been difficult to predict. |
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