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Post by trojansc on Aug 2, 2020 23:40:10 GMT -5
Although that makes me wonder the question: Which NCAA team, professional team, or national federation have had the most painful losses?
USC, as already mentioned, has taken a ton of tough losses in the NCAA Tournament, in 5 sets.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 2, 2020 23:47:07 GMT -5
Although that makes me wonder the question: Which NCAA team, professional team, or national federation have had the most painful losses? USC, as already mentioned, has taken a ton of tough losses in the NCAA Tournament, in 5 sets. 24x19 (Brazil v Russia Athens SF) has to be the single worst. Italy's women have also had their share over the years.
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Post by ironhammer on Aug 2, 2020 23:54:31 GMT -5
Although that makes me wonder the question: Which NCAA team, professional team, or national federation have had the most painful losses? USC, as already mentioned, has taken a ton of tough losses in the NCAA Tournament, in 5 sets. 24x19 (Brazil v Russia Athens SF) has to be the single worst. Italy's women have also had their share over the years. That was certainly a very memorable match: Also don't forget Thailand's brutal loss to Japan during the Rio qualification tournament: The full match:
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Post by trojansc on Aug 2, 2020 23:57:39 GMT -5
That 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament was an absolute embarrassment. There were technological issues in almost every match for the other nations not named Japan with substitutions and challenges. This caused several delays and also issues at the scoring table.
Thailand was definitely the biggest victim by far. I also DETEST that referee, not just for that much.
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Post by naujack85 on Aug 3, 2020 2:35:46 GMT -5
2001 WS game 7, when do you ever bring the infield in with Rivera on the mound and all those broken bat bloops he intices! OTOH, this is my favorite game to watch. So much screaming, jumping, hugging in my family room!!!! My favorite sports memory! I was 16 and watching on a giant screen at my church with all my friends. I've never seen my pastor get excited about anything in my 20 years of knowing him but he was jumping up and down like a school girl.
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Post by beesknees on Aug 3, 2020 7:43:24 GMT -5
London: USA v. Brazil. I still have never seen it. You can now...if you want: Just watched it again. Logan Tom was second to none at reading the game.
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Post by alhorford90 on Aug 3, 2020 8:17:25 GMT -5
You’re right. Just wanted maybe a shorter leash. Nwanebu was soooo good! But yeah, Bricio, Shaw and Ruddins all hit .100 or lower. If just one of them hit better it could’ve had a different outcome Painful. But at the end of the day, it was a heavyweight battle that could have gone either way. USC won two deuce sets that match and Washington beat USC 3x, we can't put the blame solely on Bricio.. A 38 kill/30 dig performance by Vansant was... incredible. Washington was the better, more consistent team that year.
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Post by azvb on Aug 3, 2020 11:28:28 GMT -5
OTOH, this is my favorite game to watch. So much screaming, jumping, hugging in my family room!!!! My favorite sports memory! I was 16 and watching on a giant screen at my church with all my friends. I've never seen my pastor get excited about anything in my 20 years of knowing him but he was jumping up and down like a school girl. Remember those two painful games in NY when Byoung Yun Kim (sp?) blew those two saves? ?? I was sooooo happy Randy Johnson was our closer in game 7!!!!!!
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 3, 2020 11:46:35 GMT -5
That 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament was an absolute embarrassment. There were technological issues in almost every match for the other nations not named Japan with substitutions and challenges. This caused several delays and also issues at the scoring table. Thailand was definitely the biggest victim by far. I also DETEST that referee, not just for that much. The real tragedy of that OQT was how it was designed to promote Japan and Thailand in the first place by quota'ing out better teams that could have beat them from Europe. Thailand's complaint is that it wasn't rigged enough in their favor.
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Post by trojansc on Aug 3, 2020 13:00:36 GMT -5
That 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament was an absolute embarrassment. There were technological issues in almost every match for the other nations not named Japan with substitutions and challenges. This caused several delays and also issues at the scoring table. Thailand was definitely the biggest victim by far. I also DETEST that referee, not just for that much. The real tragedy of that OQT was how it was designed to promote Japan and Thailand in the first place by quota'ing out better teams that could have beat them from Europe. Thailand's complaint is that it wasn't rigged enough in their favor. I obviously don’t/didn’t agree with the Olympic Qualification system. I also think giving a complete bid giveaway to Puerto Rico is even more criminal than combining the Asian Qualification tournament with the World Qualifying tournament. That doesn’t change the fact that the technology fail was embarrassing for the sport.. I accept quota’ing out the Europe teams, but if the motive was purely to get more Asian teams in, I would have thought they’d send the 3rd NORCECA there (PR) instead of the 2nd (DR). Didn’t it used to be Top 3 and THEN Best Asian team, regardless if an Asian team was Top 3? They changed it to make it Best Asian, then next three qualify? The change in 2020 made the process seem slightly more fair, but with how unbalanced the pools were, it was only slightly so. Russia got a gift. I think they are Top 12 in the world obviously, but they might not have qualified had Korea beat them.
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Post by bballnut90 on Aug 3, 2020 14:39:53 GMT -5
Although that makes me wonder the question: Which NCAA team, professional team, or national federation have had the most painful losses? USC, as already mentioned, has taken a ton of tough losses in the NCAA Tournament, in 5 sets. Maybe not the most all time, but Penn State in the 90s had it pretty rough: 1993- lose game 4 in the title match after being up 14-11 in front of a largely pro-PSU crowd. 1994- lost in 5 vs. UCLA in the semifinals 1996- lost in 5 at Nebraska in regional finals. Penn State 11-5 in the 5th, and 14-12. Ended up losing 20-18. 1997- lost in 5 in the title game vs. Stanford, a team they beat rather easily twice earlier in the year. Clawed back and pushed it to 5 but just ran out of steam. 1998- entered the match 35-0 and lost in 5 games after leading 7-2 in the 5th. Wisconsin also had a rough stretch from 1997-2000: 97-lost at home to Florida in regional finals after being up 2-0 98-lost in regionals at Nebraska in 5, lost one of those games after being up 14-9 00-had a 2-1 lead on undefeated Nebraska in the title game, lost in 5 and in the Carlini years: 2013- led 23-20 in the 4th set of the title game, lost 25-23 2014- Carlini gets injured, Badgers are the higher seed and win first set but wind up losing in 4 to Penn State 2015- Badgers lose in 5 to Florida in regional semis as favored team 2016- Badgers lose at home to Stanford in 5 after being up 2-0 and being the favored team Now Wisconsin has what appears to be the #1 preseason team in the country with a senior laden roster, and yet the season looks doubtful at this point due to covid.
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Post by ironhammer on Aug 3, 2020 22:56:39 GMT -5
Texas vs Penn state in the 2009 championship 😔 You can watch the match again if you like:
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Post by greatlakesvballer on Aug 4, 2020 11:25:24 GMT -5
This one...the worst.
2016 - Badgers lose at home to Stanford in 5 after being up 2-0 and being the favored team
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Post by Cmd12 on Aug 4, 2020 11:37:13 GMT -5
USA vs. BRA 2012 final. Ugh still mad that Larson hit off Sheila touch early in set 3 wasn’t called. But whatever
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Post by scottysocc on Aug 5, 2020 0:17:30 GMT -5
Although that makes me wonder the question: Which NCAA team, professional team, or national federation have had the most painful losses? USC, as already mentioned, has taken a ton of tough losses in the NCAA Tournament, in 5 sets. Man I feel for USC. They've had several devastating regional final loses. 2013 Regional Final: they went up two sets to none against Washington AND they ultimately had a match point and a swing opportunity in the 5th set of that game and they still los. 2015 Regional Final: they were up 13-9 in the 5th against Kansas. Unbelievably, Kansas scored the next 6 points to win the match. 2017 Regional Final: they had match point in the 4th set against Florida. They ultimately lost in 5. USC is overdue for a Final Four appearance.
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