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Post by wahinefan on Dec 2, 2021 20:45:28 GMT -5
For the Wahine to win, Tiffany Westerberg has to have a BIG Night, not only with Blocking, but more so, on the Offensive side. If Westerberg gets about 10 kills, the Wahine will win.
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Post by honore on Dec 2, 2021 20:47:27 GMT -5
There is a predicted possibility of snow Friday night, which would be really unusual for early December. (It would probably be mixed rain and snow and nothing would stick to the ground.) Had a light dusting of white on Mauna Kea last night. The wet front starting on Kauai will move down the chain and 4 inches of snow is predicted this weekend on the Big Island summits. As I write this I hear thunder in the darkened skies north. |
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Post by Timeless on Dec 2, 2021 20:48:02 GMT -5
For the Wahine to win, Tiffany Westerberg has to have a BIG Night, not only with Blocking, but more so, on the Offensive side. If Westerberg gets about 10 kills, the Wahine will win. That's if Lang actually sets her... |
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Post by honore on Dec 2, 2021 20:50:14 GMT -5
Hope we don't miss the streaming of the first set. I called ESPN and told them the start time will be half an hour earlier. So far no updated started time on ESPN+.
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Post by wahinefan on Dec 2, 2021 21:10:21 GMT -5
For the Wahine to win, Tiffany Westerberg has to have a BIG Night, not only with Blocking, but more so, on the Offensive side. If Westerberg gets about 10 kills, the Wahine will win. That's if Lang actually sets her... The thing is, what position is MSU not expecting points to come from, that is the Opposite position. So whether it is Westerberg, or even Leoniak, if the Wahine can get double figure points out of that position, the Wahine have a very good chance of beating MSU. Robyn needs to be quick in pulling a struggling player, use her bench. Quite sure MSU does not have much video on any of the bench players. These bench players will play a BIG Part on how deep the Wahine can go in the NCAA Tournament. |
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Post by wahinefan on Dec 2, 2021 21:55:32 GMT -5
For the Wahine to go deep into the NCAA Tournament, they will have to do it as a Team. By that I mean, players such as Martyna Leoniak, Anna Kiraly, Mia Johnson, and even Braelyn Akana, and Mylana Byrd, need to be ready to go when called upon. All these bench have Started and played minutes this season. They cannot come in tentative, but ready to go as soon as they step on the volleyball floor. The Wahine can win quite a few matches, but these players need to be ready, and contribute, when called upon. This is the only way the Wahine will win matches from here on out, as a TEAM. GO WAHINE, AS A TEAM!!!!
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Post by wahinefan on Dec 2, 2021 22:54:31 GMT -5
Serious Problem in UW Country, the UW-UCLA Basketball match set for this coming Sunday, has been called off due to 7 members of the UW Men's Basketball Team, players and coaches, have been tested Positive for Covid. What does this mean for this Sub Regional in Seattle? I presume all UW Women's Volleyball players will now be tested, not to exclude the Coaching Staff also. Is it only pertaining to the UW Men's Basketball Team, or has it spread throughout the UW Athletic Department? Do not want any of the Wahine players or coaching staff to contract Covid due to playing in this Sub-Regional. Hopefully, the NCAA will get a handle on this situation, immediately.
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Post by vbsam16 on Dec 2, 2021 23:14:49 GMT -5
Serious Problem in UW Country, the UW-UCLA Basketball match set for this coming Sunday, has been called off due to 7 members of the UW Men's Basketball Team, players and coaches, have been tested Positive for Covid. What does this mean for this Sub Regional in Seattle? I presume all UW Women's Volleyball players will now be tested, not to exclude the Coaching Staff also. Is it only pertaining to the UW Men's Basketball Team, or has it spread throughout the UW Athletic Department? Do not want any of the Wahine players or coaching staff to contract Covid due to playing in this Sub-Regional. Hopefully, the NCAA will get a handle on this situation, immediately. This makes me very nervous... |
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Post by wahinefan on Dec 2, 2021 23:24:31 GMT -5
Serious Problem in UW Country, the UW-UCLA Basketball match set for this coming Sunday, has been called off due to 7 members of the UW Men's Basketball Team, players and coaches, have been tested Positive for Covid. What does this mean for this Sub Regional in Seattle? I presume all UW Women's Volleyball players will now be tested, not to exclude the Coaching Staff also. Is it only pertaining to the UW Men's Basketball Team, or has it spread throughout the UW Athletic Department? Do not want any of the Wahine players or coaching staff to contract Covid due to playing in this Sub-Regional. Hopefully, the NCAA will get a handle on this situation, immediately. This makes me very nervous... You should be nervous, so should Brown University, and the other 2 teams in this Sub-Regional. |
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Post by bucky415 on Dec 3, 2021 3:05:06 GMT -5
Mississippi State is a great story this year and a deserving tournament team, but I still think Hawai'i has an edge with BVS and Igiede.
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Post by tomclen on Dec 3, 2021 6:20:42 GMT -5
Serious Problem in UW Country, the UW-UCLA Basketball match set for this coming Sunday, has been called off due to 7 members of the UW Men's Basketball Team, players and coaches, have been tested Positive for Covid. What does this mean for this Sub Regional in Seattle? I presume all UW Women's Volleyball players will now be tested, not to exclude the Coaching Staff also. Is it only pertaining to the UW Men's Basketball Team, or has it spread throughout the UW Athletic Department? Do not want any of the Wahine players or coaching staff to contract Covid due to playing in this Sub-Regional. Hopefully, the NCAA will get a handle on this situation, immediately. This makes me very nervous... It should create a great deal of concern. This could unravel this subregional (and perhaps beyond) pretty quickly if it's more than just a very isolated situation. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 3, 2021 11:41:30 GMT -5
There is a predicted possibility of snow Friday night, which would be really unusual for early December. (It would probably be mixed rain and snow and nothing would stick to the ground.) Had a light dusting of white on Mauna Kea last night. The wet front starting on Kauai will move down the chain and 4 inches of snow is predicted this weekend on the Big Island summits. As I write this I hear thunder in the darkened skies north. Well, mountains, yeah. There has been fresh snow in the mountains here for quite some time already this winter. But I meant flakes actually falling in the Seattle area. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 3, 2021 12:04:06 GMT -5
BTW, even for my house 500 feet above sea level, snow is no longer being mentioned in the forecast until Sunday night.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Dec 3, 2021 13:01:58 GMT -5
Mississippi State took long road to NCAA date with Rainbow Wahine
By Jason Kaneshiro
SEATTLE >> Mississippi State took the long road to get to the NCAA Tournament.
After learning of their postseason assignment in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, the Bulldogs departed Starkville, Miss., in two groups on Wednesday. One pack headed to Atlanta, the other to Houston, and the team regrouped in Seattle after their lengthy flights.
But after waiting 47 years to make a tournament appearance, the travel logistics weren’t about to slow the Bulldogs down entering today’s first-round match with Hawaii at Alaska Airlines Arena.
“We’re definitely still on that adrenaline rush,” Mississippi State coach Julie Darty Dennis said after the Bulldogs’ practice on Thursday.
Mississippi State (25-5) finds itself in new territory entering its NCAA Tournament debut today against a Rainbow Wahine team making the program’s 39th appearance and 28th straight in the sub-regional hosted by Washington. The Huskies, the No. 15 national seed, face Brown in today’s second match.
The Big West champion Rainbow Wahine (21-7) arrived in Seattle on Wednesday morning for the program’s fifth postseason appearance in Hec Edmundson Pavilion since 2010. They had their first practice on the Washington campus Wednesday night and kept the energy high in a 90-minute session on Thursday, their final full practice in advance of today’s 2 p.m. match, which will be streamed on ESPN+.
“Everything is to get to this point, and it’s almost like every emotion, everything just turns up,” UH middle blocker Amber Igiede said on the eve of her second NCAA Tournament appearance. “Your adrenaline turns up. It’s what you work for this whole season and hopefully it pays off.”
The Wahine have spent the week preparing for an up-tempo Mississippi State attack that helped the Bulldogs defy preseason expectations to place second in a Southeastern Conference race that produced seven NCAA Tournament teams.
The Bulldogs went 5-15 in the shortened 2020-21 season, and Dennis said the experience helped the Bulldogs develop their chemistry on and off the court. Mississippi State was voted 12th out of 13 teams in the SEC preseason poll in August and the extra dose of motivation helped the Bulldogs set program records for overall and conference victories, going 16-2 in conference play to finish a game behind defending national champion Kentucky.
“We knew there was something special when we saw our ranking in the SEC,” sophomore outside hitter Shania Cromartie said. “We just knew we wanted to prove everyone wrong. At the beginning of the season there was a huge mentality shift.”
The Bulldogs also altered their on-court personality prior to the season. After going with high and wide sets last season, Dennis implemented a new system based on beating blockers to the spot.
The speed-based attack opened the way for senior Gabby Waden to average 3.41 kills per set, followed by Lauren Myrick at 3.15 and the 5-foot-9 Cromartie at 2.58.
Senior setters Margaret Dean and Gabby Coulter joined the program as transfers last season and thrived in the increased pace this season.
“In our first three seasons we were not going that fast. We really just said let’s just do it this year and tried with our setters to go as fast as we can,” Dennis said.
“They both have experience going high, going fast, just going at a lot of different tempos. So they were willing and able to adapt to our new system and try it. They just wanted to see if it worked and it did work, so we’re just going to keep going with it.”
The Bulldogs closed the regular season on a school-record 13-match winning streak and at No. 23 in the AVCA coaches poll after making the program’s first appearance in the national rankings on Nov. 22.
The Wahine saw a similar style in a five-set loss to UC Santa Barbara in their regular-season finale last Saturday and the coaches got into the action to help simulate the pace they’ll see today.
“Today was a lot of good energy again. Good intensity in the gym,” UH assistant coach Nick Castello said after Thursday’s practice. “A lot of movement, not really a lot of breaks and they bought into that and continued to push.
“That’s what we’re trying to do, increase the level of intensity so (today) when the madness happens we’re ready to handle it.”
In studying UH, Dennis came away impressed with UH’s acumen in an attack led by Big West Player of the Year Brooke Van Sickle and fellow all-conference honorees Igiede and Skyler Williams in the middle and setter Kate Lang.
“They’re smart, they’re savvy, they’re great volleyball players,” Dennis said of the Wahine. “They play with a lot of finesse. They’re not as physical as what we’ve seen in the SEC, but I think they’re just a group of well-coached, well-prepared, good volleyball players. Great ball control and we’re going to have to make sure we serve tough and get them out of system.”
NCAA Volleyball Tournament
At Alaska Airlines Arena, Seattle
Hawaii (21-7) vs. Mississippi State (25-5)
>> When: Today, 2 p.m.
>> Radio: 1420-AM/92.7-FM
>> Online video: ESPN+ subscription required
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Post by dawgnerd on Dec 3, 2021 13:11:36 GMT -5
So, there seems to be a discrepancy in start times between the NCAA tournament site, which says this match is at 4:30 and the UW schedule, which says 4:00. I called the UW ticket office and they confirmed the 4:00 time - not that the person answering the phone at the ticket office is necessarily the most authoritative source. (Of course, reading back now, I see that this has already been noted for a while - but still not corrected) Guess I'll show up at 4:00.
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