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Post by badgerbreath on Jan 10, 2024 0:35:58 GMT -5
So, this is quite remarkable. A team that generally was pretty ridiculously good at serve receive just completely flopped in the NC match. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. Has to be one of the weirdest final 4s I've seen in quite a while. Whats remarkable is the differential (UA posted). Halter 2.25 (12) Barnes 2.29 (7) Akana 2.36 (7) Wenaas 1.64 (11) Skinner 2.25 (4) It’s one thing to have a horrible passing night, but you can offset that by serving tough and making your opponent have a horrible passing night. Texas was fairly solid in SR overall. In the 2021 match Texas was horrible but I believe Nebraska only passed like a 1.80 which is partly why that match was probably 2 points away from going to 5 sets. A good question for historians: has been any final that has had a comparable situation - where a strength turned into a weakness for one team, and vice versa for the other. One team can have a bad match, but normally teams don't exchange their identities that much.
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