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Post by vergyltantor on Jun 12, 2024 16:22:00 GMT -5
B1G 2024 Team Schedule links This is GREAT. THANK YOU. Just part of something I am putting together for Media Days. I thought I would post it now. |
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Post by hanmertime on Jun 12, 2024 16:22:06 GMT -5
Any schools with a distinct advantage or disadvantage with these schedules?
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Post by rollshotcornerpocket on Jun 12, 2024 16:25:10 GMT -5
I inherently have some bias here, but I see MSU right back competing for that 10 spot with Illinois this season. MSU finished middle of the pack last year (albeit in a more down year) and gave plenty of top teams fits all while essentially being one dimensional with a true freshman as your OH1. In 2024, you bring back the starting libero, starting setters for the 6-2, the starting Opp, an OH1 that was 2nd team B1G as a true freshman, and your utility front row player in Doezma that really did really well filling either the middle or Opp positions when necessary. THEN for newcomers, you go hit the portal hard and bring in a bonafide OH2 in Akasha Anderson with multiple other live arms in Danyle Courtney and Taylor Preston to elevate the floor of that room of pins. Plus you get arguably the best HS middle in the country in Mia Hood while also bringing in a fringe top 100 player to round out the DS/L room. Maybe this is hopium and I know the Big 10 is really REALLY good year in and year out. But I think this team will surprise people. You lost me at “Mia Hood arguably the best HS middle in the country”. I mean if you wanna give more flowers to Ames by all means go ahead. But your beef isn't with me go fight Prepvolleyball who gave Hood the nod not me. The original point of the post remains. MSU absolutely nailed their off-season and I think is poised to outperform expectations again. |
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Post by rollshotcornerpocket on Jun 12, 2024 16:33:21 GMT -5
I inherently have some bias here, but I see MSU right back competing for that 10 spot with Illinois this season. MSU finished middle of the pack last year (albeit in a more down year) and gave plenty of top teams fits all while essentially being one dimensional with a true freshman as your OH1. In 2024, you bring back the starting libero, starting setters for the 6-2, the starting Opp, an OH1 that was 2nd team B1G as a true freshman, and your utility front row player in Doezma that really did really well filling either the middle or Opp positions when necessary. THEN for newcomers, you go hit the portal hard and bring in a bonafide OH2 in Akasha Anderson with multiple other live arms in Danyle Courtney and Taylor Preston to elevate the floor of that room of pins. Plus you get arguably the best HS middle in the country in Mia Hood while also bringing in a fringe top 100 player to round out the DS/L room. Maybe this is hopium and I know the Big 10 is really REALLY good year in and year out. But I think this team will surprise people. Not sure about all your arguments. But - in Leah I trust, so I expect MSU will outperform expectations again. Curious what don't agree with. I know this is a tough league and that teams have all been doing work in the off-season. But it's hard for me to think that a team that returns 90% of it's production, and upgraded the outsides over the winter, will be multiple spots worse than they were last season. |
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Post by VBallLife on Jun 12, 2024 16:39:42 GMT -5
I inherently have some bias here, but I see MSU right back competing for that 10 spot with Illinois this season. MSU finished middle of the pack last year (albeit in a more down year) and gave plenty of top teams fits all while essentially being one dimensional with a true freshman as your OH1. In 2024, you bring back the starting libero, starting setters for the 6-2, the starting Opp, an OH1 that was 2nd team B1G as a true freshman, and your utility front row player in Doezma that really did really well filling either the middle or Opp positions when necessary. THEN for newcomers, you go hit the portal hard and bring in a bonafide OH2 in Akasha Anderson with multiple other live arms in Danyle Courtney and Taylor Preston to elevate the floor of that room of pins. Plus you get arguably the best HS middle in the country in Mia Hood while also bringing in a fringe top 100 player to round out the DS/L room. Maybe this is hopium and I know the Big 10 is really REALLY good year in and year out. But I think this team will surprise people. You lost me at “Mia Hood arguably the best HS middle in the country”. Me too |
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Post by slxpress on Jun 12, 2024 16:49:26 GMT -5
Me realizing the Big 10 with 18 teams completely skips A through H alphabetically. |
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Post by ay2013 on Jun 12, 2024 16:50:28 GMT -5
ok, here is my preliminary assessment of the non-conference so far. IMO The goal is for the ocllective conference to be at an 80% winning percentage or higher to maximize bids to the tournament this year. Given that, below are the Big 10 teams and their scheduled non-conference opponents where I think the Big 10 team stands a lower than 60% change of winning. This isn't a prediction, per say, this is based on the general fundamentals of how good the teams were last year, who is returning, when and where the match is being played, etc.
(this is in order of how they appear on the excel 2024 VB schedule for the Big 10 tab)
Nebraska (1): @ Louisville
Wisconsin (2) : @ Louisville, Texas
Oregon (2): Pitt, @ Colorado State
Penn State (2): Louisville, @ Pitt
Purdue (3): Kansas State, @ Kansas, Creighton
Minnesota (4): Stanford, Texas, TCU, Baylor
USC (5): @ Pepperdine, @ Pepperdine, @ Creighton, Kansas State, Pitt
UCLA (0)
Indiana (1): @ Texas
Washington (2): Georgia, @ Colorado
Ohio State (2): @ Dayton, @ Florida
Illinois (3): @ Iowa State, Dayton, Marquette
Northwestern (0)
Michigan State (6): @ Colorado State, Florida, Western Kentucky, Western Michigan, @ Duke, @ North Carolina
Maryland (1): @ LSU
Michigan (3): Notre Dame, @ North Carolina, @ Duke
Rutgers (3): Miami-FL, Colorado, @ Arkansas
Iowa...mmmmm, hard to gauge, especially if Moravec isn't coming back
From a pure scheduling perspective, so far the two eye rolls go to Michigan State and USC.
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Post by robtearle on Jun 12, 2024 17:01:06 GMT -5
Any schools with a distinct advantage or disadvantage with these schedules? The first thing I'd look at is who plays who twice. Each team plays three other teams twice and the rest only once. For example, Wisconsin plays Nebraska, Minnesota and Northwestern twice; Nebraska plays Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa twice. I'd say that might be a slight advantage to Nebraska. |
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Post by hawkfan on Jun 12, 2024 17:31:08 GMT -5
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Post by c4ndlelight on Jun 12, 2024 17:48:44 GMT -5
i will wait for trojansc / ay2013 to give us the rpi lowdown. (preferably yelling at someone for letting the b1g down, who is it this year lol) It might even be USC. I'm mostly looking at the travel now and seeing how it compares. Wasn't what I was expecting with the road/home splits in a singular week, but, I think it makes sense and nothing has me up in arms yet. Yeah, USC is likely due for another poor OOC W-L record. UCLA, Illinois, and Ohio St. also have a bad track record in scheduling well but haven't released their OOC schedule yet. I don't see Maryland and Northwestern yet, and they have downside risk as the weaker teams in conference, though I'm not sure what their staffs track records with RPI scheduling are. Also curious how aggressively schools like Washington and Indiana will schedule. |
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Post by ay2013 on Jun 12, 2024 17:53:35 GMT -5
It might even be USC. I'm mostly looking at the travel now and seeing how it compares. Wasn't what I was expecting with the road/home splits in a singular week, but, I think it makes sense and nothing has me up in arms yet. Yeah, USC is likely due for another poor OOC W-L record. UCLA, Illinois, and Ohio St. also have a bad track record in scheduling well but haven't released their OOC schedule yet. I don't see Maryland and Northwestern yet, and they have downside risk as the weaker teams in conference, though I'm not sure what their staffs track records with RPI scheduling are. Also curious how aggressively schools like Washington and Indiana will schedule. Indiana and Ohio State are complete. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gmvHBzlZvSncikzwH10xHTUP9vQjpEqwuWvgH0snJ8I/edit?gid=946094645#gid=946094645 |
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Post by Kearney Kingston on Jun 12, 2024 19:10:27 GMT -5
You lost me at “Mia Hood arguably the best HS middle in the country”. I mean if you wanna give more flowers to Ames by all means go ahead. But your beef isn't with me go fight Prepvolleyball who gave Hood the nod not me. The original point of the post remains. MSU absolutely nailed their off-season and I think is poised to outperform expectations again. MSU beat one good team last year - PSU at home. Did not beat any other NCAA team. How is that outperforming expectations. Where was the bar set in year two? I think they did some nice things over the off-season. The problem is four better teams just entered the league. |
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Post by vergyltantor on Jun 12, 2024 19:26:24 GMT -5
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Post by rollshotcornerpocket on Jun 12, 2024 19:41:15 GMT -5
I mean if you wanna give more flowers to Ames by all means go ahead. But your beef isn't with me go fight Prepvolleyball who gave Hood the nod not me. The original point of the post remains. MSU absolutely nailed their off-season and I think is poised to outperform expectations again. MSU beat one good team last year - PSU at home. Did not beat any other NCAA team. How is that outperforming expectations. Where was the bar set in year two? I think they did some nice things over the off-season. The problem is four better teams just entered the league. In 2022 MSU had a late cycle coach retirement and had their program ransacked for parts in the height of the portal era picking up scraps from blown up programs and recruiting internationally just to pickup 12 players to field a team. The !!!!###$$$!!! you mean “expectations” lol they were projected to be competing with Iowa for last place. I mean USC and UO are good but I’m not buying Indiana and a 16-15 Washington team being better this year. Oh well 🤷 |
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Post by ay2013 on Jun 12, 2024 19:45:37 GMT -5
MSU beat one good team last year - PSU at home. Did not beat any other NCAA team. How is that outperforming expectations. Where was the bar set in year two? I think they did some nice things over the off-season. The problem is four better teams just entered the league. In 2022 MSU had a late cycle coach retirement and had their program ransacked for parts in the height of the portal era picking up scraps from blown up programs and recruiting internationally just to pickup 12 players to field a team. The !!!!###$$$!!! you mean “expectations” lol they were projected to be competing with Iowa for last place. I mean USC and UO are good but I’m not buying Indiana and a 16-15 Washington team being better this year. Oh well 🤷 If you are saying that you think USC and Oregon will be as good or better this year than they were last year, and you don't think Indiana or Washington will be better this year than they were last year, I'd happily take that bet. |
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