In other news.... (a Catch-all Thread - Spoilers)

Scary good is right! Got me thinking how we compare now to previous PSU seasons, and to corresponding National Champions. Here is PSU cumulative team attack (efficiency) stat history from the archives online at gopsusports.com/sports/2018/8/8/sports-w-volley-archive-psu-w-volley-archive-html.aspx Added the season hitting percentage of the respective Nation Champions over the years to compare.

PSU Cumulative Team Hitting % by year - National Champs %

.282 2004 - Stanford - not on Stanford Archives online
.307 2005 - Washington .338
.323 2006 - Nebraska .296
.350 2007 - Penn State = National Champions
.390 2008 - Penn State = National Champions
.381 2009 - Penn State = National Champions
.314 2010 - Penn State = National Champions
2011 & 2012 not on PSU Archives online
2011 - UCLA .251
2012 - Texas not on Texas Archives online
.305 2013 - Penn State = National Champions
.342 2014 - Penn State = National Champions
.295 2015 - Nebraska .274
.291 2016 - Stanford .274
.339 2017 - Nebraska .282
.264 2018 - Stanford .307
.287 2019 - Stanford .301
.266 2020 - Kentucky .360
.259 2021 - Wisconsin .291
.222 2022 - Texas .336

.249 2023 - Penn State after six matches

Penn State hit for higher efficiency than the National Champions in 2006, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Since 2018 PSU has recorded its lowest cumulative team hitting efficiency in nearly 20 seasons. Again, 2011 & 2012 PSU stats were not online.

Wisc is so loaded that Orzol is playing Libero. Saw them smack Arizona around. They looked like a No. 1 team.

American University HC Barry Goldberg died in April after a long battle with cancer -- during which he still dedicated his life to the WVB program. This may have been discussed here already, but I just learned this today. Barry Goldberg founded and ran, with his wife ?Bonnie?, the Metro volleyball club in DC which produced nearly all the top college players from the DC region and hosted a gigantic annual tourney over President's Day weekend in the DC convention center.

Last time we played AU preseason was ~2017-18 IIRC. Barry, RR, and Rosen of MI looked like they could be brothers, and I think maybe they sorta were.