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Post by stillkicking on Apr 19, 2021 19:26:35 GMT -5
Damn, Wisconsin up 2-1
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Post by pennstate1973 on Apr 19, 2021 19:34:30 GMT -5
Texas looked really good against Nebraska. The Texas/Wisconsin match should be exciting. At this moment in time I consider these to be the two best teams in the country.
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Post by lionsfan on Apr 23, 2021 0:18:20 GMT -5
Yuck...what the heck was that, Wisconsin?!
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Post by nyline on Apr 23, 2021 7:57:19 GMT -5
Yuck...what the heck was that, Wisconsin?! For those who weren’t following at home (like me) here's a link to the boxscore of the "yuck": www.ncaa.com/game/5822816Hint: Dana Rettke hit .263 . . . with six kills . . . for the match. |
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Post by elliotberton on Apr 23, 2021 8:45:50 GMT -5
B10 Network (Michelle McMahon) blamed lack of preseason matches, saying Texas had just a little more chemistry. As we saw, Texas has some really good players and played (for them) uncharacteristically good defense.
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Post by pennstate1973 on Apr 23, 2021 8:58:08 GMT -5
Now the issue becomes which seniors are coming back in the fall. I would be surprised if Rettke doesn't try out for the Olympic team which means she may come back.
I read Nebraska's Strivins will probably go pro and Lexie Sun is also thinking about starting her pro career.
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Post by nyline on Apr 23, 2021 9:01:31 GMT -5
Now the issue becomes which seniors are coming back in the fall. I would be surprised if Rettke doesn't try out for the Olympic team which means she may come back. I read Nebraska's Strivins will probably go pro and Lexie Sun is also thinking about starting her pro career. Could Rettke (or any player) both go pro and try out for Olympics, or are logistics (or "amateur rules") such that she couldn't. |
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Post by lionsfan on Apr 23, 2021 10:27:28 GMT -5
I would just like to point out that Penn State scored more points off Texas than either Nebraska or Wisconsin...and came closet to taking a second set off them then the Huskers did. (Small victory, but whatever...)
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Post by nitneliun on Apr 23, 2021 19:57:04 GMT -5
Now the issue becomes which seniors are coming back in the fall. I would be surprised if Rettke doesn't try out for the Olympic team which means she may come back. I read Nebraska's Strivins will probably go pro and Lexie Sun is also thinking about starting her pro career. Could Rettke (or any player) both go pro and try out for Olympics, or are logistics (or "amateur rules") such that she couldn't. I have no idea what Rettke intends for her pro career, but it's a little late in the game to think about making this Olympic team. Karch has been putting the team together for years and it really hasn't included Rettke in any significant international competition. |
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Post by ethankasales on Apr 23, 2021 21:49:11 GMT -5
Speaking of the Olympics, I wonder what the odds are of Haleigh Washington making the team.
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Post by jojonito on Apr 24, 2021 17:22:14 GMT -5
Could Rettke (or any player) both go pro and try out for Olympics, or are logistics (or "amateur rules") such that she couldn't. I have no idea what Rettke intends for her pro career, but it's a little late in the game to think about making this Olympic team. Karch has been putting the team together for years and it really hasn't included Rettke in any significant international competition. I'm curious about other opinions of people who know volleyball better than me. It seems to me that Rettke isn't that good of a blocker. She does get a lot of blocks cuz of her height, but she seems to not have that well formed a block which allows hitters to hit thru her block. This reminds me of Haleigh Washington who had good block stats and great physical abilities, but didn't seem to read the opposing setter very well and so wasn't as good a blocker as she could have been. |
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Post by jojonito on Apr 24, 2021 17:23:30 GMT -5
I would just like to point out that Penn State scored more points off Texas than either Nebraska or Wisconsin...and came closet to taking a second set off them then the Huskers did. (Small victory, but whatever...) I was thinking the same thing, tho I didn't realize that PSU scored more points that either Neb or Wisc. A "moral victory" which RR doesn't believe in.  |
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Post by nitneliun on Apr 25, 2021 1:54:12 GMT -5
I have no idea what Rettke intends for her pro career, but it's a little late in the game to think about making this Olympic team. Karch has been putting the team together for years and it really hasn't included Rettke in any significant international competition. I'm curious about other opinions of people who know volleyball better than me. It seems to me that Rettke isn't that good of a blocker. She does get a lot of blocks cuz of her height, but she seems to not have that well formed a block which allows hitters to hit thru her block. This reminds me of Haleigh Washington who had good block stats and great physical abilities, but didn't seem to read the opposing setter very well and so wasn't as good a blocker as she could have been. I don't know how well Rettke reads the setter, but I do know she does not have quick feet. She's very much a vertical player, but not much of a horizontal player. Katie Slay was a bit like that. That's why you rarely either player score on the slide. Ari Wilson had quick feet and good lateral movement, so she was a middle who made her living on the slide play. |
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Post by nyline on Apr 25, 2021 6:04:49 GMT -5
Let me state, about states:Who would have thought that, in the Sweet 16, we'd have at least 2 teams each from Pennsylvania
Texas
Kentucky (which got 3)
... and not California. In fact, despite all the shade thrown about UCLA not getting a seed, no CA teams remain. Pepperdine made it interesting w/ a 5-setter v Baylor, but couldn't finish. Wonder how long it has been since no. CA. team. made the final 16. Karch, please elucidate. Seeding would have given us 2 from Utah, but the Utes ran into the Pitt buzzsaw, getting blanked. Seeding also would have given us 2 from WA, but WASt fell to WKY in a 5-setter. So fates of teams (or, might we say strength of WVB) in states east v. west of the Mississippi: in KY and PA rose, while WA and CA and UT receded. This takes me back to 2007 when ESPN's Karch seemed not to have bothered to learn the names of the PSU players while he could go on (and on) IIRC about the goggles that one Stanford player wore. I had the feeling then that the commentariat believed that WVB sorta stopped at the Mississippi, if not well west of it. Today, I think I counted 9 teams east of the Mississippi and another 4 east of or in the Great Plains still alive (UT, OR, WA filling out the slate). Of course, this is but a snapshot. In a year that will be marked w/an asterisk by all but the winner. And that winner is . . . Kentucky. Goodbye, HuskerFest. |
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Post by nyline on Apr 25, 2021 8:56:44 GMT -5
OK, not goodbye yet. I found this to be interesting (particularly in light of all the posts about Gabby Blossom):
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