I think have to credit the staff and players, because we gave Texas different looks it seemed almost every point, different serving styles, location, running Kennedy at the middle, moving her around, at the pin
Glenn's hitting stats were only poor because she got caught on the left side for a short stretch and had difficultly, which is not her best location hitting wise. Still Glenn was a huge part defensively for that first set and a couple kills. Hayes is simply not a player probably to ahve out there for an entire match, but she hits heavy, hits a heavy spin serve, so likely will see that change occur a lot.
as bad as Texas looked, have to take some credit for keeping them out of sync, especially they rarely could get their middles since their setter was off the net.
LMU I expect will receive a lot better so definitely expect a tough match, even beating Texas would still say basically we are the underdog vs. LMU Previous Message
One match at a time. LMU has received votes in the coaches poll. It will be another difficult match. Not to take away from last night’s incredible win and experience incentives. Kudos to the student section. Kudos to Maura coming with some impressive kills. Kudos to Lesiak for having a nice match. Kudos to Tyler for being very actively engaged on the sideline and supportive/instructive of all as they would leave the court in substitute. And kudos to Algi coming in late in set 4 and hammering two kills. Previous Message
Yes, that’s why I said that it seems that those teams are not that strong this year, and perhaps the strong scheduling will work out better than expected. Omaha was one of the weakest teams scheduled (Creighton is the strongest team after Nebraska in that region). Indiana is in the bottom third of the B1G, and also seems winnable. Previous Message
Washington, UCLA, Arizona all lost today, Arizona to UC Davis and lost twice, and Omaha expected to be good also lost.
but it's early, one day. Texas will probably have trouble with LMU if they can't pass any better. Previous Message
It’s a very ambitious non-conference schedule. I was concerned that it might be too ambitious, but this win is a marquee win that the program hasn’t experienced in a very, very long time. It also looks like some of the other teams on the schedule-Washington, UCLA, Arizona-are not as strong this year. The team record (and RPI) going into conference play might actually be quite good. Previous Message
Serving and Passing was spot on tonight to equalize any advantage Texas had at the net
jittery to start as well, down 8-3 in first set, and then just grinded,
Liask (sic) after a horrid Pepperdine was solid
really nice to see the passing of all, but especially how in sync Chacon, HOff, and Giambi were back there - Beach got better middle looks than the Steers
every player played well for stretches,
Agi coming in cold and under pressure with a BIG TIME down the line shot towards the end
gotta love Hayes serve, seems like she jumps about 2 inches but who cares, she's a cool cucumber
what a team!!
3579, wow, that's big time
all the starters upped it from the Pepperdine exhibition with really solid play to grind back that key 1st set win,
a win and mojo that hasn't been there since the 2014 season - great start to the season for the students
now the hard work starts, other teams are gonna grind a bit better than Texas.
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