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in our 2023 run to the national championship, we had a server who, I believe, hit the knuckleball that was very difficult to pick up and return, resulting in a lot of aces....it was, for me, unreal to watch....we ended up going thru all the top seeds to win it all.  Don't remember her name., but it would be great to get her back for some serving sessions....she was really good.

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    Uh, the other thing being when Binney enters the match Spears sits on the bench. That's even bigger to me than replacing Swindle, and I love both Swindle and Kahahawai.  I think there's something

  • That's going to be a new McCombs graduate diving all over the floor in a few hours.    

  • If Vandy finishes off Cal (leads 2-0), the challenge will end in an 8-8 tie Texas, Bama, MSST and OU all had 5 set wins today   

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3 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

in our 2023 run to the national championship, we had a server who, I believe, hit the knuckleball that was very difficult to pick up and return, resulting in a lot of aces....it was, for me, unreal to watch....we ended up going thru all the top seeds to win it all.  Don't remember her name., but it would be great to get her back for some serving sessions....she was really good.

In our opening rounds of the NCAAT, we had 3 aces against aggy and 7 against SMU.  Emma went crazy with 4 against SMU

2 more against Tennessee and 5 against Stanford.  Madi and Asjia had 2 each against Stanford.

Then the real fun started - 11 against Wisconsin, including 6 by Madi, and 12 against Nebraska, with 5 from Asjia

And then the meme was born

Texas wins the 2023 DI women's volleyball national championship | NCAA.com

1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

So basically a knuckleball serve. That’s how I would always serve when I played volleyball, but I didn’t pay attention to where the valve was. A knuckleball serve seems to have the best accuracy to receiving difficulty ratio of any serve and I wish we utilized it more 

Yeah. Watching good float serves from the general perspective of the receiver is crazy. The ball shifts around in the air in an unpredictable way. 

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21 hours ago, Js1 said:

Part of me thinks they were trying to be more aggressive against an overmatched opponent.   We had 17 service errors against Bama, with 6 of them in the first set and then 11 over the next 3 sets.  We dialed it back a little to a more manageable 3.6 per set (still not great). We had 12 in a 5 setter against Tennessee (2.4 per set)

It's not like we forgot how to serve - we had 3 against Creighton (1 per set), 4 against Wisconsin (1.33 per set), 8 against Stanford (1.6 per set), 4 against Louisville (0.8 per set), 2 against ASU (.67 per set), 7 against TCU (2.33 per set), 6 against Baylor (2 per set).

Texas averages 1.94 serving errors per set, and our last 2 matches inflated that quite a bit (12 and 17).  Only 2 matches we have hit double digit serving errors - the last 2. 

Team service errors is not an NCAA stat, but just browsing some of the top 10: 

Nebraska - 2.01 (109 in 54 sets)
Texas - 1.94 (97 in 50 sets)
Louisville - 1.96 (114 in 58 sets)
Pitt - 2.55 (156 in 61 sets)
Kentucky - 2.5 (130 in 52 sets)
Stanford - 3.32  (196 in 59 sets)
Wisconsin - 2.88 (130 in 45 sets)
ASU - 2.71 (148 in 55 sets)

That makes sense, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a similar serving effort against Ark., hopefully with a little better results and progress being made.

As far as forgetting how to serve, I don't think that's an issue for this team.  I was mainly responding to SL's point about the importance of having a very strong serve to beat the elite teams.  Which I agree with, but there's a fine line of pushing the limits without causing too many service errors. Which can be a real momentum killer.  That's the tricky part. We'll see how far this team can push it.

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Also if anyone wants to see something hilarious:

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/46605009/ncaa-womens-college-volleyball-bracketology-top-teams-predictions-2025

Charlie Creme routinely fucks up his WBB bracketology (his literal main job at ESPN), so he attempted to do a Volleyball one.  But he didn't do a bracket, just seeded teams along the 1-16 lines. 

Calls Nebraska the "clear" #1 seed, despite Texas being #1 in RPI, RPI Futures and KPI.  He even mentions both RPI and KPI being out and used for his bracketology! Mentions their 10 top-50 RPI wins, as if Texas doesn't have 10 of their own! 

I think he just took the top 4 of the RPI and made them the top 4 seeds, but put Nebraska #1 and Texas #2.  Everything below that is garbage and the committee doesn't seed seed all 64 teams like that. 

He has Pitt and Louisville #3/#4, with Kentucky #5, despite the H2H win over Louisville.

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Sydney Helmers and ND take set over Pitt 

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SMU takes the opener over Louisville 

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Harvey serving instead of the serving sub 

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15-14 Texas at the media TO

ND up 2-0 on Pitt by identical 27-25 scores 

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17-14 Texas. Arky TO after a 5-0 run

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25-17 Texas. 
1-0

The double sub closed that shit out

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15-10 Texas

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18-11 Texas 

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Well Saltzman was wrong. We beat Wisconsin on the road. And have 2 more ranked wins at neutral sites (Creighton and Louisville)

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25-14 Texas

2-0

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Cari is playing messy today

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12-15 Arkansas

Media TO

Pretty sleepy set to this point. Gimme a dose of Devin. 

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18-20

TO Texas

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I will give Arky credit. Just digging the shit out of everything 

21-22 

TO Arky

Just now, Js1 said:

I will give Arky credit. Just digging the shit out of everything 

21-22 

TO Arky

Rooting 

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Here comes Texas

24-23. Match point 

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Sweep!

See you Sunday night for OU

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Pitt reverse swept ND and SMU took down Louisville at Louisville in 5

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Louisville was up 8-2 in the 5th too

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Louisville was up 8-2 in the 5th too

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They're having a similar type of season we did last year. Finding ways to lose

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Just now, perfectchaos007 said:

They're having a similar type of season we did last year. Finding ways to lose

Think they also had a huge lead in the 5th against Kentucky and blew that one too 

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PSU just lost set 1 to 8-8 UW, 25-11

Yuck

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20 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Penn State is trying to reverse sweep Washington. Currently in the 5th set

Huskies say no , hold on to win 

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Just now, perfectchaos007 said:

Washington hangs on and wins in 5

Former Nittany Lions Markley looked really good 

After that abomination of a football game last night, I'm even more eager than usual to see our volleyballers stomp a mudhole. The fact they get a chance to do it against OU is even better. 

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Top 16 is out! 

TCU 9, Creighton 10, Stanford 11, Wisconsin 12, Aggy 13, Indiana 14, PSU 15, Minny 16

Purdue 8, ASU 7, Louisville 6, SMU 5, Kentucky 4, Pitt 3, Texas 2, Nebraska 1 

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Nebraska 2 more wins than Texas and fewer 5 set matches is why they got #1

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Pitt takes down Louisville in 5

Babcock had 41 kills

Just now, TonyTexas said:

Pitt beats Louisville in 5. Nice road win. Babcock is a beast. 

Winning kill from the MB who got beaned in the back of the head on the prior serve lol 

After Babcock's freshman season I was thinking she needed to enter the portal and get to Austin. Unstoppable when as dialed in as she was today. Oh, well. 

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4 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

After Babcock's freshman season I was thinking she needed to enter the portal and get to Austin. Unstoppable when as dialed in as she was today. Oh, well. 

Her former teammate has worked out well for us! 

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Her former teammate has worked out well for us! 

No argument there.

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UK and Florida tied 1-1

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Gators up 2-1 on Kentucky

Byrd an inefficient 10 kills hitting .057

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Going 5 in Lexington 

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Florida ran out of gas. That offense is not very variable. It’s pretty left side heavy and basically no back row attack because Byrd can’t pass back there 

Ladies had to grind that one out, UF seemed to flip a switch 2nd set and kept UK off balance and discombobulated for most of the match. 

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