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Singletary on the slide. She and Ames will make losing O'Neal a lot easier to take. But two service errors already this set. 4-3 Texas. Singletary with the block. I love her game.

I am always amused by the high frequency of baldness among volleyball coaches.

Ok, a few things to note: Passing and setting was kind of ragged through the first third of that set, but it cleaned up pretty nicely after that. We had several serving errors, always a no-no. Rutherford on the weak side can make a big difference. There's no underestimating the value of strong left handed hitter on the otherwise known as opposite side. Wenaas looks a little stronger than she did early last year, but she's still a bit of a question mark on her ability to consistently get past a blocker. Skinner already looks in form to go back to back POY. Halter is a witch.

Wenaas with weak side cross court kill. 28-27 Texas. Long rally end with Wenaas blocked from back row. 28 all UW serve error. 29-28 Texas. UW freeball turned into Skinner crosscourt kill for the set. We overcame 3 UW set points to win that set after a shaky start.

Challenge by Texas. Ball did not hit floor as Rutherford got back of hand under it. Call overturned. Still 27 all.

Skinner served into net. 25-24 UW Singletary with a laser shot on the slide. 25 all UW hits long. 26-25 Texas. Same UW hitter goes crosscourt and in. 26 all. SKinner with a nuke from back row. 27-26 Texas. UW off block out of bounds. 27 all.

Halter with an NCAA tournament quality dig, but Texas passed ball over, and UW got the kill anyway. 24-22. SKinner dink blocked out of bounds. One set point survived. UW in net. 24-24. It was egregious. But setting Wenaas against Smrek might not be good odds for us.

UW returns Wenaas's hit into the net. 21-19. Wenaas serve long. 22-19. Rutherford had to dink, UW could only free ball back. Rutherford gets kill on next swing. 22-20. SKinner with kill. 22-21. Texas saved one by going nearly into the stands, but UW got kill after Texas freeball. 23-21. Rutherford kill. 23-22. I love havinng a lefthander on that side.

Ames hit from middle went wide. 20-18 Wenaas weak side went out. 21-18. Texas's second timeout.

Kind of an odd rotation to not have either Rutherford or Skinner on the front line. Skinner is a hell of a back row weapon, but I have to think she, Rutherford, and Singletary will be our best front row weapons. But Ames just ended UW's run with a strong hit off block on the slide. UW came back with a kill. 19-18 UW

Wisconsin kill followed by Ames getting blocked in the midde and Wenaas not clearing the tape. 17-17

A little different rotation than was the peak rotation last year. We spent most of year with Skinner, O'Neal, and Phillips on the front line when Halter was serving, and we would run of 5 or 6 points on her serve regularly. RIght now we have Swinder, Wenaas, and Ames on the front line with Halter serving. Skinner hitting from the back row.

Wenaas off block. 16-14 Texas. UW line shot wide. 17-14. UW second timeout. 8-1 Texas run.

Ace by Skinner. 13-13. UW strong side smash off block falls in. 14-13 UW Same hitter blocked by Singletary. 14-14 Halter ace 15-14 Texas. Timeout UW. Nice run.

Wenaas with strong cross court. 13-12

Swindle just caught Wiscy defense off guard with a dump, followed by a POY sort of smash from the backrow by Skinner. 13-11 UW

Offense off kilter right now. Poor ratio of hard swings to dinks so far.

Pretty good odds that would get us a spot in the SEC championship game. Here are the ranked conference opponents for the other 3 teams ranked in the top ten preseason. Alabama has 5 ranked conference opponents, 3 of those on the road, but it hosts Georgia which is the only top ten team among them. Georgia three top 6 opponents on the road and a home game against Tennessee. Ole Miss has a relatively easy schedule--hosting Georgia and OU and going to Baton Rouge for its only games against ranked conference opponents.

And we manage to get exposure without doing some stupid silly s*** in a football stadium.

Our collection of front line weapons is unreal.

He is already there.

Lunardi definitely elevates Mississippi State from the conference's third tier.

On every college campus and in every college town, the most overrated team in mid-August is the home team. That, and Notre Dame.

Predicting Tragic Scenarios is definitely a Disorder Seriously? We should lose sleep over hosting the team picked to finish in the Mountain West 5th by the coaches and 6th by the media?

Is this really the case? Iowa State had the most q1 wins and the best record in q1 games of the teams contending for the fourth 1 seed, and it was not only passed over for the last 1 seed, it was given the worst 2 seed, being forced into a region against overall #1 UConn. While you have listed teams that were seeded in the top 4 that had below average nonconference SOS, what about Purdue--9th Tennessee--19th UNC--35th Arizona--12th Marquette--23rd Creighton--67th Alabama--16th Baylor--93rd Kansas--62nd