#21 Creighton takes down #16 Marquette in 5 sets. That'll help the RPI.

(10-14-2022 09:49 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  #21 Creighton takes down #16 Marquette in 5 sets. That'll help the RPI.

They actually passed Rice up now.
Unofficial RPI (but pretty accurate): http://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi

McCardell has been playing at such a consistently high level all season long, I wonder if she was simply under the weather yesterday or fighting off the flu bug.

Unranked USC (14-4) beat #17 Oregon.
Unranked Utah (11-7) beat #15 Washington.
Unranked LMU (11-6) beat #20 Pepperdine.

(10-15-2022 10:45 AM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Unranked USC (14-4) beat #17 Oregon.
Unranked Utah (11-7) beat #15 Washington.
Unranked LMU (11-6) beat #20 Pepperdine.

USC was receiving votes and were in the Top 30. Skyler Fields went wild in that one-- 27 kills I believe.

UT is up on Baylor 2-1 and tied 11-11 in the 4th set. UT big advantage in digs and blocks.

Baylor managed to take one set from UT at home, but UT's defense is dominating Baylor's offense, and they're now pulling away in the 4th set to wrap up the match. UT has 13 more digs, 4 more blocks and is hitting .299 vs. .178 for Baylor. (Note-- Baylor hit close to .350 against us.)

Charlotte has played some quality matches, but relies far too much on one player. Emani Foster is 5th in the nation in kills/set (5.23), but no one else averages even 2 kills/set, and she takes 40% of the teams attacks. Hopefully, we can adjust our frontline defense to neutralize such an unbalanced attack. Charlotte comes into Tudor 8-10 overall (2-4 in conference, 2-4 on road). They won two straight (FIU, UTSA) after losing the previous 8 out of 9 matches. Their best wins were early against Virginia and Syracuse.

unranked Pacific (11-9, 3-5 in WCC) major upset over #12 BYU.

And in another major upset Elon (7-10) handed previously undefeated and #27th ranked Towson their first loss.