Hi volleyball fans and welcome to the inaugural episode of Volley Talk, the podcast created
for volleyball lovers who want to dig deep into what is going on in NCAA and international
volleyball.
I am your host Sarah Pavin, a two-time Olympian, beach volleyball world champion, and a long-time
professional indoor player.
I was an NCAA champion with the University of Nebraska and represented Canada internationally
both indoor and on the beach for over 20 years.
My co-host is none other than my husband Adam Schultz who is equally immersed in the volleyball
world albeit in a different way than me.
Hey everyone, my name is Adam.
I played collegially at McMaster University in Canada and then went on into the coaching
world at the university level.
I was a statistician for the Canadian national team both indoor and on the beach and as
well for several professional teams around the world.
For the last decade I have been coaching on the beach but at the international and AVP
levels.
Adam and I love talking about volleyball and we wanted to create this podcast to share
our knowledge and opinions with people who are volleyball junkies like we are.
On Volley Talk we'll be bringing you weekly highlights from the world of NCAA and international
volleyball as well as sharing our insights on feature matches and sharing some hot takes.
So without any further ado let's get started.
It was a pretty big week in NCAA volleyball.
We're going to talk about some particularly spicy matches in a bit but Utah had a really
solid performance this week.
They were unranked going into the week but they took down number 17 TCU and number 18
Baylor 3-0 in both matches.
The outside hitter Cameron Gabadlo had a particularly strong weekend as she led the Utes in scoring
in both matches.
It's interesting to see Utah, sometimes you'll have an unranked team have a really good match
and beat a ranked team but here they beat two back to back 3-0.
That doesn't happen by accident against two different teams.
I think the big thing for me looking at the stats was Utah hit 248 versus TCU's 167 and
against Baylor they were 391 against their team 202.
So not only did they attack well but they managed to keep the opposing teams efficiencies
down pretty low and that's hard to do against ranked teams.
Awesome game but the whole team did it.
It's impressive to see and I mean the 248 is nothing to roll your eyes at either.
I'm curious to see if they can keep those statistics going week after week.
They're going to be really successful if they can.
Now I didn't see the Utah-Baylor match but when I see numbers like that I'm kind of like
either the Baylor defense was absolutely tragic or Utah was just unconscious.
But you have to think they were in system all match.
So there must have been either they passed really well or there was no serving pressure.
That's absolutely unbelievable.
I feel like Utah is going to have to be ranked coming into this week with a performance like
that but we'll see.
Texas is also continuing their dominance in the SEC after losing three during the preseason.
I mean they do have a pretty tough schedule.
They did drop one to Miami but like not probably not the start that they wanted for the season
but in the SEC play they're now 5-0 and they handled Kentucky three straight as well.
I think the story there is Texas out blocked them 14-7 and they held Kentucky to 0-89 hitting
percentage as a team.
So you're out blocking them serving really well because you must have double blocks on
their pin hitters all the time.
That's an impressive stat line against the Kentucky team that was recently in the final
four.
And it was a 7 versus 12 matchup.
So I mean I know it's not like a 1-2 matchup where you're expecting like big things five
set barn burner but like 7-12 matchup that is.
You're talking about top 10 teams in the country like that game should be a banger.
Like the sets there was only one set I think that Kentucky cracked 20 points.
Yeah that's I mean that just shouldn't happen for Texas to come in there and be that dominant.
That's impressive.
Kentucky transfer Reagan Rutherford now plays for Texas.
She had a great game.
You got to love going back to your old barn and just lighting it up.
She was 10-16 she hit 4-38.
So I mean we're not saying anything definitively here but I mean.
Little extra motivation.
You never like to lose to your old team so maybe a little extra motivation.
Freshman Aiden Ames who was the Nebraska commit decommitted and decided to go to Texas instead
she went 6-for-10.
So that was a good performance by the freshman for Texas.
Around the rest of the league Florida lost a tough one to unranked South Carolina 3-0.
And on the west coast Big Ten action saw a real mix up.
Oregon beat USC 3-0.
UCLA over Washington 3-1.
And then UCLA lost to USC in a tight intercity rival 3-2.
They're just trading wins and losses here.
The new Big Ten additions you know they're just keeping things spicy.
They're mixing it up.
They're like win loss win loss.
They're just doing their own thing over on the west coast here.
I'm going to be really curious to see them travel and play some of the standard Big Ten
teams.
I mean UCLA started Big Ten play against Nebraska lost to them in four in Lincoln.
I mean it's going to be an adjustment.
The Pac-10 was no slouch but it also was not the Big Ten.
I mean the Big Ten is for sure the standard.
The gold standard as far as NCAA volleyball is concerned.
So I mean it is going to be an adjustment but we'll see how it plays out.
And just out of curiosity how much do you think the travel plays into their ability
to perform or them not being used to it because they're I mean they're traveling like a pro
team at this point.
I think it's actually insane.
I am very opinionated about this.
I understand that it is great for the league.
We can probably dive into this in another day but like do these girls go to school anymore?
That's what I want to know.
Like how are they managing this?
And I guarantee like not all of these teams fly private.
There are some teams that definitely do but a lot of these schools are still flying commercial.
So like what happened to an education?
We will dive into this deeper on another episode because like this is something I'm very passionate
about but yeah I digress.
To finish off our weekly roundup Louisville squeaked out a five set win over Florida State
but the games everybody's been talking about.
Our feature matches for the week are Pitt versus SMU and Nebraska versus Purdue.
It was an interesting week with Pitt and SMU.
They played each other basically back to back.
So in Pittsburgh Pitt won 3-0 on Wednesday night and then they turned around and played
each other again on Saturday and the I think the moment the NCAA was waiting for was Pitt
losing in five.
It was wild.
After having only dropped one set all season.
Yeah.
But I honestly I don't think this is a bad thing for Pitt.
I think having an undefeated season where you're not really pushed is tough to maintain
all season long.
I'm guessing this is going to be a little bit of a tune up.
Go back watch some video figure out what you did wrong.
Having some nerves and being unsure of how to push back when teams have you on the ropes.
And I think that we will get into this but my thoughts on their setter and how she progressed
throughout the match I think was a big one for me.
I honestly don't hate that they lost.
Speaking from personal experience playing at Nebraska the years that I was there we
were ranked like number one number two ish around there in the country like every season.
And when a when you're at the top people are just gunning for you.
So it is very hard to stay there.
But it's really hard to maintain that consistency for four months.
You know what I'm saying.
So I don't hate that they lost every year that I played in Nebraska.
We the years that we did best we had just like a head scratching loss.
And not to say that SMU is a head scratcher like they were ranked 15 this week.
They are a good team for sure.
But I think that this can give them renewed motivation really bring them down to earth
to be like okay we're not invincible here we have some things that we need to work on
and I think it'll make them or I hope it'll make them come back stronger.
So this was the first time that I had watched SMU play.
And a couple of things that I was impressed with.
I thought their left side Shemei had a really great match.
She had 20 kills and hit two eight nine.
And I thought yeah I thought she was a real driving force for that team along with middle
blocker Okimor.
They whenever they were together in the front row they made life really difficult for Pitt.
They scored a bunch of block points and just seemed to build momentum for their team when
they were on the floor.
I thought their coach did some made some great adjustments later in the match which we can
talk about after.
But I was also really impressed with Foster's serving.
She put them in a lot of trouble with her hybrid serve.
Okay you literally mentioned the three players from SMU that I wanted to talk about so I
am glad that we're on the same page.
You know I like when we disagree because then things get extra spicy and I love debating
these things with you.
But you know we'll start out smooth for episode one and we can agree on this.
I think those three players Foster the thing I like most about her was her serve.
Loved the hybrid.
She put Pitt in a lot of server save trouble and I just I love how aggressive it is.
It's definitely a weapon.
Okimor and Shemei were the stars for me.
But I also do think that Purdue not the school the player everybody.
She deserves some props as well.
She has seen like seriously limited action this season.
But she came in and she scored some big points when she needed to and she really made a difference
down the stretch for SMU.
So I just wanted to give her a shout out but Okimor and Shemei like blocking clinic by
Okimor.
Especially late in the match.
It was wild.
So here's a question for you.
How much of an effect do you think SMU being mostly graduate students plays in their ability
to win these tight matches?
Ok thank you for saying that because I definitely think that this is worth mentioning.
Every single starter on SMU is a graduate student.
There's something to be said for having that much experience.
I don't want to take away from them.
Like obviously this is the team that they have on the floor.
This is the team that they've been training whatever but like seven graduate students
like there's not I'm curious to see if this program has any type of longevity because
they collected so many players from the transfer portal and all of them are going to be gone
next year.
But conversely when we started watching the match I was like I recognize all these players
from Pitt.
And there are a couple grad students there you know but they stayed.
They did their undergrad at Pitt.
They stayed at Pitt.
I have so much respect for that.
I believe in where you choose to go unless something is crazy like you see it through.
I am old school.
I am a purist in that way so I loved seeing Pitt's lineup look virtually the same as it
was last season.
I do want to say Tori Stafford for me was the standout player for Pitt.
I also love their attitude.
I love a stuff and stare.
Like when you get that block make them feel it.
And I definitely was like giggling seeing Stafford and Jones do that a few times when
they were blocking.
But yes I think going back to your question I think the grad student aspect needed to
be said.
It needed to be said.
I also you liked Fairbanks for approximately 50 percent of the match and then you were
like absolutely not.
So watching her set the first three sets I thought she did an incredible job of moving
the ball around of balancing the offense of getting her hitters you know one on ones one
on one and a halfs and just making SMU middles work to close blocks.
And I was I thought she I thought she did a fantastic job.
However and then moving into the fourth and fifth set I think she set the middles maybe
three times don't quote me on that.
I don't have the stats in front of me but it wasn't a lot.
And you could see Okamor just looking at her and knowing exactly where she was going to
put the ball and they made life for Babcock miserable in those fourth and fifth sets.
And not only did they know where it was going Fairbanks sets were a little all over the
map some of them were inside some of them were flaring off the net.
And I mean Babcock is a player of the year I believe.
Player of the year candidate.
She's a sophomore.
You know you've got to find a way to score as your top hitter on the team.
But Fairbanks definitely didn't put her in a good position late in the match.
And I'm curious if that was only because of the passing or if again like I said before
they're being applied with some pressure from SMU and she's like I'm just going to set our
best hitter I'm just going to set our best hitter.
And she kind of lost confidence in her offense to get the job done.
I'll be curious to see how she bounces back after this.
It was honestly hard to watch.
It was you could tell that she was just so desperate for Stafford and Babcock to put
the ball away and it was so hard to watch because you're like set the middle and it's
just like okay you have the experience you've played in a couple final fours like how is
this happening?
I completely agree with what you're saying about the Babcock situation.
She just like fell off a cliff at the end of set four and just could not find herself
again.
If you are a national player of the year candidate you need to find ways to score.
And I'm not saying like we're not talking small errors here.
We're talking absolutely getting stuff blocked multiple times in a row or hitting it out
like into the bleachers.
These things weren't even close.
So I was really disappointed to see that response.
I don't disagree with you.
The balls that Fairbanks was putting up for her were tough.
She was getting killed inside when she was hitting from the back row those balls were
being led way too far for her.
But still the best players find a way and she did not.
I understand you're not going to play great every game.
Every player has matches that they don't play amazing.
Been there I get it.
I understand.
But this this looked particularly bad and honestly Tori Stafford kind of was the only
one that held it together there for Pitt.
But you mentioned that and so I thought something that was really interesting I had to give
props to the SMU coach.
So in the fourth set they had Okimor lined up on Babcock to try and slow her down.
And side note I thought Shemei did a fantastic job of adjusting her block lineup when the
set started going inconsistent and they made her life miserable and Stafford was the only
one scoring.
And then in the fifth set their coach takes a bit of a flyer and lines Babcock up on Stafford
to make her life miserable assuming or hoping that Babcock wasn't going to find her rhythm
and be able to score and they made life miserable for Stafford in that fifth set.
And I thought that was a really ballsy move by the coach that paid off.
And when you're playing the number one team in the country sometimes you got to take those
gambles and her players delivered on that strategy and I thought that was really cool.
I 100% agree that was a ballsy tactical decision but she rolled those dice and baby you were.
I mean Babcock did not recover after set four.
But I think the thing that the tactical shift that really set everything in motion for the
demise of Pitt in that match was in the middle of set four we saw some huge momentum shifts
early like real bad both ways.
And then at 15-15 the libero for SMU went back to serve Pitt was in rotation five so
Stafford was passing on the left the middle Kelly was in the on the left side as well
so they were stacked and there were two incredibly executed short serves to zone four the middle
had to take them but Stafford kind of got held up because she was in her approach line
and they just SMU just sent two blockers right over to bad Babcock and got two massive stuff
blocks and that kind of wrote the story there for the rest of the match.
So I thought that kind of set the tone and was an amazing tactical shift but then the
lineup switch in set five kind of sealed the deal.
Honestly SMU played steady when it counted they did not look great for a lot of the match
but Hardemy says Pitt lost.
Oh interesting I mean I think if if Fairbanks continues to put up consistent hittable balls
yeah I mean a lot of things probably would have had to go their way it seems like they
had a couple players who normally are solid have not great last two sets and they're the
number one team I mean they can probably be most teams that's fair.
Well entertaining match to watch but I leave that match with the big question of who is
going to draw SMU come tournament time.
They're going to ruin somebody's bracket.
A hundred percent you know that those top seeds are just like crossing their fingers
that SMU is not in their regional because they upset Nebraska early this season then
they upset Pitt like they are capable of disrupting things for teams.
Do I think that they have what it takes to be consistently a top four program right now?
No absolutely not but they have shown that they can show up when it matters so.
I want to see I want to see them against two or three more ranked teams and put that same
performance on the floor.
They had they played well not going to take anything away from them but you got to do
it again and then you got to do it one more time.
That's what the best teams do.
Our second feature match this week was Nebraska versus Purdue.
Of course it had to be Nebraska we couldn't start this podcast and not watch Nebraska
match.
Go Big Red.
No I'm just kidding.
I will you know what I will probably end up being more critical of Nebraska than other
teams so it's like when you're coaching your own kid not that I have kids but I have heard
and from experience.
And honestly you're more critical of me than anybody else.
So I've heard that you're more critical of your own kid when you're a coach.
So why would this be any different?
We have seen Purdue play several times this year.
We saw them play Penn State they were absolutely terrible.
I didn't think they were going to win a single match after watching that game.
That was hard to watch.
Then we saw them pick it up against Minnesota.
So they've clearly you know righted the ship so to say.
But this was a tight one.
Three to two victory for Nebraska in Lincoln and we went overtime in set five.
It was a lot of fun to watch.
It was really back and forth and it left me with a lot of questions.
Oh me too.
I need to start that before I get into the critiques I need to give a shout out to Andy
Jackson.
I am so impressed with this girl.
She started the match going 11 for 12.
11 for 12.
That is insane.
She had a little bit of a dip part way through set three and into set four but she righted
herself again.
But aside from the numbers she makes life so easy for her outside hitters because teams
respect her.
They have to respect her.
I loved how much work she puts in.
She's running slides.
She's putting up blocks.
She's available in almost every transition set running all over the place.
That girl puts in work and it was great to see.
She was my favorite player to watch.
100%.
And she's got a little toot on her too.
Which you love.
I love it.
Give me a little attitude.
Give me a little fire, a little sass.
So before we get into the other takes I had a question or a thought watching that Nebraska
game in that I don't know that they have anybody with killer instinct.
And I watched Jackson play and I thought there's their player who knows how to win.
Who's going to push who wants the ball at the end of the match and who will score points
for you.
But you need one other player other than a middle to also be that way.
Beeson's not bad.
She's steady and she's really skilled.
But you don't see that fire from her.
And I'm curious if they're going to be able to step up when they're playing top, top teams.
It's interesting you say that about Beeson because I do think that she could be that
player for them.
So this kind of leads into one of my hot takes and critiques of the Nebraska team right now
is I think she's a little bit unsure of what her role is.
Sometimes you know she'll serve and then get taken out.
Sometimes she won't even get to serve and then we'll get thrown in if a rotation can't
score.
Sometimes she'll get to stay in the back.
I don't think she knows what she is going to be doing but I think that she needs to
play six rotations.
Well it almost seemed like they didn't want to leave her in the back row but their left
sides in two of those rotations couldn't score.
They couldn't get out of that rotation so they had to put her in to run the pipe.
I think if she's given the opportunity to just be a true right side and just bang on
balls for six rotations, be an outlet when things are going sideways, I think you will
start to see a little more of that swagger and that attitude from her because you did
see a bit of it last season when she was playing six rotations but now she's kind of back and
forth in the back row and I personally think that's a mistake.
Especially because when she is serving you've got Krausey, Alec and the setter Bergen Reilly
in the front row.
That is in my opinion a liability.
There's no offense there.
I don't think I saw Rebecca hit a clean ball all match.
No that's not true.
She hit one good snap back to position one and the rest of them were paintbrushes and
kind of miss hits and she was relatively effective but you're not blocking those balls so you
can just vacate and hang out on the left side and the setter doesn't get that involved in
the offense most of the time.
It's a tough rotation and Beeson is going to need to be that player for them to be successful.
I 100% agree.
I don't think Lindsey Krausey is terminal enough to counteract Rebecca Alec's lack of
production offensively.
You can just see Perdue does not respect her at all.
It was like night and day when Alec was in the front row versus Jackson.
Alec they don't even care because she's not making contact with the ball it's just like
okay let's just try to react to it like it's a paintbrush.
Jackson however anytime there was a possibility that she could get the ball the outsides were
one on one.
Anytime and so I am so confused as to Nebraska's choice of lineup because you have your lowest
producing middle offensively in the front row with Lindsey Krausey who I'm sorry is
not the most terminal outside.
So I don't know my hot take is they need to switch the rotation and Merritt Beeson needs
to stay in the back row to give them a chance because they Perdue when they were down they
made their comebacks and they made their runs in that rotation when Bergen Riley was in
rotation position four.
I did think it was a good call to bring in Taylor Landfair though because at one point
Krausey was two kills two errors and 14 swings and then luckily she had a great server go
back and she was able to pad her stat line by hitting some overpasses but like you can't
you can't score points because your servers did a great job.
Well I think Landfair didn't Landfair didn't start well but she was able to kind of find
a rhythm as the match went on and score and that was one of the reasons why I think they
pulled this off in five sets.
She did make some big swings in the fifth set for sure.
Speaking of the fifth set a couple thoughts one is for Purdue I understand you had to
serve tough because Nebraska is such a great ball control team but they gave up four service
errors on the first seven Nebraska points.
When the match is in the fifth set you've got to find you got to do a better job at
finding that bounce if you're the third server to go back there and miss you've got to be
thinking I got a I got to stir strategically I'm going to take away an option with a location
serve versus just trying to bomb out of the ball.
They didn't have to they didn't put Nebraska under any pressure at the beginning of that
fifth set and then on top of that they get a free ball at 10-8 or 10-7 off a great serve
and they weren't they did nothing with it they gave a free ball back are you kidding
me you need to ram that ball down their throats if you get a free ball in the fifth set in
double digits we're talking 11-8 instead of 10-9 going into the end of that set which
you lose by two points at the end somebody is doing towel runs or something for that
play because you essentially lost the game there in my opinion.
That was ridiculous and I am a Nebraska fan okay I love Nebraska but even I was screaming
at the TV when Purdue returned a free ball with a free ball I was like what how does
this happen literally that all things being said if you like taking everything away if
you want to find one play that messed things up for Purdue this match it was that one yeah
especially in a fifth set to go up three points instead of one give me a break I 100% agree
with you on the serving issues though they missed 19 serves in that match you almost
handed Nebraska an entire full set missing serves and I'm sorry but it's not like you
guys were like crushing them well they didn't they didn't get very many aces but the thing
for me is you need to serve tactically so if Jackson's in the front row and you're not
getting stops anyway go back to the baseline and rip it you miss you miss they're siding
out at 700 in those three rotations but when when she's not in the front row and you've
got Raven blocking who did a fantastic job in that match you've got to put the ball in
you've got to score your points there and I it just seemed they had the we're going
to serve aggressive no matter what mentality which again I love that for a team and you
need to find it but you also need to understand where you are where your strengths are and
when you're going to take those risks and that was something I didn't think they did
very well but it was really hard to watch and like I said we've seen them play a few
times this season and I have noted it's been a pattern their serving has been absolutely
atrocious in every match we've watched so they need to figure it out because they're
clearly good they're good enough they're pushing good teams but like they need to get it together
shout out to Eva Hudson and Chloe Chacon for having great matches in that match offensively
they held the team together they both hit really well Hudson 349 Chacon 327 am I pronouncing
that right Chacon but I think everybody knows people know who you mean and the one thing
I will say for Purdue I hope they take some time this week and work on it Raven blocked
incredibly well yes but she could not find a rhythm with her setter it she she's so athletic
she jumps so well they need to find her and they need her to be an offensive threat as
well as a defensive stalwart because she did a great job at that good word so hopefully
hopefully she can find that because she could be a dominant player for them yeah I 100%
agree the the left sides for Purdue definitely carried the weight for the team and Raven
Colvin I mean her blocking was incredible it was a fun match to watch there I mean I
think you can tell listening to us a lot of frustration and a lot of questions for both
sides so I'll be curious to see both of those teams play a few more ranked opponents which
is coming up I mean that that conference is so stacked so we're gonna see some more games
and we're gonna see who steps up and and what other patterns continue from those two so
in watching NCAA volleyball this season there is a pattern that I've noticed and it's been
bothering me and I just need to talk about it for all of you just to be aware we're entering
Sarah's hot takes portion of the show I don't even know if it's a hot take because it's
like can you disagree with this okay maybe you can every team is doing it they're all
gonna disagree with you hear me out hear me out okay so something I've noticed obviously
offenses have gotten very fast and you know for a right side blocker who has to help in
the middle and then get outside it's it's tough when the ball is coming that fast to
the hitter it is hard to cover everything and so I've noticed that a lot of right side
blockers have been leaving a lot of line when the hitters hitting totally fine I get it
the part I don't get is the diggers in zone one have been coming up for tips so frequently
and getting absolutely blasted it's like I don't know if this is a game plan decision
I don't know if it's just a lack of awareness thing but it's like if the offense is being
run that fast and you know that the blocker is not going to get the line you need to be
back digging the line like I are you so preoccupied with the tip that like that is happening if
the tip is that big of an issue you don't see that many hitters coming up and hitting
the ball angle in front of the 10-foot line have the off blocker just worry about the
tip or read and react but why is everybody coming under for tips when they should be
digging the line what two thoughts one I don't know if you saw it but Lanfar was digging
tips in the front row and still did not get it in fact I believe the libero got a better
hand on a few of those tips coming from the back corner of the court than Lanfar so some
of our left sides are maybe not as engaged in defense as they should be so that's one
and the second one is I'm wondering if they're looking at the consistency of the setters
and saying you're not getting the ball all the way out to the pin when you're running
that fast so on the three or four balls where you do and they annihilate the line we're
going to give you those ones but we're assuming we're going to get a block touch or you're
not going to be able to hit that shot for you know 90 percent of the hitter setter combos
now you played internationally where the setters deliver that ball more consistently maybe
that's the disconnect but those are the only two things that I can think of because I agree
with you on principle well and I mean I was a hitter who was like I'm gonna hit angle
and then sharper angle and then sharper angle but even for me it's like if I saw that much
line available I'm gonna hit it you also played with some incredible setters shout out to
the setters I played with you really were great yeah so that I've just been it's been
happening with a variety of teams I've been watching play with a variety of players on
those teams and it's just like how is this happening so that is that is my big concern
for the week and something that has just been like frustrating me I don't know that I have
a hot take for this week but something that I've noticed that I really am glad to see
is the amount of back row attacks that we're starting to see in the NCAA I remember watching
you know maybe four or five years ago and they were all defensive players in the back
row and there's nothing wrong with that but there was just no offense coming out of the
back row and now we're starting to see Babcock's hitting out of the back row we're starting
to see Harper Murray hitting out of the back row every team has someone coming out of the
back row now and not only that they're running it well they're leading those hitters into
the front row you're starting to see some no blocks coming out of the middle on those
ones and it's it's really good and coming from more of the international game versus
the college game where that's you know a staple of the offense it's really good to see and
I think bodes well for the future of USA volleyball because these athletes are part of the offense
in the back row and playing those six rotations I mean as somebody who made a career hitting
back row arguably I was better hitting from the background on the front I love to see
it I love to see it I love that they are leading these hitters you're seeing these girls land
on the the center line of the court that is how it needs to be run ladies and gentlemen
I love it and it has really broken my heart in recent years to see it used more as an
emergency type of play or a like a get out of trouble play than an integrated part of
the offense so I am all about that and as we continue here you will for sure notice
the Adam will probably always have the positive takes and I will be critical okay so we'll
see we'll see get ready for that yeah those were our little tidbits that we wanted to
talk about but this week coming up has got some big matches that I'm excited to see so
on Friday I'm really looking forward to the Oregon and Wisconsin match I think that you're
gonna have two big teams going at it I don't even know what my prediction for that match
will be well this past week I think they were 9 and 11 in the ranking and I'm pretty sure
they're in Wisconsin don't quote me on that I could be wrong if they're in Wisconsin I'm
gonna say Wisconsin in four I don't I can't I can't make a prediction on that match it's
too close and then on Sunday I'm looking forward to the Minnesota Penn State match Penn State
number three I think I'm gonna I think Penn State will win I'm gonna say also in four
I think that one's gonna go to five love a five setter Stanford also has a big week coming
up on Wednesday they're in Dallas taking on SMU and on Sunday they've got pit so it is
a heavy week for Stanford so I think the Stanford pick game is going to be a fantastic match
just in general I'm actually really curious to see SMU take on Stanford I want to I want
to see the same thing I want to see them push those ranked teams I want to see the product
that they put on the court this past week continue for another week not just a blip
of hey we played really great volleyball this weekend yeah I don't want to see them satisfied
for sure yeah so yeah lots of good games coming up we are really excited that concludes this
week's episode of volley talk there's always something happening in the volleyball world
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