#1 Pitt Falls to SMU, Beason Needs to Play 6 Rotations for Nebraska

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Hi volleyball fans and welcome to the inaugural episode of Volley Talk, the podcast created

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for volleyball lovers who want to dig deep into what is going on in NCAA and international

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volleyball.

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I am your host Sarah Pavin, a two-time Olympian, beach volleyball world champion, and a long-time

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professional indoor player.

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I was an NCAA champion with the University of Nebraska and represented Canada internationally

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both indoor and on the beach for over 20 years.

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My co-host is none other than my husband Adam Schultz who is equally immersed in the volleyball

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world albeit in a different way than me.

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Hey everyone, my name is Adam.

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I played collegially at McMaster University in Canada and then went on into the coaching

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world at the university level.

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I was a statistician for the Canadian national team both indoor and on the beach and as

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well for several professional teams around the world.

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For the last decade I have been coaching on the beach but at the international and AVP

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levels.

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Adam and I love talking about volleyball and we wanted to create this podcast to share

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our knowledge and opinions with people who are volleyball junkies like we are.

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On Volley Talk we'll be bringing you weekly highlights from the world of NCAA and international

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volleyball as well as sharing our insights on feature matches and sharing some hot takes.

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So without any further ado let's get started.

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It was a pretty big week in NCAA volleyball.

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We're going to talk about some particularly spicy matches in a bit but Utah had a really

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solid performance this week.

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They were unranked going into the week but they took down number 17 TCU and number 18

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Baylor 3-0 in both matches.

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The outside hitter Cameron Gabadlo had a particularly strong weekend as she led the Utes in scoring

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in both matches.

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It's interesting to see Utah, sometimes you'll have an unranked team have a really good match

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and beat a ranked team but here they beat two back to back 3-0.

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That doesn't happen by accident against two different teams.

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I think the big thing for me looking at the stats was Utah hit 248 versus TCU's 167 and

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against Baylor they were 391 against their team 202.

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So not only did they attack well but they managed to keep the opposing teams efficiencies

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down pretty low and that's hard to do against ranked teams.

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Awesome game but the whole team did it.

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It's impressive to see and I mean the 248 is nothing to roll your eyes at either.

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I'm curious to see if they can keep those statistics going week after week.

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They're going to be really successful if they can.

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Now I didn't see the Utah-Baylor match but when I see numbers like that I'm kind of like

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either the Baylor defense was absolutely tragic or Utah was just unconscious.

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But you have to think they were in system all match.

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So there must have been either they passed really well or there was no serving pressure.

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That's absolutely unbelievable.

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I feel like Utah is going to have to be ranked coming into this week with a performance like

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that but we'll see.

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Texas is also continuing their dominance in the SEC after losing three during the preseason.

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I mean they do have a pretty tough schedule.

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They did drop one to Miami but like not probably not the start that they wanted for the season

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but in the SEC play they're now 5-0 and they handled Kentucky three straight as well.

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I think the story there is Texas out blocked them 14-7 and they held Kentucky to 0-89 hitting

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percentage as a team.

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So you're out blocking them serving really well because you must have double blocks on

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their pin hitters all the time.

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That's an impressive stat line against the Kentucky team that was recently in the final

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four.

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And it was a 7 versus 12 matchup.

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So I mean I know it's not like a 1-2 matchup where you're expecting like big things five

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set barn burner but like 7-12 matchup that is.

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You're talking about top 10 teams in the country like that game should be a banger.

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Like the sets there was only one set I think that Kentucky cracked 20 points.

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Yeah that's I mean that just shouldn't happen for Texas to come in there and be that dominant.

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That's impressive.

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Kentucky transfer Reagan Rutherford now plays for Texas.

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She had a great game.

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You got to love going back to your old barn and just lighting it up.

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She was 10-16 she hit 4-38.

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So I mean we're not saying anything definitively here but I mean.

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Little extra motivation.

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You never like to lose to your old team so maybe a little extra motivation.

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Freshman Aiden Ames who was the Nebraska commit decommitted and decided to go to Texas instead

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she went 6-for-10.

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So that was a good performance by the freshman for Texas.

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Around the rest of the league Florida lost a tough one to unranked South Carolina 3-0.

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And on the west coast Big Ten action saw a real mix up.

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Oregon beat USC 3-0.

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UCLA over Washington 3-1.

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And then UCLA lost to USC in a tight intercity rival 3-2.

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They're just trading wins and losses here.

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The new Big Ten additions you know they're just keeping things spicy.

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They're mixing it up.

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They're like win loss win loss.

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They're just doing their own thing over on the west coast here.

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I'm going to be really curious to see them travel and play some of the standard Big Ten

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teams.

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I mean UCLA started Big Ten play against Nebraska lost to them in four in Lincoln.

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I mean it's going to be an adjustment.

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The Pac-10 was no slouch but it also was not the Big Ten.

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I mean the Big Ten is for sure the standard.

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The gold standard as far as NCAA volleyball is concerned.

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So I mean it is going to be an adjustment but we'll see how it plays out.

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And just out of curiosity how much do you think the travel plays into their ability

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to perform or them not being used to it because they're I mean they're traveling like a pro

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team at this point.

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I think it's actually insane.

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I am very opinionated about this.

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I understand that it is great for the league.

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We can probably dive into this in another day but like do these girls go to school anymore?

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That's what I want to know.

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Like how are they managing this?

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And I guarantee like not all of these teams fly private.

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There are some teams that definitely do but a lot of these schools are still flying commercial.

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So like what happened to an education?

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We will dive into this deeper on another episode because like this is something I'm very passionate

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about but yeah I digress.

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To finish off our weekly roundup Louisville squeaked out a five set win over Florida State

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but the games everybody's been talking about.

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Our feature matches for the week are Pitt versus SMU and Nebraska versus Purdue.

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It was an interesting week with Pitt and SMU.

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They played each other basically back to back.

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So in Pittsburgh Pitt won 3-0 on Wednesday night and then they turned around and played

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each other again on Saturday and the I think the moment the NCAA was waiting for was Pitt

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losing in five.

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It was wild.

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After having only dropped one set all season.

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Yeah.

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But I honestly I don't think this is a bad thing for Pitt.

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I think having an undefeated season where you're not really pushed is tough to maintain

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all season long.

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I'm guessing this is going to be a little bit of a tune up.

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Go back watch some video figure out what you did wrong.

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Having some nerves and being unsure of how to push back when teams have you on the ropes.

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And I think that we will get into this but my thoughts on their setter and how she progressed

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throughout the match I think was a big one for me.

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I honestly don't hate that they lost.

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Speaking from personal experience playing at Nebraska the years that I was there we

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were ranked like number one number two ish around there in the country like every season.

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And when a when you're at the top people are just gunning for you.

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So it is very hard to stay there.

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But it's really hard to maintain that consistency for four months.

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You know what I'm saying.

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So I don't hate that they lost every year that I played in Nebraska.

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We the years that we did best we had just like a head scratching loss.

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And not to say that SMU is a head scratcher like they were ranked 15 this week.

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They are a good team for sure.

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But I think that this can give them renewed motivation really bring them down to earth

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to be like okay we're not invincible here we have some things that we need to work on

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and I think it'll make them or I hope it'll make them come back stronger.

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So this was the first time that I had watched SMU play.

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And a couple of things that I was impressed with.

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I thought their left side Shemei had a really great match.

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She had 20 kills and hit two eight nine.

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And I thought yeah I thought she was a real driving force for that team along with middle

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blocker Okimor.

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They whenever they were together in the front row they made life really difficult for Pitt.

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They scored a bunch of block points and just seemed to build momentum for their team when

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they were on the floor.

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I thought their coach did some made some great adjustments later in the match which we can

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talk about after.

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But I was also really impressed with Foster's serving.

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She put them in a lot of trouble with her hybrid serve.

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Okay you literally mentioned the three players from SMU that I wanted to talk about so I

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am glad that we're on the same page.

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You know I like when we disagree because then things get extra spicy and I love debating

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these things with you.

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But you know we'll start out smooth for episode one and we can agree on this.

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I think those three players Foster the thing I like most about her was her serve.

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Loved the hybrid.

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She put Pitt in a lot of server save trouble and I just I love how aggressive it is.

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It's definitely a weapon.

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Okimor and Shemei were the stars for me.

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But I also do think that Purdue not the school the player everybody.

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She deserves some props as well.

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She has seen like seriously limited action this season.

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But she came in and she scored some big points when she needed to and she really made a difference

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down the stretch for SMU.

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So I just wanted to give her a shout out but Okimor and Shemei like blocking clinic by

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Okimor.

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Especially late in the match.

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It was wild.

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So here's a question for you.

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How much of an effect do you think SMU being mostly graduate students plays in their ability

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to win these tight matches?

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Ok thank you for saying that because I definitely think that this is worth mentioning.

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Every single starter on SMU is a graduate student.

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There's something to be said for having that much experience.

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I don't want to take away from them.

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Like obviously this is the team that they have on the floor.

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This is the team that they've been training whatever but like seven graduate students

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like there's not I'm curious to see if this program has any type of longevity because

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they collected so many players from the transfer portal and all of them are going to be gone

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next year.

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But conversely when we started watching the match I was like I recognize all these players

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from Pitt.

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And there are a couple grad students there you know but they stayed.

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They did their undergrad at Pitt.

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They stayed at Pitt.

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I have so much respect for that.

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I believe in where you choose to go unless something is crazy like you see it through.

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I am old school.

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I am a purist in that way so I loved seeing Pitt's lineup look virtually the same as it

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was last season.

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I do want to say Tori Stafford for me was the standout player for Pitt.

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I also love their attitude.

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I love a stuff and stare.

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Like when you get that block make them feel it.

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And I definitely was like giggling seeing Stafford and Jones do that a few times when

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they were blocking.

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But yes I think going back to your question I think the grad student aspect needed to

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be said.

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It needed to be said.

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I also you liked Fairbanks for approximately 50 percent of the match and then you were

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like absolutely not.

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So watching her set the first three sets I thought she did an incredible job of moving

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the ball around of balancing the offense of getting her hitters you know one on ones one

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on one and a halfs and just making SMU middles work to close blocks.

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And I was I thought she I thought she did a fantastic job.

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However and then moving into the fourth and fifth set I think she set the middles maybe

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three times don't quote me on that.

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I don't have the stats in front of me but it wasn't a lot.

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And you could see Okamor just looking at her and knowing exactly where she was going to

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put the ball and they made life for Babcock miserable in those fourth and fifth sets.

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And not only did they know where it was going Fairbanks sets were a little all over the

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map some of them were inside some of them were flaring off the net.

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And I mean Babcock is a player of the year I believe.

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Player of the year candidate.

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She's a sophomore.

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You know you've got to find a way to score as your top hitter on the team.

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But Fairbanks definitely didn't put her in a good position late in the match.

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And I'm curious if that was only because of the passing or if again like I said before

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they're being applied with some pressure from SMU and she's like I'm just going to set our

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best hitter I'm just going to set our best hitter.

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And she kind of lost confidence in her offense to get the job done.

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I'll be curious to see how she bounces back after this.

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It was honestly hard to watch.

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It was you could tell that she was just so desperate for Stafford and Babcock to put

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the ball away and it was so hard to watch because you're like set the middle and it's

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just like okay you have the experience you've played in a couple final fours like how is

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this happening?

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I completely agree with what you're saying about the Babcock situation.

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She just like fell off a cliff at the end of set four and just could not find herself

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again.

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If you are a national player of the year candidate you need to find ways to score.

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And I'm not saying like we're not talking small errors here.

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We're talking absolutely getting stuff blocked multiple times in a row or hitting it out

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like into the bleachers.

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These things weren't even close.

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So I was really disappointed to see that response.

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I don't disagree with you.

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The balls that Fairbanks was putting up for her were tough.

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She was getting killed inside when she was hitting from the back row those balls were

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being led way too far for her.

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But still the best players find a way and she did not.

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I understand you're not going to play great every game.

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Every player has matches that they don't play amazing.

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Been there I get it.

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I understand.

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But this this looked particularly bad and honestly Tori Stafford kind of was the only

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one that held it together there for Pitt.

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But you mentioned that and so I thought something that was really interesting I had to give

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props to the SMU coach.

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So in the fourth set they had Okimor lined up on Babcock to try and slow her down.

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And side note I thought Shemei did a fantastic job of adjusting her block lineup when the

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set started going inconsistent and they made her life miserable and Stafford was the only

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one scoring.

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And then in the fifth set their coach takes a bit of a flyer and lines Babcock up on Stafford

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to make her life miserable assuming or hoping that Babcock wasn't going to find her rhythm

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and be able to score and they made life miserable for Stafford in that fifth set.

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And I thought that was a really ballsy move by the coach that paid off.

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And when you're playing the number one team in the country sometimes you got to take those

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gambles and her players delivered on that strategy and I thought that was really cool.

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I 100% agree that was a ballsy tactical decision but she rolled those dice and baby you were.

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I mean Babcock did not recover after set four.

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But I think the thing that the tactical shift that really set everything in motion for the

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demise of Pitt in that match was in the middle of set four we saw some huge momentum shifts

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early like real bad both ways.

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And then at 15-15 the libero for SMU went back to serve Pitt was in rotation five so

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Stafford was passing on the left the middle Kelly was in the on the left side as well

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so they were stacked and there were two incredibly executed short serves to zone four the middle

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had to take them but Stafford kind of got held up because she was in her approach line

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and they just SMU just sent two blockers right over to bad Babcock and got two massive stuff

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blocks and that kind of wrote the story there for the rest of the match.

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So I thought that kind of set the tone and was an amazing tactical shift but then the

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lineup switch in set five kind of sealed the deal.

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Honestly SMU played steady when it counted they did not look great for a lot of the match

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but Hardemy says Pitt lost.

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Oh interesting I mean I think if if Fairbanks continues to put up consistent hittable balls

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yeah I mean a lot of things probably would have had to go their way it seems like they

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had a couple players who normally are solid have not great last two sets and they're the

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number one team I mean they can probably be most teams that's fair.

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Well entertaining match to watch but I leave that match with the big question of who is

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going to draw SMU come tournament time.

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They're going to ruin somebody's bracket.

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A hundred percent you know that those top seeds are just like crossing their fingers

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that SMU is not in their regional because they upset Nebraska early this season then

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they upset Pitt like they are capable of disrupting things for teams.

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Do I think that they have what it takes to be consistently a top four program right now?

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No absolutely not but they have shown that they can show up when it matters so.

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I want to see I want to see them against two or three more ranked teams and put that same

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performance on the floor.

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They had they played well not going to take anything away from them but you got to do

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it again and then you got to do it one more time.

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That's what the best teams do.

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Our second feature match this week was Nebraska versus Purdue.

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Of course it had to be Nebraska we couldn't start this podcast and not watch Nebraska

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match.

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Go Big Red.

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No I'm just kidding.

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I will you know what I will probably end up being more critical of Nebraska than other

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teams so it's like when you're coaching your own kid not that I have kids but I have heard

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and from experience.

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And honestly you're more critical of me than anybody else.

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So I've heard that you're more critical of your own kid when you're a coach.

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So why would this be any different?

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We have seen Purdue play several times this year.

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We saw them play Penn State they were absolutely terrible.

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I didn't think they were going to win a single match after watching that game.

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That was hard to watch.

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Then we saw them pick it up against Minnesota.

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So they've clearly you know righted the ship so to say.

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But this was a tight one.

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Three to two victory for Nebraska in Lincoln and we went overtime in set five.

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It was a lot of fun to watch.

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It was really back and forth and it left me with a lot of questions.

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Oh me too.

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I need to start that before I get into the critiques I need to give a shout out to Andy

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Jackson.

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I am so impressed with this girl.

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She started the match going 11 for 12.

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11 for 12.

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That is insane.

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She had a little bit of a dip part way through set three and into set four but she righted

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herself again.

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But aside from the numbers she makes life so easy for her outside hitters because teams

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respect her.

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They have to respect her.

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I loved how much work she puts in.

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She's running slides.

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She's putting up blocks.

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She's available in almost every transition set running all over the place.

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That girl puts in work and it was great to see.

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She was my favorite player to watch.

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100%.

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And she's got a little toot on her too.

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Which you love.

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I love it.

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Give me a little attitude.

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Give me a little fire, a little sass.

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So before we get into the other takes I had a question or a thought watching that Nebraska

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game in that I don't know that they have anybody with killer instinct.

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And I watched Jackson play and I thought there's their player who knows how to win.

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Who's going to push who wants the ball at the end of the match and who will score points

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for you.

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But you need one other player other than a middle to also be that way.

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Beeson's not bad.

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She's steady and she's really skilled.

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But you don't see that fire from her.

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And I'm curious if they're going to be able to step up when they're playing top, top teams.

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It's interesting you say that about Beeson because I do think that she could be that

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player for them.

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So this kind of leads into one of my hot takes and critiques of the Nebraska team right now

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is I think she's a little bit unsure of what her role is.

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Sometimes you know she'll serve and then get taken out.

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Sometimes she won't even get to serve and then we'll get thrown in if a rotation can't

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score.

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Sometimes she'll get to stay in the back.

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I don't think she knows what she is going to be doing but I think that she needs to

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play six rotations.

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Well it almost seemed like they didn't want to leave her in the back row but their left

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sides in two of those rotations couldn't score.

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They couldn't get out of that rotation so they had to put her in to run the pipe.

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I think if she's given the opportunity to just be a true right side and just bang on

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balls for six rotations, be an outlet when things are going sideways, I think you will

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start to see a little more of that swagger and that attitude from her because you did

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see a bit of it last season when she was playing six rotations but now she's kind of back and

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forth in the back row and I personally think that's a mistake.

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Especially because when she is serving you've got Krausey, Alec and the setter Bergen Reilly

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in the front row.

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That is in my opinion a liability.

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There's no offense there.

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I don't think I saw Rebecca hit a clean ball all match.

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No that's not true.

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She hit one good snap back to position one and the rest of them were paintbrushes and

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kind of miss hits and she was relatively effective but you're not blocking those balls so you

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can just vacate and hang out on the left side and the setter doesn't get that involved in

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the offense most of the time.

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It's a tough rotation and Beeson is going to need to be that player for them to be successful.

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I 100% agree.

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I don't think Lindsey Krausey is terminal enough to counteract Rebecca Alec's lack of

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production offensively.

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You can just see Perdue does not respect her at all.

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It was like night and day when Alec was in the front row versus Jackson.

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Alec they don't even care because she's not making contact with the ball it's just like

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okay let's just try to react to it like it's a paintbrush.

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Jackson however anytime there was a possibility that she could get the ball the outsides were

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one on one.

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Anytime and so I am so confused as to Nebraska's choice of lineup because you have your lowest

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producing middle offensively in the front row with Lindsey Krausey who I'm sorry is

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not the most terminal outside.

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So I don't know my hot take is they need to switch the rotation and Merritt Beeson needs

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to stay in the back row to give them a chance because they Perdue when they were down they

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made their comebacks and they made their runs in that rotation when Bergen Riley was in

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rotation position four.

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I did think it was a good call to bring in Taylor Landfair though because at one point

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Krausey was two kills two errors and 14 swings and then luckily she had a great server go

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back and she was able to pad her stat line by hitting some overpasses but like you can't

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you can't score points because your servers did a great job.

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Well I think Landfair didn't Landfair didn't start well but she was able to kind of find

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a rhythm as the match went on and score and that was one of the reasons why I think they

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pulled this off in five sets.

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She did make some big swings in the fifth set for sure.

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Speaking of the fifth set a couple thoughts one is for Purdue I understand you had to

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serve tough because Nebraska is such a great ball control team but they gave up four service

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errors on the first seven Nebraska points.

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When the match is in the fifth set you've got to find you got to do a better job at

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finding that bounce if you're the third server to go back there and miss you've got to be

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thinking I got a I got to stir strategically I'm going to take away an option with a location

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serve versus just trying to bomb out of the ball.

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They didn't have to they didn't put Nebraska under any pressure at the beginning of that

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fifth set and then on top of that they get a free ball at 10-8 or 10-7 off a great serve

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and they weren't they did nothing with it they gave a free ball back are you kidding

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me you need to ram that ball down their throats if you get a free ball in the fifth set in

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double digits we're talking 11-8 instead of 10-9 going into the end of that set which

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you lose by two points at the end somebody is doing towel runs or something for that

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play because you essentially lost the game there in my opinion.

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That was ridiculous and I am a Nebraska fan okay I love Nebraska but even I was screaming

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at the TV when Purdue returned a free ball with a free ball I was like what how does

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this happen literally that all things being said if you like taking everything away if

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you want to find one play that messed things up for Purdue this match it was that one yeah

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especially in a fifth set to go up three points instead of one give me a break I 100% agree

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with you on the serving issues though they missed 19 serves in that match you almost

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handed Nebraska an entire full set missing serves and I'm sorry but it's not like you

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guys were like crushing them well they didn't they didn't get very many aces but the thing

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for me is you need to serve tactically so if Jackson's in the front row and you're not

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getting stops anyway go back to the baseline and rip it you miss you miss they're siding

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out at 700 in those three rotations but when when she's not in the front row and you've

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got Raven blocking who did a fantastic job in that match you've got to put the ball in

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you've got to score your points there and I it just seemed they had the we're going

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to serve aggressive no matter what mentality which again I love that for a team and you

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need to find it but you also need to understand where you are where your strengths are and

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when you're going to take those risks and that was something I didn't think they did

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very well but it was really hard to watch and like I said we've seen them play a few

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times this season and I have noted it's been a pattern their serving has been absolutely

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atrocious in every match we've watched so they need to figure it out because they're

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clearly good they're good enough they're pushing good teams but like they need to get it together

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shout out to Eva Hudson and Chloe Chacon for having great matches in that match offensively

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they held the team together they both hit really well Hudson 349 Chacon 327 am I pronouncing

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that right Chacon but I think everybody knows people know who you mean and the one thing

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I will say for Purdue I hope they take some time this week and work on it Raven blocked

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incredibly well yes but she could not find a rhythm with her setter it she she's so athletic

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she jumps so well they need to find her and they need her to be an offensive threat as

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well as a defensive stalwart because she did a great job at that good word so hopefully

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hopefully she can find that because she could be a dominant player for them yeah I 100%

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agree the the left sides for Purdue definitely carried the weight for the team and Raven

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Colvin I mean her blocking was incredible it was a fun match to watch there I mean I

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think you can tell listening to us a lot of frustration and a lot of questions for both

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sides so I'll be curious to see both of those teams play a few more ranked opponents which

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is coming up I mean that that conference is so stacked so we're gonna see some more games

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and we're gonna see who steps up and and what other patterns continue from those two so

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in watching NCAA volleyball this season there is a pattern that I've noticed and it's been

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bothering me and I just need to talk about it for all of you just to be aware we're entering

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Sarah's hot takes portion of the show I don't even know if it's a hot take because it's

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like can you disagree with this okay maybe you can every team is doing it they're all

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gonna disagree with you hear me out hear me out okay so something I've noticed obviously

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offenses have gotten very fast and you know for a right side blocker who has to help in

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the middle and then get outside it's it's tough when the ball is coming that fast to

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the hitter it is hard to cover everything and so I've noticed that a lot of right side

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blockers have been leaving a lot of line when the hitters hitting totally fine I get it

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the part I don't get is the diggers in zone one have been coming up for tips so frequently

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and getting absolutely blasted it's like I don't know if this is a game plan decision

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I don't know if it's just a lack of awareness thing but it's like if the offense is being

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run that fast and you know that the blocker is not going to get the line you need to be

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back digging the line like I are you so preoccupied with the tip that like that is happening if

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the tip is that big of an issue you don't see that many hitters coming up and hitting

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the ball angle in front of the 10-foot line have the off blocker just worry about the

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tip or read and react but why is everybody coming under for tips when they should be

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digging the line what two thoughts one I don't know if you saw it but Lanfar was digging

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tips in the front row and still did not get it in fact I believe the libero got a better

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hand on a few of those tips coming from the back corner of the court than Lanfar so some

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of our left sides are maybe not as engaged in defense as they should be so that's one

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and the second one is I'm wondering if they're looking at the consistency of the setters

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and saying you're not getting the ball all the way out to the pin when you're running

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that fast so on the three or four balls where you do and they annihilate the line we're

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going to give you those ones but we're assuming we're going to get a block touch or you're

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not going to be able to hit that shot for you know 90 percent of the hitter setter combos

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now you played internationally where the setters deliver that ball more consistently maybe

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that's the disconnect but those are the only two things that I can think of because I agree

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with you on principle well and I mean I was a hitter who was like I'm gonna hit angle

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and then sharper angle and then sharper angle but even for me it's like if I saw that much

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line available I'm gonna hit it you also played with some incredible setters shout out to

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the setters I played with you really were great yeah so that I've just been it's been

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happening with a variety of teams I've been watching play with a variety of players on

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those teams and it's just like how is this happening so that is that is my big concern

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for the week and something that has just been like frustrating me I don't know that I have

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a hot take for this week but something that I've noticed that I really am glad to see

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is the amount of back row attacks that we're starting to see in the NCAA I remember watching

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you know maybe four or five years ago and they were all defensive players in the back

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row and there's nothing wrong with that but there was just no offense coming out of the

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back row and now we're starting to see Babcock's hitting out of the back row we're starting

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to see Harper Murray hitting out of the back row every team has someone coming out of the

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back row now and not only that they're running it well they're leading those hitters into

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the front row you're starting to see some no blocks coming out of the middle on those

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ones and it's it's really good and coming from more of the international game versus

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the college game where that's you know a staple of the offense it's really good to see and

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I think bodes well for the future of USA volleyball because these athletes are part of the offense

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in the back row and playing those six rotations I mean as somebody who made a career hitting

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back row arguably I was better hitting from the background on the front I love to see

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it I love to see it I love that they are leading these hitters you're seeing these girls land

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on the the center line of the court that is how it needs to be run ladies and gentlemen

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I love it and it has really broken my heart in recent years to see it used more as an

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emergency type of play or a like a get out of trouble play than an integrated part of

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the offense so I am all about that and as we continue here you will for sure notice

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the Adam will probably always have the positive takes and I will be critical okay so we'll

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see we'll see get ready for that yeah those were our little tidbits that we wanted to

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talk about but this week coming up has got some big matches that I'm excited to see so

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on Friday I'm really looking forward to the Oregon and Wisconsin match I think that you're

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gonna have two big teams going at it I don't even know what my prediction for that match

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will be well this past week I think they were 9 and 11 in the ranking and I'm pretty sure

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they're in Wisconsin don't quote me on that I could be wrong if they're in Wisconsin I'm

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gonna say Wisconsin in four I don't I can't I can't make a prediction on that match it's

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too close and then on Sunday I'm looking forward to the Minnesota Penn State match Penn State

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number three I think I'm gonna I think Penn State will win I'm gonna say also in four

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I think that one's gonna go to five love a five setter Stanford also has a big week coming

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up on Wednesday they're in Dallas taking on SMU and on Sunday they've got pit so it is

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a heavy week for Stanford so I think the Stanford pick game is going to be a fantastic match

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just in general I'm actually really curious to see SMU take on Stanford I want to I want

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to see the same thing I want to see them push those ranked teams I want to see the product

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that they put on the court this past week continue for another week not just a blip

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of hey we played really great volleyball this weekend yeah I don't want to see them satisfied

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for sure yeah so yeah lots of good games coming up we are really excited that concludes this

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week's episode of volley talk there's always something happening in the volleyball world

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and we hope you enjoyed this little fix with us thank you so much for joining us and we

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will be back next week see you guys later