Top 40 RPI, quality wins against baylor and nebraska, ended on a 4 game winning streak. We will most likely be in a 3 way tie for 4th with baylor and oklahoma unless oklahoma beats ISU tonight. I think we're in. Any thoughts?

They better be! We've done everything possible in the last few weeks to ensure that spot, and I don't know if there's very many hotter teams going into the tournament. It would be an absolute travesty if we were kept from the tournament

I agree. We have to get in.

I dont know about the idea of being one of the hotter teams with 4 wins in a row but we should be in. Barring a huge win by Oklahoma over Iowa State we should be tied for 4th with Baylor and Oklahoma behind three top 10 teams in the country. The win at Oklahoma was huge and the comeback in set 2 tonight took the wind out of the sails of Mizzou.

I would say we are 90% in...I wish we had one more signature win and/ or not lost to Kansas State or St. Mary's but i think we are good enough to be in.

That said we need to recuit a player with the athletic ability of #9 for Mizzou in the future.

Yeah, I don't know about that "one of the hottest teams" thing.

Credit for beating a decent OU team on the road, but beyond that, we played two horrible teams and an average one at home.

Anyways, we should be in. We'll know tomorrow afternoon.

Wow, what an up and down season for volleyball. I'd like to see what they can do in the tourney.

Are we recruiting a setter for next year?

We have a 6'1" setter coming in from Colorado as well as 2 Ouside hitters one from Wharton and one from Cy Creek. None in the top 250 according to prepvolleyball based upon potential promise at the collegiate level.

We will be down next year with inexperience at collegiate level plus meshing with new setter. Heard rumor also a setter from Canada but not sure of that. Maybe the same one already described that is from Colorado.

With Iowa State sweeping Oklahoma last night i think an above .500 conference record and 4th place (tied) in conference should get us in then it comes down to ball control and serving. That has been up and down this season which makes us rely too much predictably on our pin attackers which we use a large amount anyway. I can see us a #7 seed and winning first round match

Can someone post it here for those of us who dont get ESPN News? The selection show comes on at 2pm on ESPN News.

top four seeds:

1 - Penn State
2 - Texas
3 - Florida St
4 - Stanford

Penn State region - playing in Gainesville Florida

Penn St vs. Binghampto
Army vs. Penn
Miami vs. Florida intl
Charleston vs Florida

bottom half of the Gainesville regional

Cal vs. Lipscomb
Cincinnati vs Ohio St
Georgia Tech vs. Baylor
Long Beach St vs. UCLA

Stanford regional

Michigan vs. Niagara
Ohio vs. Notre Dame
Saint Mary's vs. UC Santa Barbara
Long Island vs. Stanford

top half of stanford bracket

Illinois vs. IP-Fort Wayne
Milwaukee vs. Dayton
USC vs. Oklahoma
New Mexico vs. Hawaii

If OU is in, we HAVE to be in.

We're in!!

Texas region - played in Omaha

LSU vs. Tulane
Arizona vs. TEXAS A&M
TCU vs. Rice
Texas St. vs. Texas

Top half of Texas region

Iowa St vs. George Mason
Wichita St. vs. Saint Louis
Washington St. vs. Northern Iowa
Coastal Carolina vs. Nebraska

Analyst just said that the Big 12 got screwed - what a surprise.

Florida St region - played in minneapolis

Florida St. vs. Alabama A&M
Florida A&M vs. Jacksonville St.
Kentucky vs. Michigan St.
Clemson vs. Oregon

anyone know where the game is being played?

Bottom half of Florida St region

Minnesota vs. Louisville
Duke vs. Tennessee
Colorado St. vs. Middle Tennessee
Northern Colorado vs. Washington

The Omaha regional sucks for the Big 12.

Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

i thought that was just for the regional games and the first and 2nd round sites were different

Florida State as a top seed. What a joke. That is a creampuff regional, it looks good for Washington. I guess losing that final match was a blessing in disguise for them.

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Looks like our first round is in Baton Rouge, La

Game will be either Dec. 3-4, 4-5, 5-6 to be hosted by LSU in Baton Rouge, LA...

BRACKET: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ncaa/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/2009-WVB-D1Bracket.pdf

***Arizona***
Ranked No. 19, Record: 19-10

Recent losses:
11/28 to No. 16 USC 3-1
(23-25, 25-22, 36-34 and 25-23) and lost to No. 9 UCLA before that.

Last win: 11/22 vs. No. 11 Cal 3-1.

Florida State is NOT a top seed and the idea of putting the top three teams in a pretty good conference in the same regional is wrong.

That said it is going to be interesting Arizona and LSU both very atletic teams

Interesting side note if we make it past Arizona and play LSU Mary Battis and Jenny Banse will go up against Samantha Dabbs their club setter for like 300 years at Alamo

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Interesting Note for what its worth... Rice swept (SEC Champion) LSU to close out the season... They could possibly give t.u. a run for it. if they make it to 2nd round.



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