*** Game Thread: #9 Texas A&M @ #16 Tennessee ***

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Rambotx
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I know we were focused on the response to the emotional win over tu, but this was still a huge win over an RPI #18 team on the road. With the SEC being really weak at the bottom, we secured two wins against the conference's best!! We might have secured the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament at home. College Station will host! Now let's fight for a higher seeding!
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Top 16 overall seeds host the first two rounds, first four overall seeds host the sweet sixteen and elite eight round
Rambotx
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Action in Set 4 to secure the Win!
Cayaggie01
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My back of the envelope math tells me that should lock up the double bye in the Tourny with us beating UT and Auburn losing to Georgia.

Still. Just handle business.
OKCAGS
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NCAA seeding is all that matters ….. need to avoid Nebraska as long as possible .
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One less match over a 3 day period certainly doesn't suck
BiochemAg97
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Cayaggie01 said:

My back of the envelope math tells me that should lock up the double bye in the Tourny with us beating UT and Auburn losing to Georgia.

Still. Just handle business.


Double bye is huge. Jamie's complaint about the SEC tournament format is no rest days. A bottom half SEC looking to win the tournament has to play 5 matches in 5 days. 3 matches in 3 days for a top 4 team is hard enough.
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And it'll save our rpi by avoiding matchups against teams that are most likely out of the top 100, and give us at a minimum 1 decent opponent and potentially 2 huge ones. Right now we're looking at a rematch with texas and a win there would be a rematch with Kentucky potentially.
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Really big victory today. Hard to have a trap game against a top 16 team, but we did today. Aggressive travel schedule and quality opponent.

I can't overstate how big a win it was today!
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No idea where ncaa's RPI numbers are from but Masseys had us climbing 3 spots after the texas win to #10! Doesn't include today's games.

With one more good matchup against UF and then opportunities for big wins in the conf tourney, wonder if there is any way to climb to #8. Though again, I don't know where NCAA's numbers come from.
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I'm anxious too and I wonder how the committee will view us compared to the RPI. I think beating texas and having a hot start to the end of the season will absolutely help.
flintdragon
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NCAA RPI has us jumping 2 spots to #11.
taylorswift13_
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Here's a website that u officially breaks down every team's RPI. We're not to far from #8! Let's hope for some upsets

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi
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taylorswift13_ said:

Here's a website that u officially breaks down every team's RPI. We're not to far from #8! Let's hope for some upsets

https://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi

From #11, we're closer to #7 than dropping down to #12!
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Utah is barely hanging on at #50, we need them to get one upset against 14 TCU, 23 Baylor, 21 Kansas, or 16 BYU x2. I can't believe I'm going to root for Auburn to win to get into the top 50.
 
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