Mens Volleyball 2014

Team is now 5-2 having won 5 in a row in league and currently in first place. Tonight beat Stanford 3-1. Very exciting game. Sandman is a senior and Patch is on a mission. Got a couple of new kids that look good. Heninger is a transfer from a Canadian school. Had some great kills.

Now #4, lost last night to #3 Pepperdine on the road in 5 sets. Plays #5 USC tongiht.

I watched the Pepperdine game. There were some impressive rallies. I saw lots of blue in the crowd. The big difference between the teams was Pepperdine's greater desire (both teams had similar ability) to keep the ball in play. When they made a good hit and BYU managed to return the ball they hadn't relaxed but were ready. This didn't happen as often when the roles were reversed. Despite this we lead 9-8 in the 5th set and appeared to have momentum. This will probably be a learning experience applied to tonight's game. I'm excited. Our team has some amazing talent.

We tied for first in conference. Conference playoffs started tonight. We killed USC 3-0. Next game Thursday against UCLA-UCSB winner. Both teams beat us last week but we are not the home team.

For those of you who had more "important" things to do than watch the match tonight, you really missed out on a fun match, provided you're a BYU fan/player/coach otherwise it wasn't all that fun. BYU murderated USC in the first set, 25-13. It wasn't even as close as the score said it was. The next two matches were much closer, 25-18 and 25-17.



The highlight of the match was when USC thought that a ball had gone out because it hit an object up by the ceiling and immediately went into the little huddle up. It turned out that the ball wasn't considered to have gone out and was still a live ball. Easy, easy point for BYU.



The match was a great kick start after having lost the previous four matches.

We play UCSB next Thursday 8pm MT. They won in 5 sets.

Swept the Gauchos. Finals against Stanford on Saturday night 7pm.

I got home late last night, but had recorded the game. It was worth staying up until 2:00 to watch! I'll have to do the same Saturday night. Time to take it to Stanford!

With 6 teams in the national tournament, the top 2 will get a bye. The winter on Saturday should get one of those byes.

Swept Stanford. In fact swept the best if the MPSF. We'll play Stanford probably on Thursday in Chicago.



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Swept Stanford. In fact swept the best if the MPSF. We'll play Stanford probably on Thursday in Chicago.



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For those of you who had better things to do last night than support your cougar men's volleyball team, hey, I was watching it here in Florida while cross stitching and cross stitching is a manly thing to do, just ask me any time, you missed a great match.



Like Scott said, we swept them, but it wasn't an easy sweep. The scores were 25-23, 25-22, and 25-22. In the second set, BYU was down 0-4 and seemed to have reverted back to being a typical high school girl's vb team, but with 4,367 attending fans raising the roof, they pulled their act together and started to click.



Both teams played very well, but six players on the floor for BYU and the seventh up in the stands were just too good last night.



The game ended on a bummer play, to speak of. Everybody was hoping that Sander would smash the ball so hard that it would erupt and let all the air out and he really tried, but Stanford kept digging it out and putting it back over the net. Bummer.



Finally, a Stanford player, in his eagerness to stop the train, reached too far over the net and hit it. Call it a night and go home.



Now it's on to Chicago and let's hope BYU does better there than it did in the beginning of the season where it lost it's first two games.

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The play-in matches will take place April 29 and the semifinals and final will take place May 1 and 3. The play-ins, semifinals and championship will all be played in Chicago, at Gentile Arena. Loyola Chicago is the host.



In the first play-in match No. 3 seed Stanford (22-8) will be paired with No. 6 seed Erskine (21-6), with the winner advancing to the championship bracket to play No. 2 seed BYU (21-8). In the second play-in match No. 4 seed Lewis (23-7) will play No. 5 seed Penn State (24-6). The winner will be placed in the championship bracket to play No. 1 Loyola Chicago (27-1). Game times for the play-in matches are 7 and 9 p.m. ET. Game times for the semifinals are 7 and 9 p.m. ET. The championship match will be played at 8 p.m. ET. The semifinals will be streamed live on http://www.NCAA.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and the championship match will be broadcast live on ESPNU.

Bolding is mine. For those without a calender, BYU will be playing this Thursday at either 7 or 9 p.m. Living on the east coast, I really, really want it to be the early game.

Just found out, it's the early game. YEA!!!!!!!! The Church is true and my mama does love me.

Mars wrote:


And then?

Well, mama don't love me as much and the Church has fallible men in it.



Been real busy lately.



It was nip and tuck for the whole match, basically, but Stanford came out with the long end of the stick and used it to beat BYU.

Finished the year ranked #3.