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I thought there would be at least a few comments about the Michigan match by now. Are people stunned into silence? Serving and serve receiving were obviously where this match was lost. Michigan had 8 aces and 5 serving errors for a net of +3; the Gophers had 1 ace and 16 errors for a net of...

Note that 2 of the top 3 (and 3 of the top 12) are ACC teams. Big Ten has 5 of the top 10 (and 6 of the top 13) in the coaches' poll, and 5 of the top 11 in the RPI. Some of the bigger discrepancies between this first RPI and the latest coaches' poll: Tennessee (7, 22) Colorado (14, 24) Rice...

The Big Ten just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

Nice first set by Gophs, hitting .467, with five kills coming from the middles. But there were 0 blocks in the set; neither team had one.

Yah, I was responding to a comment about the lack of a killer instinct. I thought Morgan was pretty good at getting the team fired up in that way.

There sure has been a lot of pessimism in this forum. As I recall, there was similar pessimism -- both about the team and about McCutcheon -- early on during the non-conference schedule a few years back, and the Gophers ended up doing pretty darn well that season. Tonight's win, without...

Maybe due to the loss of Taylor Morgan?

In a post-game interview, Florida Coach Mary Wise said in her 31 years of coaching, Samedy's performance might have been the best she's ever seen by an opposing team's player. Samedy had 31 kills on 71 swings, with only 4 errors. Minus Landfair, the Gophers did stick in there. But again, we...

Ever-increasing parity in women's NCAA volleyball.

As with that 24-20 lead against Baylor, the Gophers are having difficulty at the end of sets. As you noted, in last night's match they led 23-17 in the first set and lost. In the second set, it was 21-21, and Texas then finished with a 4-0 run. In the third set, which the Gophs won, they led...

Tonight's match will be the first one where last year's recruits, three of them starters now, will be playing in front of our great Maturi Pavilion crowd. It'll be interesting to see how they respond to that. Unless, of course, the masks will muffle the noise a bit.

AVCA Coaches' rankings as of Aug. 30, 2021: 1 Texas (42) 1576 2-0 1 2 Wisconsin (15) 1542 2-0 2 3 Kentucky (7) 1460 3-0 3 4 Nebraska 1382 2-0 5 5 Florida 1338 3-0 6 6 Ohio State 1213 2-0 11 7 Pittsburgh 1191 3-0 9 8 Purdue 1127 2-0 8 9 Baylor 1112 1-1 10 10 Minnesota 1008...

I clicked on this article on gopherhole.com's front page. I thought it was about the Gophers' Women's hockey coach, Brad Frost. Thank heavens I was wrong.

Kilkelly didn't play tonight. Was there any word why?

I'm a student, so I hate to make this prediction, and I certainly hope I'm wrong. But I just don't see how the Unviersity is going to get through this semester with in-person classes. Just about every staff person I have talked to on campus in the past few weeks agrees with this pessimistic...

With both Baylor and Texas coming up, Texans Glenn and Wenaas, who also looked good, should have a lot to get excited about. I wonder if those schools recruited either of them. Glenn is listed at 5'10" but, besides her serving, she sure looked solid at the net too, with Alexis Hart-like kills...

Michella Chester's Preseason Power 10 rankings (in parentheses is the AVCA Coaches' post-season ranking in April 2021): 1. Texas (2) 2. Wisconsin (3) 3. Washington (4) 4. Florida (5) 5. Nebraska (6) 6. Kentucky (1) 7. Pittsburgh (8) 8. Purdue (7) 9. Minnesota (9) 10. Baylor...

The Gophers opening opponent, Baylor, was put on four years probation and fined $5,000 for its sexual assault scandal. Though the allegations were about the football team, which did receive some recruiting restrictions, it seems like the entire athletics department was put on probation. This...

The U has now reinstated its indoor mask requirement for all students, faculty, and staff. I guess we should expect that there will be a mask requirement at Gopher volleyball games.