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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.

Ha! That is precisely my goal too: keeping out of the morgue. And to the best of my knowledge, so far I've been successful. Go Gophers! I'm already counting down the days to the home opener against Texas.

Interesting, but your position goes against the latest CDC guidelines. And now, at least according to a Strib article, it appears that Hennepin County is in fact a "high transmission" area, putting us in the category for which the CDC now again recommends masks indoors, even for vaccinated...

Despite the high transmissibiliy of the Delta variant of COVID, the U of M sent an email to students, faculty, and staff, indicating that because none of the U's five campuses are located in high tranmission areas, the U will not be reinstating their mask mandate. As a senior citizen student...

On the online TV schedule site I look at, it shows that ABC will be showing a super-regionals game this Saturday. They will be showing "Oklahoma vs. Washburn." And some people still say the media shows little respect for college softball!

The Big Ten's final stats show how dominant Michigan was, especially in pitching. They led the league in team batting average, ERA, and fielding. Their ERA was 1.10, and the next lowest was the Gophers at 2.05. Their pitchers gave up 45 earned runs; Minnesota gave up 83; and only one other team...

Small consolation, but at least in the D1Softball poll, the one that typically comes out first each week, the three out of four losses to Michigan didn't hurt the Gophers. They remain at #19, with Michigan jumping over them, moving from #21 to #18. https://d1softball.com/category/top-25/

I don't know how it compares with previous years, but the Gophers do take a lot of pitches. They have 145 walks this year. The next highest among Big Ten teams is Nebraska's 106, and those are the only two teams with more than 100. Michigan, the league leader in batting average, has been issued...

On Wednesday, Michigan State gave Michigan a pretty good battle. The game went 9 innings, with Michigan winning 1-0 behind 22 strikeouts by Storako.