2017 Season

[SWSiouxMN]

They definitely looked a lot better in sets 2-4.  Start conference play off right and now its time to get ready for UNC.  Lets get home 2-0.

 

[SiouxVolley]

The Massey Rankings now have Portland St as a favorite to win all their Big Sky games and go undefeated in the conference.  The match at Portland will go a long way to decide who hosts the tournament, and theoretically, UND can go 15-1 is the BSC and still not host.  Seriously doubt UND will be an at large team after that loss to Ga Tech, the Cal Poly loss is considered differently as they are so strong, so that PSU game could make or break the season.

Portland St is only a slight favorite at Sac St, but if we lost at Portland we'd have to have a one game lead over PSU to host the tournament.  Most of the Big Sky teams we'll have to roll 3-0 over them to impress the P5 selection committee, and we failed last night.

[Feff]

Have we fallen in the rankings or has Portland St been playing exceptionally well? 

[SiouxVolley]

56 minutes ago, Feff said:

Have we fallen in the rankings or has Portland St been playing exceptionally well? 

UND fell after the Cal Poly game, and Portland St has been inching up seemingly this whole season.  The Vikings lost to Boise St and Santa Clara, which are below where UND sits.  Since the game is at Portland, PSU is the favorite, but if the game was in Grand Forks, UND would be the favorite.

Sac St seems like the other likely challenger, as squads like No Ariz and No Colo and Idaho St have plummeted in Massey from last year.

[SiouxVolley]

A volleyball website has this article on UND this week:

http://volleymob.com/north-dakota-continues-improve-heading-conference-play/

[SiouxVolley]

UND seems to have shaken off previous slow starts as they beat UNC 25-18 in the first set.

But started the 2nd set off badly, losing 7-2 so far.

[SiouxVolley]

Eeeked by in the 2nd set, 27-25.

[SiouxVolley]

UND swept No Colo in Greeley.  Third set was 25-20.

[SWSiouxMN]

Good win out in Greely, now  take care of business at home.  Both Idaho and EWU are coming in 2-0 after sweeping the Montana schools

[Smoggy]

What was it I saw...like only our third win ever in Greeley.

[SiouxVolley]

As witnessed by the UND team at Ole Miss, schools are upgrading their volleyball where necessary.  Kansas, though it has a Top 20 team, is spending millions to expand and upgrade it's volleyball facility, which only seat like 1300 now, but will be razed and rebuillt to 3000+ shortly.

http://www/.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article174068001.html

In the Summit, Denver and USD have good to excellent facilities, but why NDSU insists on the Bensen Bunker gym is beyond my pay grade.  But don't look at the ratings as now NDSU is in the top 90, though they didn't even push UND in that match.  Most of the Big Sky is well below them, except Portland St and Sac St.

[cberkas]

11 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:

As witnessed by the UND team at Ole Miss, schools are upgrading their volleyball where necessary.  Kansas, though it has a Top 20 team, is spending millions to expand and upgrade it's volleyball facility, which only seat like 1300 now, but will be razed and rebuillt to 3000+ shortly.

http://www/.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article174068001.html

In the Summit, Denver and USD have good to excellent facilities, but why NDSU insists on the Bensen Bunker gym is beyond my pay grade.  But don't look at the ratings as now NDSU is in the top 90, though they didn't even push UND in that match.  Most of the Big Sky is well below them, except Portland St and Sac St.

That's part of the football stadium project at Kansas. There is something else that is going to be part of that project.

[SiouxVolley]

There was an upset yesterday as Minnesota lost for the first time in 40 home games and fell out of the #1 spot as Michigan State swept them.  UND might have been helped by this in the Massey Ratings as Mich St lost to Ga Tech who UND also lost to.  But UND's ranking rose 4 spots in Massey to #45.

[darell1976]

On 9/24/2017 at 9:12 PM, SiouxVolley said:

As witnessed by the UND team at Ole Miss, schools are upgrading their volleyball where necessary.  Kansas, though it has a Top 20 team, is spending millions to expand and upgrade it's volleyball facility, which only seat like 1300 now, but will be razed and rebuillt to 3000+ shortly.

http://www/.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article174068001.html

In the Summit, Denver and USD have good to excellent facilities, but why NDSU insists on the Bensen Bunker gym is beyond my pay grade.  But don't look at the ratings as now NDSU is in the top 90, though they didn't even push UND in that match.  Most of the Big Sky is well below them, except Portland St and Sac St.

NDSU doesn't care about volleyball, their focus is on football and whatever resources are left then its men's basketball. Women's sports there have plummeted in the last decade.

[SiouxVolley]

Massey says that Idaho Thursday should be our toughest remaining home game, if that is possible.

[Dustin]

I don't see it listed on undsports.com, but I noticed on the cable receiver that tonight's game against Idaho is on FSN+.  I also looked ahead for Saturday's game, but that was not listed.

[SiouxFan100]

14 minutes ago, Dustin said:

I don't see it listed on undsports.com, but I noticed on the cable receiver that tonight's game against Idaho is on FSN+.  I also looked ahead for Saturday's game, but that was not listed.

Thanks for the heads up Dustin - I was wondering if it was on TV.

[UNDColorado]

It is on here as well, first listed game today: http://www.bigskyconf.com/sports/2015/11/19/WatchBigSky.aspx

[Dustin]

Slow start for the girls, but once they settled in, they showed that they are clearly the better team. Idaho doesn't have anyone that can hit as hard as us, although they made it interesting enough for Pryor to call TO at 22-19. Amelia Johnson is getting playing time over Julia K. 

[SWSiouxMN]

BTW: What's up with Julia K? hurt?

[Dustin]

Set 1 to Nodak 25-22. Ashley B has some serious heavy artillery. 

[Dustin]

4 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:

BTW: What's up with Julia K? hurt?

Not sure. She's standing in the sideline with everyone else. Brace on her left knee, but she'll always have that. 

[Dustin]

Set 2 to Nodak 25-18. Tepavac got some front row playing time over Johnson, including at least one kill. 

[terbele]

Anyone have an idea why pluto on Roku pixilates so badly and watch big sky on the computer doesnt?

 

[cberkas]

24 minutes ago, Dustin said:

Not sure. She's standing in the sideline with everyone else. Brace on her left knee, but she'll always have that. 

Could it be they are just resting her?