TV details announced at 5 p.m. Thursday
By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2013Per the NCAA’s 24 hour rule, TV for Hawaii’s subregional to be announced later today at 5 p.m.
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Cindy Luis covers University of Hawaii volleyball for the Star-Advertiser. She began her career as a sports journalist in Hawaii in 1981 with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was the sports editor, assistant sports editor, columnist and beat writer during a 31-year span before the paper became the Star-Advertiser. She graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Studies.
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NCAA Tourney 12-5 CSUN wins
By Cindy Luis on December 5, 2013scoreboard available at http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboards/volleyball-women/d1 bracket available at http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/volleyball-women/d1
Happy birthday to Dave Shoji, Jim Leahey
By Cindy Luis on December 4, 2013Dave born in 1946. not sure when Leahey, my distant cousin, was born
Free tickets for UH students for subregional
By Cindy Luis on December 3, 2013Not sure if this is through Shoji, who bought tickets two years ago to make sure students could come … UH is offering free tickets to first 300 UH students for Friday’s first round of the NCAA tournament. Tickets available for pickup at the SSC box office starting at 9 a.m. Thursday if the Wahine win Friday, then 300 free tickets will be available starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at the box office. Valid student ID required. Should the ticket […]
Hartong final POW for Big West
By Cindy Luis on December 2, 2013From the Big West Emily Hartong’s stellar play helped Hawai‘i earn a share of the conference title and garner the senior her fourth Big West Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week award this season.Hartong also collected her eighth career weekly honor, tying her for fourth all-time in Big West history.The 6-2 outside hitter dominated in a pair of road sweeps over UC Riverside and Cal State Fullerton. The victories helped create a three-way tie for first place in the Big […]
RPI vs. seed vs. poll
By Cindy Luis on December 2, 2013Did a comparison earlier about seed vs. RPI. am adding today’s poll Numbers are RPI followed by Seed and Poll 1. Penn State.(28-2) seeded 2 No. 22. Texas (23-2) seeded 1 No. 13. Florida (27-3) seeded 5 No. 64. Missouri (34-0). seeded 4 No. 45. Washington (26-2) seeded 3 No. 5 final four host6. Stanford.(24-5) seeded 7 No. 37. USC (26-5) seeded 6 No. 7 regional host8. Marquette (25-5). unseeded No. 229. Nebraska (23-6) seeded 8 No. 9 regional host10. […]
Wahine No. 11 in AVCA poll
By Cindy Luis on December 2, 2013not that it matters but Hawaii up a spot to no. 11 No change in top 8 Nebraska, Minnesota and Hawaii all move up ascot, courtesy of Colorado State dropping from 9 to 12. http://www.avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-12-2-13di/
Hartong Lowe's Senior CLASS award finalist
By Cindy Luis on December 2, 2013sorry, my bad, this was announced a month ago. The email was to remind me to vote since I’m on the media committee. voting ends next Monday Jennifer Cross, Michigan Natalie Hagglund, USC Caroline Jarmoc, Kansas Chloe Mann, Florida Ashley Potts, Western Kentucky Ariel Scott, Penn State Bailey Webster, Texas Lauren Wicinski, Michigan State Carly Wopat, Stanford