Comments on: Hawaii women’s volleyball: No. 21 Wahine 3, UCI 0, T25 results

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:26:32 +0000

https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=51755
new thread up with complete Sunday scores and RPI/poll posting being delayed because of my travel.
31. They are playing the freshmen. The changes that have happened.
With both Van Sickle and Rasmussen out, they have used Westerberg/Akana (both freshmen) at OH/opp. and Wagoner.
With Van Sickle in, that moves Wagoner out of the front. but she has come in to serve.
Guess my point is you only have so many spots on the court.

By: jmy

jmy — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:25:32 +0000

More good news for Hawaii’s RPI: UCLA upset Cal, 3-1…Surging UCLA or overrated Cal? Stanford & USC in the fifth…

By: ok-ok

ok-ok — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:28:35 +0000

need to start playing the other freshmen (riley & tiffany) as OH’s. Need rossy hannah to get some rest during games. BVS still coming along after her injury.

By: Cruisecontrol

Cruisecontrol — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:16:31 +0000

20. If Hawaii wins the rest of their matches, they will get the automatic berth into the NCAA’s based on the tiebreaker rules.
Brian Gimillaro was right when he said that 3 BW teams could make it into the NCAA’s. As islandman stated, it’s based on RPI, not where you finish in the conference standings. Right now it looks like Hawaii, UCSB, and Cal Poly will all have RPIs high enough to get an at large bid if they don’t win the conference and get the automatic bid.

By: Kahuna

Kahuna — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:16:48 +0000

Oops…I meant to say #26

By: islandman

islandman — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:14:44 +0000

20. Based on RPI, can’t three Big West teams make it ? They don’t have to all be tied in 1st place.

By: Kahuna

Kahuna — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:01:40 +0000

I agree with #28. We need to put the most powerful team in the floor. Coaches tend to not want to mess with the line up when this are going well but hitting these low numbers against such bad teams is not going to equate to success against higher quality teams.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:33:59 +0000

Leading teams in standing get better and better with season and both CalPoly and Santa Barbara showed fluid offense against Davis, and could STING wahine unsurprisingly, unless wahine get strengthened with JR, at least, in critical phases of the games. Both these opponents are top 50 RPI and two wins against them will boost wahines’ RPI to get back over 16. Please use wahines’ post-season team strategically, to manage each game on coming weekend.

By: Big Island Volleyball Fan

Big Island Volleyball Fan — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 10:16:21 +0000

I checked the stats from the two matches that UCSB played today and Thursday to see if Lindsey Ruddins could make Big West Player of the Week and now most definitely she will garner a record 12 this coming Monday. In both matches she hit over 0.500, 18 and 20 kills, respectively. If she keeps this up, UCSB could defeat Cal Poly on Nov. 9th, thus snapping a 29-match home winning streak (provided that Cal Poly beats CSUN next Tuesday). UH will need to block her again very effectively next Friday to win. Seems likely that UH and UCSB will share the Big West title with UH winning the tiebreaker and the automatic bid provided that UH wins out the rest of the season and UCSB does so after this coming Friday.

By: WaveRipper

WaveRipper — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:16:58 +0000

18. It was ugly. But I was just thinking to myself: can a sweep ever be an “ugly win” for the winning team?

19. Thanks for the RPI update.

20. I will address your conclusion or projection — “at best only two Big West teams” can make it to the tournament — in a future post.

Love this post (from Cindy): Marquette def. Seton Hall, 25-12, 42-40 (not a typo), 25-12