Comments on: Warriors up to No. 3 in AVCA poll

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:53:15 +0000

3. Not true. UC Irvine got the NCAA at-large that Hawaii should have gotten.
Hawaii tied for No. 2 in the Big West with UCI in the regular season, beat UCI in the Big West tournament. There was no valid reason to give the at-large to the Anteaters.
The NCAA tournament is a 6-team tourney so not sure what you mean about the Big West fighting for its third-place team. AQs went to the champions of the Big West (Long Beach State), MPSF (UCLA), MIVA (Ohio State), EIVA (Harvard), Conference Carolinas (King) Leaving one at-large spot.
Not fair, as you put it, was Hawaii with the No. 1 RPI, the only one to beat both Long Beach State and UCLA, and the runner-up of the Big West tournament with the head-to-head over UCI, being left out

By: Stanford Yuen

Stanford Yuen — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:41:05 +0000

Problem is that last year Big West had only the Beach in the
NCAA, and Hawaii was shut out. Big West should push harder for their 2nd and 3rd place team. NO FAIR!!!

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:20:36 +0000

1. The Big West takes nominations from schools and the conference makes the decision.
has nothing to do with the NCAA. And as you point out, Hawaii didn’t play anyone of note.
I thought for sure Hawaii would nominate Joe Worsley for POW.
UCI had two of the honors and they had three good wins on the road
CSUN Setter was Freshman OW.

By: T103

T103 — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:03:14 +0000

Cindy, just asking cuz I don’ know, but has the shenanigans of the ncaa tournament committee crept into the weekly honors or something? Is it b/c we didn’t play anyone considered strong or something?