Comments on: Hawaii opens at 21 in RPI, No. 12 in poll

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:10:44 +0000

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=39556
new thread up

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:07:45 +0000

21. the SID did not forget to nominate anyone. they decided not to.
22. HEY, yes, done stuff on Jim but nothing recent

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:17:39 +0000

Beware of LBS! They have the players and the coach that can beat us if we don”t play well. We need to have good passing to beat this team. We are better balanced but they are getting stronger as the season progresses. Thanks, tongo, love your updates.

By: tongo

tongo — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:15:13 +0000

Watched that LBS match vs SB Matched also. It was a breakout match for that 6’4″ Chinese MH – but to be fair, it was the match where Gauchos Sr .6’4″ MH Phoebe Grunt was injured and did not play. For me, my concern is OH Nele Barber who is hitting well mixing it up especially with the dink shots right over the block. Also, Beach switches 6’2″ MH Ashley Murray to the pin position in key situation, and you can see where the Beach will switch Murray to the pin when they can match her up with Granato. Also, even though the Beach do not have a lot of aces, they are good servers getting their opponents -both Cal Poly and Santa Barbara out of system. Our OHs will have their hands full.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:07:16 +0000

Cindy, I read your RPI article today and have one recommendation. The import of the article is the RPI for selection purposes, and the challenges UH faces. However, you mention that UH had a final RPI of 15 after their run in the tournament. Rather than using the final RPI, I would recommend using the selection RPI (you can find it in the RPI link I provided above), which the committee used to seed teams in the tournament. Any RPI after the selection RPI is irrelevant (I don’t know why NCAA even computes it once the tourney begins) and also skewed because only 64 teams play in the first round, 32 in the second, etc., so those teams that keep winning will see and RPI ranking rise relative to everyone else. UH was 26-1 at the end of the regular season and had a #26 RPI ranking, which clearly put it out of the seeding discussion. This ranking is a better comparable to discussing this year’s developing RPI ranking, as opposed to 2015’s end-of-postseason RPI rank.

By: Rabbit ears

Rabbit ears — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:59:33 +0000

No worries, wahines will step up and take care of business.

By: Mekanaka

Mekanaka — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:52:33 +0000

After watching how efficiently LBS dispensed with CP and UCSB, the Wahines task will definitely be a challenge. Their middles are as formidable as ours and that player from China can terminate.

By: tongo

tongo — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:13:37 +0000

Glad everyone is so optimistic about getting post season. Right now, the BW automatic berth to post season appears to be a two horse race between Long Beach and UH. This upcoming match at the Pyramid looms very large.

By: tipshot

tipshot — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:32:16 +0000

Someone at VT predicts future RPI’s and Washington may not be seeded either. I wouldn’t be surprised if HI and WA got sent to San Diego for a sub regional. Yikes.

(And it’s “should have” not “should of” …sorry warriorwahine, but that’s one of my pet peeves that drives me crazy.)

By: warriorwahine

warriorwahine — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:47:37 +0000

welp #21 at rpi. should of, NOT could of, beaten k-state and should of beaten u-dub, both were weak, but apparently wahine took neither as priority.

unseeded uh goes to u-dub again (to be used as fodder by the no clue at all ncaa)