Comments on: Sunday checkin

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:37:17 +0000

SDSU in the AAC for rowing they needed to be in a conference for national championship reasons.. Sac State in there as well.
Kind of surprised they aren’t in the WCC but maybe their request wasn’t accepted.
Not too many conferences sponsor the sport. The MWC doesn’t, the Big West doesn’t.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:29:25 +0000

orbitalripz — no worries. and i believe there were 32 automatic bids starting last year …

By: OrbitalRipZ

OrbitalRipZ — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:24:17 +0000

Re: 9 … I think you are probably right about the 32-32 bids. I did know that Louisville left the Big East for the ACC and Rutgers joined the Big Ten. But I forgot about the AAC, as what happens on the East Coast rarely registers in my mind. (San Diego State is an AAC associate member in women’s rowing.

AAC will get an automatic, but I do not know if the NCAA ended an automatic bid from one of the minor conferences. Unlikely but possible, as the NCAA has repeatedly stated that NOT ALL conference champions receive an automatic berth into D1’s women’s volleyball championship tournament. NCAA’s official site says it’s still 33-31 but 32-32 sounds plausible.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:35:28 +0000

BTW, new thread up on Hawaii still unranked. will update when the RPI comes out

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:30:27 +0000

6. agree with Ron about the could have/would have.
Logan Tom a prime example. Told me that she wouldn’t take a recruiting trip to Hawaii because she knew if she did she’d sign. Dad was still here. spent much time here during summers.

Hawaii gets the best they can get, given their obstacles, more since the BCS came into the picture and that money has funneled into volleyball.

8. Don’t know if the bye week will hurt.it all depends on what the other teams do.

10. as for Taylor, she’s had ice packs all season. She’s been seeing specialists already. She isn’t 100 percent. but has improved to being almost there. The week off will help. She isn’t involved in many blocking drills. She does shots and electrotherapy.

I feel that if Hawaii wins out, they get in. The only ‘bad’ loss is to CSUN. The other losses all to ranked teams, three of those went five.

11. agree with Andrew. unless something drastic happens and she re-injures the blow, they aren’t sitting her.

By: hwnstunner

hwnstunner — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:16:54 +0000

Yup, the 2011/2012 classes have had players transfer or not pan out, but the recruiting classes are getting better. Players like Taylor, Greeley/Kahakai, Castillo/Mitchem, and Iosia have been or will be gems as underclassmen.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:49:40 +0000

hawaii is in the NCAA tournament. their RPI should hold strong, even with one more loss. but, of course, to remove all doubt, they should just focus on winning out. the match at UCSB in 2 weeks looks the most dangerous and likely loss, among the matches left. but hawaii has 2 weeks to prep for it, so no excuses.

if csun can keep their RPI in the 30s, they’ll get in, and the big west will have 3 bids to the tournament. but tough road for them, they still have davis, ucsb and irvine left to finish the season.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:03:12 +0000

10.

That doesn’t really make sense. They won’t know if they make the tournament until the end of the season so how could they rest Taylor for that? If they rest her and lose another game, then there will not be any post season tournament for them.

By: blunite

blunite — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:57:58 +0000

Given the unpredictability of the NCAA and a lower RPI there is no guarantee of Hawaii even being invited. Moreover, if Hawaii receives an invitation to the NCAA regionals, it may be wise to rest Nikki Taylor for the rest of the season. After seeing the big ice pack on Nikki Taylor’s elbow and mention of an elbow specialist (during her interview) it is apparent that she is not 100%. She feels about 95%; however, she does not play front row in practice and they give her a “shot” before playing.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:39:59 +0000

orbitalripz — i believe there are 32 at-large bids now (to go along with 32 automatic bids).

this is due to some teams leaving the big east. ironically, the teams that left the big east kept the “big east” as the name of their conference. and the original big east conference renamed itself the american athletic conference. but out of all this, an additional conference created an additional automatic bid.