Comments on: Wahine up to 5th in poll, receive 4 votes

By: hollycow

hollycow — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:25:57 +0000

26. I believe Shoji scheduled Texas before they won the NC 2012. My reasoning is that he always schedules for the three tournaments, teams that would have Hawaii senior players on their rosters. This year Texas, UTEP, San Diego, and Portland St.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:03:00 +0000

posting isn’t working for me today for some reason … did this one go through?

By: Ki Mo

Ki Mo — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:53:21 +0000

@ 24. It’s a helluva lot better that our old conference; The WAC: 108. UMK 124. New Mexico St. 134. Idaho 147. Utah Valley 193. Bakersfield 222. Seattle 248. Grand Canyon 264. Texas Pan-American 322. Chicago St.

By: kimo browner

kimo browner — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:55:40 +0000

didn’t shoji schedule texas after they won the national title in 2012?

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:16:08 +0000

23. Shoji has always scheduled tough. not his fault that Cal wasn’t as good as expected last year, which hurt the RPI. tough when you schedule sometimes 2-3 years in advance and you have to hope the teams are as good as predicted

By: Grammy

Grammy — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:29:10 +0000

Wow, BW teams really don’t provide any RPI help as stated so many times. Wahine would be ‘feather in cap’ of any team taking set, sets or match off us, but conversely match loss would spell disaster for post season hopes of Wahine. No choice, win out and stomp conference foes. Confident that Wahine and Coaches are more than capable of meeting this challenge then round 1, 2 and 3 after that only seeding & brackets will tell. Can do, Wahine, can do! Go Wahine!

By: kimo browner

kimo browner — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:15:48 +0000

Coach Shoji took a giant gamble with his early conference scheduling but the Manoa Guru is looking like the grand master, especially when it comes to playing on a tilted court against the NCAA selection Comm. The Wahine #3 RPI rankings gets a foot-in-the-door for strong post-season regional hosting consideration. Provided they run the table?
Fans have to be satisfied with the way our team has played on the road. I believe it is our senior group that keeps this team together. One game at a time…but kudos to our COACH and his Wahine!

By: kimo browner

kimo browner — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:37 +0000

#1 USC will be traveling 850 miles up the Northern Coast and will play @ Corvallis on Friday ( 3pm HST) and Eugene on SUN ( 12 noon HST). Both games can be viewed on the PAC 12 NW.

#2 Florida hosts #15 Kentucky at 12:30 pm (HST) on FRI, and Georgia @ 8am (HST) on SUN.

#3 Texas is at Austin vs Texas Tech on WED and travels to Lawrence to play Kansas on SAT.

#4 Penn State can be seen on BIG TEN NW on Wed @ home against #11 Minn (1:30 pm HST) and vs #19 Wisc on SAT on Gametracker (2:30 pm HST).

#6 WASH is at home on FRI (5pm HST) and SUN (12 noon HST) to play ARIZ and ASU respectively. PAC 12 TV NW.

By: rage777

rage777 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:15:59 +0000

I thought we had a 41 match winning streak in the Big West conference. Sure it’s not in consecutive years, but the Big West Conference should get it right.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:31:08 +0000

continuing off maverick’s post in #16 above … it’s good to track how the teams that were on hawaii’s non-conference schedule are doing.

texas starting to roll in conference play, and even picked up one more ooc win against lsu.

san diego won 2 this week, but those wins are looking hard to come by in the wcc (they’re 3-2 in conference).

arizona started conference play 0-2, but picked up 2 wins against the oregon schools this week. (the win against oregon, in particular, was a nice surprise)

creighton had a surprising loss to butler this week, but it was an away game, on their first-ever conference road trip in the big east. still expect them to finish near or at the top of the big east.

portland st is now 5-1 in conference (and has raised their overall record to 8-8). they’re picking up wins. so is new mexico st (4-0 in conference). and south dakota (4-0 in conference). and wichita st (4-0 in conference).

the schools that were on hawaii’s non-conference schedule that will have some major issues are ucla (starting pac12 play 0-4, and they could finish at the bottom of the conference), northwestern (which was expected to finish at the bottom of the big10 anyway. they’re 1-3 in conference), and santa clara (2-3 in the WCC, and will probably finish somewhere in the middle of the conference).

**my apologies if this is a duplicate. i tried posting earlier, and it didn’t appear to take.