They did not, I assure you

Great spot with lots of room to improve! If we clean up play and stay consistent we can improve on that! Missouri behind us at 29!

6. Florida
11. Arkansas
13. Tennessee
25. Texas A&M
29. Mizzou
35. Auburn
36. Mississippi State
44. Kentucky
59. LSU

Saw this on Twitter. Shows just how impressive our middles have been.

Shucky said:

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Saw this on Twitter. Shows just how impressive our middles have been.

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Very cool. Unfortunately we don't pass well enough to feed them consistently.

RPI Futures are out now and have us with a 100% probability of finishing in the top 45 in RPI to virtually guarantee a tourney invitation. It currently figures us having a 30% chance of finishing top 16 and hosting the first weekend. For those of you unfamiliar, RPI Futures is a project by a volley stats contributor that answers the question: "What would the final RPI be if we used win probabilities to project the remaining games on the schedule?" This version uses Pablo ratings which is a win probability model based on past results.

The RPI futures midpoint of wins in the model for us sits at 19. I think that is the median number of wins in the distribution of outcomes based on the simulations - we don't have to achieve this to get into the top 45. This is what I assume is required to finish at our predicted RPI of 23.

To end the season with 19 wins, we would finish at 19-9. If we look ahead to find five more losses, assume two losses to Tennessee, away at Kentucky, and Florida at home. We could take one more loss in the matches at LSU and Mizzou and at home against Georgia and Auburn as well as the hypothetical easy wins vs. South Carolina, Miss St., Ole Miss x2 and Alabama.

So while the models still like us a lot, achieving that predicted win/loss total will require a lot of growth and consistency from the team as Morrison keeps saying in interviews. I guess the upside of possibly getting into the top 16 would include handling all those "expected" wins and stealing a Tenn, KY, or Fla game or two or three.

The downside of finishing closer to a 45 RPI and sneaking into the tourney to face a top seed would have us losing a few more of those "expected" wins and not picking up any unexpected wins.

5-1? Manning hurt??

Hope Meuth figures everything out, she's been playing consistently bad for a few weeks now.

I hate it is usually set 3 in a 3-1 so that is the loss. And we played so sloppy in 3. Then we come out and kick their tails in the 4th.

Another good win. Dominate at the end. Meuth still look out of sync to me. I'll take that result every day though!

I see where Florida and Missouri both lost. .

Artimus Gordon said:

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I see where Florida and Missouri both lost. .

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UF was whipped.

Nice bounce back road win!

anyone know why we were playing with only one setter? I didn't watch the whole game. Brown was also in for Cos in the 4th set.

Manning had been hit in the head from the Mizzou match, protocol

Ag4eva95 said:

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Manning had been hit in the head from the Mizzou match, protocol

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thanks. didn't know that

Manning played today. She didn't play in set 1 or 2, but played in sets 3 and 4.

Anyone catch today's game? I missed it but just read the write up. Seems like they played well.

They played fairly well! Passing was an issue but Ifenna and Ital had strong games! Manning served them off the court. Very strong blocking game today

yeah, while the game wasn't a blowout, it never felt in doubt. Miss State could not figure out our block and all hitters looked good. Noticed Lopuyo getting more swings in.

Was a pretty complete team performance. It's hard to tell about State's level or maybe they're just a good matchup for us. Pablo model has them significantly better than Ole Miss and Mizzou (66 vs low 80s). (Of course, Mizzou may not have another out of body experience like they did against us in the fourth set all season. That was more like a top 20 team.).

Before yesterday I had assumed a pretty clear bottom 4 with Bama, Ole Miss, State, and SC but then SC takes Auburn to five, losing at 13.

LSU will be interesting for us on Friday. They had a rough week v Ark and Tenn, not scorning more than 20 points in six set losses. We have been that team for stretches in matches this year but have been significantly better too.

Game #1. 25-23 A&M despite 7 service errors!

Match on sec network. Vs LSU

If we could only serve receive

The Muoneke/ Hogan combo isn't helping anyone

The refs won't cost us a match, but these two are dumb.

25-16 LSU 2nd set

Why did we wait until we're down 16-23 to finally set a middle. We chose to set Ital over our above average middles. That was a bad look

Take the 3rd. Determined to make it difficult on ourselves

That was a very big win.

Great job ladies!