doubtful. if teams travel less than 400 miles to their tournament site, the NCAA only has to pay for a bus trip, which is cheaper than the flight that they have to pay for for longer trips. Thus they maximize the numbers of bus trips. Given that UNI...

Or Marquette or Minnesota or possibly Creighton (if they beat Marquette in the Big East tourney)...

As always, serving and serve reception will be important.
Those 12 service errors that UNI had kept Evansville in the match. (though it's a tough line to walk, because if they don't serve aggressively, Drake has the hitters to punish you when they...

I don't know if I'd call it a GOOD chance. UNI's current RPI ranking after that win sits at Forum ideas
If they went with just RPI to determine at-large bids (which they don't always, but just hypothetically), the cut off would be about 46...

ah yes, I keep forgetting about that very annoying aspect of this forum....

Panthers will take on the host team, # 5 Evansville tomorrow afternoon (3 pm CST) after the Purple Aces pulled off a 16-14 fifth set win over SIU just now.
Despite the small venue, the Evansville crowd was loud and raucous today, with a number...

and in the first drive of the second half, he sets the school (and conference) record for career made FGs.
Congrats, Mr. Cook!...

I wonder if they told him he had to sit for the first half for some reason or other...

Theo Day has moved into the top 5 in school history in a number of categories with this first half.

one negative note (for me, personally) is that there were no sacks by the UNI defense in that first half, so no free Big Mac as of yet (if...

I thought maybe they'd have run down the clock at the end of the first half and give Cook a chance to break the tie atop the school record board for made FG attempts (currently tied with Hallgren, I think). Maybe that'll happen in the 2nd half

MVC honors:
Bobbi is Coach of the Year
Sydney is Libero of the Year
Tayler is Setter of the Year

Inga and Carly join Tayler and Sydney on the All-Conference 1st team

(Drake claimed the other honors, with Haley...

such fairweather (non)fans at UNI...

horrid regardless of who the victims are/were...

She graduated high school in spring 2019, redshirted in fall 2019, played in the 2020-moved-to-spring-2021 season as well as the fall 2021 season and now 2022. That's only 3 seasons of competition with one of those not counting against the normal 4...

Panthers were able to secure the outright regular season MVC championship (and the # 1 seed for the tournament) tonight with a win over Missouri State. A fun way to send 6 seniors (including Kaylee Donner, who had to medically retire prior to the start...

SIU was # 14 in the nation (NCAA Division I) in Aces per Set going into yesterday. The NCAA stats page hasn't updated with yesterday's results, but SIU's updated ace per set average would bump them up to # 9 (though that obviously depends on how the...

They were able to pull it off in the end (barely), but my gosh that was difficult to watch.
So much struggle on serve receive. They gave up FIFTEEN aces (one SIU player had a whopping 6 of them).
Against a team who they beat 25-6 in the...

Definitely fun to see the success again.

That Drake match in a week-and-a-half will be a doozy (and the likely rematch in the MVC finals the week after that).
Since playing in Cedar Falls on Oct 11, the Bulldogs have won all 8 of their...

the first turnover wasn't that bad. If that pass had fallen incomplete instead of getting picked, we would have punted. possibly pinned them deep, but a good chance of them getting it at the 20 (or busting a return, which they seemed to be doing on...

the Division I FCS football championship IS the highest level of championship football that is sanctioned by the NCAA....