Solid Hitting and Dominant Defense Produce Win at Troy

[Cajunrunner]

My daughter wants to attend next summer. This past summer, we sent her to the 3-day Texas A&M camp.

[Grantvb]

Correction. 32 AQ’s. 32 At-Large.

[Grantvb]

I’m curious about this as well. I just started following the volleyball team last season.

If you win your conference tournament, are you automatically in like basketball and base/softball? What about regular season champs?

Yes. Tournament winner is in. Then it’s at-large.

[Grantvb]

I’ll scan the mid majors standings tomorrow and see how we stack up. NCAA lists 330 D1 volleyball programs. They pick 64. You gotta be in the top 20%

[Grantvb]

From what I’ve seen from Mtn West, MAC, CUSA, Horizon and AAC; we’re ahead of about 95% of the teams. That leaves 21 conferences left. No need to compare against the P5s.

[Grantvb]

A10, Socon, A-Sun, Southland, has about 6 teams total that are AT or Better records than the Cajuns.

[Grantvb]

I think we’re gonna need a STRONG finish at conference tournament.

[RaginDave]

Pre last weekend our rpi was 158. We should move into the top 125 this week.

[Grantvb]

True Dave. On top of that, some of the < 125 RPI have horrible records. We’re talking 5-18, 10-14. Etc If the Cajuns can put up a string of wins to close the regular season and not get bumped in the Conference Tournament, we may have a shot.

[Grantvb]

Looking at the standings, if we were to tank against TxSt and UTA, we’d still finish no worse than 5th seed. That means an opening round game and would require 4 wins in a row to win the tournament. If we win the last two, we only need 2 wins to take the tournament so 4 wins either way. But single-digit losses on the year looks better.

[Grantvb]

Pre last weekend our rpi was 158. We should move into the top 125 this week.

No such luck. Our RPI only moved to 150. Texas state is at 74, ArkSt is at 93, Coastal Ca is at 105 and So Al is at 115. LSU is sitting at 35 with a 17-7 record. Western Kentucky is still kicking butt at 27-2 with a 32 RPI.
I’ll never forget WKU was ranked #29 and came to EKL in 2013. We took 3 of 5 sets from them and snapped a 38 game conference win streak.

[Turbine]

Got to get it done in the tourney.

Geaux Cajuns