TT @ ISU Gameday
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We’re going home a winner! ISU 25-18, 3-1.
I know you have tickets but I have 4 to anyone interested in going for the cost of nothing. In section 133 row 7 seats 5,6,7,8. Thanks.
Set 1 and 2 ISU looked good. Set 3 it felt like either the sets were off or hitters out of position, a lot of missed attacks. It was nice to see CJL swap out Goosby when her she looked tired and serves were off. Faith brought in a nice extra power to that last set.
From my amateur perspective, it looked like Texas Tech had more talent, but we were more disciplined, particularly knowing where to be on defense and setting up hits. It seemed like a lot of our hits went out of bounds, but our hits were set up better. Also, we had a much better knack for the little taps over the net. Tech seemed to make many more dumb mistakes.
TT does have more talent this season and while they have more front row length than ISU, the athleticism and skill of ISU ended up prevailing.
It is tough to recall a match that ISU won where CJL made more successful pre-match & in-match scheme and personnel changes than what she did last night. That included switching in-match from the 6-2 to 5-1, benching Duckworth, having Martin play DS upon the switch to 5-1, shuffling Jackson/Wachholz/DeRonde in & out of the rotation and somewhat surprisingly, starting Hanfelt at MB (and playing her on back row as well) to replace the injured AHW (instead of starting Jackson at MB and Wachholz at RS). And Hanfelt played great for the most part.
Yes, I agree. the 4th set it the line-up for the Cyclones was more defensive minded and it was evident with all of the rallies that were happening.
Did anyone else wonder if Duckworth is nursing an injury? She seemed off last night, but when she couldn't place the ball like she normally is a magician at doing, she still didn't seem to hit as hard as she normally can.
Next match up is with UCF, I know they have a new coach this year but I don't know a lot about them. They did take Colorado to 5 in Boulder in very close sets last night. **Colorado should have been ranked this week, whether it be at 24 or 25.** But to be honest, the sets in the Big 12 were all pretty close on Wednesday and Thursday, with only a couple of exceptions.
TTech didn’t have a scouting report on her, but Reagan just looked comfortable and from what we’ve seen so far “gets it”. Especially impressed with her out of system bump sets.
