[Husker] Congratulations!

[Theodore Heise]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, RMiller wrote:

>  It certainly was an exciting match. I haven't seen Stanford play 
> at all this year, but I think it's fair to say they've played 
> better than that. I'm sure the large raucous crowd had something 
> to do with their results.

Okay, I have to ask about this line of thinking.  After the match 
last night the commentators said (a couple of times) that Stanford 
hadn't played up to their potential.  That's more than likely true, 
but isn't much of that due to good play by Nebraska?


>    The Pac-10 placed 3 of the 4 teams in the Final Four and from 
> what I've seen, they clearly play better defense than any other 
> conference in the country. Almost every long rally went Stanford's 
> way in last night's game. At least in the semi, Nebraska was 
> almost the equal of UCLA. The difference in last night's game was 
> the big arm of Sarah Pavan and the surprisingly effective hitting 
> of Jordan Larson. Did she win the MVP from the match?

Good points.  I would qualify Nebraska being almost UCLA's equal in 
terms of long rallys.  Overall they were UCLA's superior--after all, 
they won the match against UCLA.

I didn't see a final match MVP named, but Pavan got MVP of the 
tournament.


>    I'd also like to compliment Holloway on her effort. She clearly 
> struggled and wasn't nearly as effective as the semi, but she kept 
> hanging tough and made the critical sets. If she had a better 
> night, the middles would have been much more effective and it 
> probably would not have been as nail biting. She's just going to 
> get so much better after her freshman campaign. If the coach can 
> find an acceptable replacement for the libero, next year's team 
> should be almost unstoppable. Congratulations to the team on a 
> wire to wire #1 finish!

Yes indeed.  I commented to my wife last night that this team only 
has two seniors--Busboom being one of them.  They should have an 
awesome amount of talent returning next year!

-- 
Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA