RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-16-2025
Yes. Not the #8 seed. Any team in the Nebraska regional will not get to the final four. This match with SMU I'm going to forget about and look forward to beating up on Cal Wednesday and Sunday.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-16-2025
(11-16-2025, 06:10 PM)paloalto Wrote: Tusher dressed to play and still with the indoor team. That's good. Although Parks was sitting on the sideline with the coaches she may be in concussion protocol the balance of the season.
Zero chance of being a #1 regional seed.
I wonder if there will be any ACC #1 seeds. Right now it is looking like Nebraska and 3 SEC teams (Kentucky, Texas, and Texas A&M), and possibly three ACC #2 seeds (Pitt, Louisville, Stanford). The match at Louisville to end the season looms large.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-16-2025
Stanford currently at NCAA (unofficial) RPI #7 and tie with SMU after this match. Unofficial is extremely close to official except it's updated constantly and official is updated once a week.
https://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi
RPI is .6933%. This may change ever so slightly by tomorrow morning.
Louisville at #9 with .6916%. Good chance one of these three teams ends up #8 or #9.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-16-2025
Two matches against #175 California is not going to help the RPI.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-16-2025
Correct. But winning is usually more fun than losing for fans and the team.
And Stanford has to play conference foe Cal. OTOH Wisconsin scheduled #343 Chicago State in non-conference. At the time they said it was to grow the sport.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
Spiny_Norman - 11-16-2025
It's disappointing to have had a favorable schedule this season, facing all of the other top ACC teams at home (Louisville, Pitt, SMU) and losing to 2 of them.
Stanford still has a chance to share the ACC title. But it will likely require winning at Louisville, a tall order.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-16-2025
Louisville is playing at Pitt on the 26th. Assuming that there are no other upsets…
If Pitt beats Louisville then we can get a tie for first with Pitt (and own the head-to-head) by winning at Louisville.
If Louisville beats Pitt, we can with the ACC outright with a win over Louisville.
Both scenarios require us to win at Louisville, where we were swept last year, and to whom we lost at home this year. As mentioned, a tall order.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
johnbar - 11-17-2025
Elsewhere, Pitt dropped their first set at Cal, but then won easily 3-1.
Texas (at home) dropped a set to South Carolina.
Louisville (at home) went five with Miami (reverse sweep).
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-17-2025
Big game against Cal on Wednesday. Will Logan Parks be dressed to play? My guess is no; she'll be out for two weeks, possibly through the NCAA tournament.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BobK - 11-17-2025
Parks did say she’s fine and was out signing autographs post game
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-17-2025
(11-17-2025, 03:23 PM)BobK Wrote: Parks did say she’s fine and was out signing autographs post game
That's good but there was a quite a difficult journey with Hodson claiming a concussion was not taken seriously. A trainer (or a doctor who is not a concussion specialist) giving a player two minutes of evaluation is not adequate to know if something in the brain was thrown off kilter.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-17-2025
Let’s just say that concussion protocols are unpredictable and that the timing of return to activities is highly variable. Given the NCAA’s concussion protocols, which has 6 steps before unrestricted return to sport, each of which happens at an interval of 24 hours, it is very unlikely that anyone in the concussion protocol would be participating in competition within a week.
So, almost certainly out for Big Game Wednesday (unless the diagnosis was overturned), very likely out for away game at Cal on Sunday (technically, this would be the earliest she could be back if she proceeds through the protocol without any issues whatsoever). Conceivably back for Georgia Tech or Louisville, but given the variable nature of recovery, very possible that her recovery will be longer, and, in fact, could leave her out for the rest of the year.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
Nobadeer - 11-17-2025
The KZSU audio of the Pitt match is online at the KZSU website!
I heard the fifth set live on the car radio while driving on Friday night and the replay is wonderfully goose-bumpy for sure. The last few minutes are unbridled youthful enthusiasm as the two LSJU undergrad announcers go berserk, yelling and screaming in sheer joy at each LSJU point during the second 3-point streak to tie it at 14 and then to win the match.
Go to:
https://kzsu.stanford.edu/showplayer/
Then type in Friday's date and click the Play arrow for the 9 pm segment, which is titled "Urban Innercity Experience" - that was the regularly scheduled program at 9 pm but instead it's the end of the W VB fourth set and then the fifth set, which starts at about minute 17 and concludes in high decibel shrieks at about minute 45!
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
mbdude - 11-17-2025
Was Parks actually placed in concussion protocol?
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-17-2025
Thanks Nobadeer. That was fun. Youthful exuberance. Objectivity out the window. The last few points were the best.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
johnbar - 11-17-2025
(11-17-2025, 05:43 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: The KZSU audio of the Pitt match is online at the KZSU website!
I heard the firth set live on the car radio while driving on Friday night and the replay is wonderfully goose-bumpy for sure. The last few minutes are unbridled youthful enthusiasm as the two LSJU undergrad announcers go berserk, yelling and screaming in sheer joy at each LSJU point during the second 3-point streak to tie it at 14 and then to win the match.
Go to:
https://kzsu.stanford.edu/showplayer/
Then type in Friday's date and click the Play arrow for the 9 pm segment, which is titled "Urban Innercity Experience" - that was the regularly scheduled program at 9 pm but instead it's the end of the W VB fourth set and then the fifth set, which starts at about minute 17 and concludes in high decibel shrieks at about minute 45!
Yes, I agree, that was fun to listen to.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-17-2025
Hillarious moment at the 39 minute mark, when Rubin’s kill off the block looked to be long. The male anouncer sounds audibly deflated at the initial call by the line judge sighing “awww”. The female announcer notes the call on the block and says “she got the touch” and then the male announcer admonishes Pitt for celebrating too early.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
paloalto - 11-17-2025
Quite a lot of controversy on another message board. Top ten 2027 prospect who had committed to a B1G school visited Stanford for a recent match with her parents and now has removed the B1G school from her Instagram bio. Stay tuned.
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
BostonCard - 11-18-2025
(11-17-2025, 10:08 PM)paloalto Wrote: Quite a lot of controversy on another message board. Top ten 2027 prospect who had committed to a B1G school visited Stanford for a recent match with her parents and now has removed the B1G school from her Instagram bio. Stay tuned.
LOL, not sure why the secrecy as volleytalk is a public board. In case anyone is wondering this thread makes allusions to it:
https://volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/36286/future-stanford?page=1807
Regardless, nothing is for certain until a recruit signs on the dotted line, and the early signing period for 2027s is not for another year.
BC
RE: 2025 Women’s Volleyball -
pauloalto - 11-18-2025
WVB Roster as of November 2025
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https://i.ibb.co/wrBPzZqC/WVB-Nov18-25-B.jpg
My understanding is that the roster limit is set at 18. If I have made any mistakes, let me know!
(Thanks and a tip of the hat to PalmTree for catching my error)