[ColoradoTree]

Awesome summary.  Thank you.  Looking forward to two more wins.

Thanks, Bob! I'm confident we'll get those two wins, though we should expect something in the neighborhood of a 5-2 match against ASU. Gordon will have a fight on her hands, but I like her chances to pull it out. It'll be the best test so far this season, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the matches get pushed to a third set.

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Oh, and Cal has been added to the schedule for Friday, April 16 at Stanford. So, the overall conference home-road breakdown this year is:

Home (5): Cal, UW, WSU, ASU, Arizona
Away (5): UCLA, USC, Oregon, Utah, Colorado

The only match that still might get added is a home match vs. Pepperdine the same weekend as the Oregon match, since otherwise the Ducks would be the only scheduled match (and, well, Pepperdine says they're playing us that weekend). I'm eager to see that Pepperdine match get played, because a win would be a brobdingnagian boost to our ranking and a loss barely hurts us. We could use the schedule help, that's for sure. If the rest of the season plays out as expected, I figure we'll be the 2 seed in the Pac-12 tournament behind UCLA, with Cal as the 3, ASU as the 4, USC as the 5, and then some combination of the rest after that. If things play to seed (and we play Pepperdine), we'll finish the season with 13 more matches, or 18 in total, including seeking revenge over UCLA in the Pac-12 final. That's not too terrible as an overall number, but if seeding is based on the traditional computer model, we'll only have 3 matches with teams that would be really valuable wins: UCLA twice and Pepperdine. Cal twice, ASU, and USC (assuming USC settles in and finds its form) are another four good ones, but that's really only seven Top 25-caliber matches--how many of those do we actually win?

Sure would be nice to get Blake back.

[ColoradoTree]

Awesome summary.  Thank you.  Looking forward to two more wins.

Thanks, Bob! I'm confident we'll get those two wins, though we should expect something in the neighborhood of a 5-2 match against ASU. Gordon will have a fight on her hands, but I like her chances to pull it out. It'll be the best test so far this season, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the matches get pushed to a third set.

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Oh, and Cal has been added to the schedule for Friday, April 16 at Stanford. So, the overall conference home-road breakdown this year is:

Home (5): Cal, UW, WSU, ASU, Arizona
Away (5): UCLA, USC, Oregon, Utah, Colorado

The only match that still might get added is a home match vs. Pepperdine the same weekend as the Oregon match, since otherwise the Ducks would be the only scheduled match (and, well, Pepperdine says they're playing us that weekend). I'm eager to see that Pepperdine match get played, because a win would be a brobdingnagian boost to our ranking and a loss barely hurts us. We could use the schedule help, that's for sure. If the rest of the season plays out as expected, I figure we'll be the 2 seed in the Pac-12 tournament behind UCLA, with Cal as the 3, ASU as the 4, USC as the 5, and then some combination of the rest after that. If things play to seed (and we play Pepperdine), we'll finish the season with 13 more matches, or 18 in total, including seeking revenge over UCLA in the Pac-12 final. That's not too terrible as an overall number, but if seeding is based on the traditional computer model, we'll only have 3 matches with teams that would be really valuable wins: UCLA twice and Pepperdine. Cal twice, ASU, and USC (assuming USC settles in and finds its form) are another four good ones, but that's really only seven Top 25-caliber matches--how many of those do we actually win?

Sure would be nice to get Blake back.