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I'd be interested in a replay of this match only to see how Francis got injured.  I wasn't watching at the instant the injury happened.  I don't know if an opponent's foot came under the net and she stepped on it or she rolled her ankle based on her own motion.   I assume it was a minor issue because having Francis healthy for the tournament is a higher priority than this match was.

I don’t recall that the video included her feet. I believe she just came down wrong. She may have run into Kipp( IIRC) but I don’t think so.  She seemed quite a distance from the net so highly unlikely to be an opponent. As you know she came back in a set later. 

The USC live stream announcers were pretty reasonable. They were very complimentary to our team and individuals. It seemed they completely blew the first challenge.  The video showed the up ref signaled the point for Stanford & we were back to serve when the announcers seemed confused and said Stanford had challenged. But overall they were ok. 

They reported that Stanford is really good on their recieves because they face their own servers at every practice. 

One stat they said was that Kipp has only 5 solo blocks of her 338 blocks. 

And, yes, I did see at least one left-side block but I wasn’t looking for them.

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I'd be interested in a replay of this match only to see how Francis got injured.  I wasn't watching at the instant the injury happened.  I don't know if an opponent's foot came under the net and she stepped on it or she rolled her ankle based on her own motion.   I assume it was a minor issue because having Francis healthy for the tournament is a higher priority than this match was.

I don’t recall that the video included her feet. I believe she just came down wrong. She may have run into Kipp( IIRC) but I don’t think so.  She seemed quite a distance from the net so highly unlikely to be an opponent. As you know she came back in a set later. 

The USC live stream announcers were pretty reasonable. They were very complimentary to our team and individuals. It seemed they completely blew the first challenge.  The video showed the up ref signaled the point for Stanford & we were back to serve when the announcers seemed confused and said Stanford had challenged. But overall they were ok. 

They reported that Stanford is really good on their recieves because they face their own servers at every practice. 

One stat they said was that Kipp has only 5 solo blocks of her 338 blocks. 

And, yes, I did see at least one left-side block but I wasn’t looking for them.