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I asked about the travel on VT, and a usually reliable poster said Hambly had said at a chalk talk that they would fly home after SMU and head to Pittsburgh later in the week.

In the 2nd set at 12-11 (and repeated at 1-0 in the 3rd), the announcers said "Stanford, in the midst of a week-long road trip, will stay here in Dallas for a few more days and then head to Pittsburgh."

It concerns me if the players (and their teachers) didn't plan for this extended absence until the last minute. (But, for the sake of the volleyball performance, blowing off going to classes is probably better, given that Stanford WVB is in the ACC and has to travel so much. Sigh.)

While so much was made of the service errors by Stanford (and the woman announcer miss-stated what Hambly said about them), Stanford's slide-out percentage was 65.8% (SMU 60.7%).   (In the SMU-Pitt match that SMU won, the SO% were 55.2%(SMU) and 59.4%)

Btw, I thought our digs were really good.

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I asked about the travel on VT, and a usually reliable poster said Hambly had said at a chalk talk that they would fly home after SMU and head to Pittsburgh later in the week.

In the 2nd set at 12-11 (and repeated at 1-0 in the 3rd), the announcers said "Stanford, in the midst of a week-long road trip, will stay here in Dallas for a few more days and then head to Pittsburgh."

It concerns me if the players (and their teachers) didn't plan for this extended absence until the last minute. (But, for the sake of the volleyball performance, blowing off going to classes is probably better, given that Stanford WVB is in the ACC and has to travel so much. Sigh.)

While so much was made of the service errors by Stanford (and the woman announcer miss-stated what Hambly said about them), Stanford's slide-out percentage was 65.8% (SMU 60.7%).   (In the SMU-Pitt match that SMU won, the SO% were 55.2%(SMU) and 59.4%)

Btw, I thought our digs were really good.