11-23-2024, 05:20 PM
(11-23-2024, 02:38 AM)M T Wrote: Such a downer...
Did you count the number of free balls Duke sent to Stanford, or the number of tap downs at the net? Seems like there were a lot of those, but of course, those aren't available for blocks. 4 blocks (no errors) to Duke's 30 kills seems like a not-unreasonable ratio (13.3% blocks/opp. kills. For the season, Stanford has 20.2% blocks/opp. kills.)
Wound up at 5 aces versus 7 service errors. Not bad either.
Duke was clearly overmatched. Duke did have a good set 2. My guess is that once Stanford got down, Stanford tried too hard. But when you look at the stats, Stanford had 23 kills in set 2 and 2 errors for a hitting% of 0.535 (why do they call it a percentage, and not multiply by 100??).
Technically, the percentage would be 53.5%. This ends today’s pedantry.
