Undertow Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 2021 AVCA PRESEASON COACHES POLL 1. Texas 2. Wisconsin 3. Kentucky 4. Washington 5. Nebraska 6. Florida 7. Minnesota 8. Purdue 9. Pittsburgh 10. Baylor 11. Ohio State 12. Penn State 13. Louisville 14. Oregon 15. BYU 16. Western Kentucky 17. UCLA 18. Washington State 19. Utah 20. San Diego 21. Stanford 22. Pepperdine 23. Rice 24. Georgia Tech 25. Notre Dame A couple of quick thoughts. Washington and Kentucky are ranked too high. Washington made the final four last year, but struggled in all the rounds to advance in the tournament. I would label last years Huskies results more fortuitous than an indicator of team strength. Still the best in the PAC-12 and likely a regional final team. Out of all the top teams, Kentucky lost the most including their All-American setter Madison Lilley. They are still a top ten team but behind Florida in the SEC. Utah still has opposite All-American Danni Drews but lost a ton of talent due to transfer or seniors not taking advantage of their COVID eligibility. USC is better than the Utes who will be out of the top 25 and a borderline tournament team. Stanford starting out at 21 is odd, but that is largely a result of their disastrous COVID campaign where they finished 2-8 and out of the tournament for the first time --- ever. They are still uber talented but will need to find some leadership out of all that talent. McClure (OH), who provided what leadership they had last year, is gone. While the top 6 teams in the B1G should slot in the top 12 as the poll currently has it, I would quibble with the order. Nebraska should be number 3 behind Wisconsin then I would have Purdue, Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota (in that order) somewhere in that top 12. To be clear, there is not a ton of separation among the six. All should be good enough to host on the opening weekend of the tournament. Illinois will also make the tournament and might have a good enough record to squeeze into the bottom of the 25 list. All this is with the caveat that pre-season polls don't mean much. But, like football, it's an indicator that the season is right around the corner and a good topic to get the fans engaged. 2 Quote Link to comment
okaive Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Does anyone have a good poster of the VB season games? Would like to put it next to my football poster to collect wins/losses. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 First time out of the Top 10 since...??? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 There's my answer... Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 20 minutes ago, Mavric said: We dropped from 12 to 21 after sweeping our last 3 games? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 17 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: We dropped from 12 to 21 after sweeping our last 3 games? Sorry, the AVCA poll is different than the RPI rankings. New AVCA poll comes out later this morning. I probably should have made a new thread for the RPI. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 16 minutes ago, Mavric said: Sorry, the AVCA poll is different than the RPI rankings. New AVCA poll comes out later this morning. I probably should have made a new thread for the RPI. Ahhh...didn't realize it was two different rankings. Quote Link to comment
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