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The Shocks head out on the road for the 6th time in 7 weeks and head back to the East Coast since the opening weekend of the season. Hard to say if all of this travel has had a negative impact on this young Shocker team or not.
IIRC Lambo finished his radio show Monday with a comment that this weekend will tell us a lot about this team (or at least maybe it will tell him a lot).
USF has a very good record of 13-3 but their non-conference schedule has not been particularly strong. The have won 3 in a row with a non-con win over North Florida and AAC sweeps over Memphis (20, 11, 22) and Tulane (23, 21, 25) all on the road. Prior to those 3 matches they lost to travel partner UCF at home in 5 sets (they lost Set 4 23-25 to push the match to a 5th set and then lost that set 10-15).
The Shocks swept Memphis 18, 21 and 24 and they beat Tulane in 5 sets 18, (17),17, (19) and 12.
UCF is 12-3 against a pretty good schedule for their 1st 6 matches but not so much in the next 6 matches. In addition, to their 5 set win over USF, they beat Tulane in 4-sets and swept Memphis all on the road. The Tulane scores were (15), 19, 21 and 20. The Memphis scores were 18, 14 and 18.
Looks live video is available for the UCF match (as far as I can tell at no charge).
The weekend is an opportunity for the Shocks to jump start the rest of their season and position themselves for a good finish in the AAC. OTOH, it also has the potential to perhaps change the focus to building for next year and beyond although maybe it is a little too early for that (or maybe not).
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IIRC Lambo finished his radio show Monday with a comment that this weekend will tell us a lot about this team (or at least maybe it will tell him a lot).
USF has a very good record of 13-3 but their non-conference schedule has not been particularly strong. The have won 3 in a row with a non-con win over North Florida and AAC sweeps over Memphis (20, 11, 22) and Tulane (23, 21, 25) all on the road. Prior to those 3 matches they lost to travel partner UCF at home in 5 sets (they lost Set 4 23-25 to push the match to a 5th set and then lost that set 10-15).
The Shocks swept Memphis 18, 21 and 24 and they beat Tulane in 5 sets 18, (17),17, (19) and 12.
UCF is 12-3 against a pretty good schedule for their 1st 6 matches but not so much in the next 6 matches. In addition, to their 5 set win over USF, they beat Tulane in 4-sets and swept Memphis all on the road. The Tulane scores were (15), 19, 21 and 20. The Memphis scores were 18, 14 and 18.
Looks live video is available for the UCF match (as far as I can tell at no charge).
The weekend is an opportunity for the Shocks to jump start the rest of their season and position themselves for a good finish in the AAC. OTOH, it also has the potential to perhaps change the focus to building for next year and beyond although maybe it is a little too early for that (or maybe not).
Shocker Match Notes and Links
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