WSU Hosts Northern Iowa - Friday, Oct 26th - Buy 1, Get 1 Free

[bunck]

Update on Facebook said that 5,100 tickets had been sold to that point.

Pretty awesome, 20 minutes ago they said they were at 5200 and need less than 1000 to break the record and I'm going to be getting 4 when I get there.

[WuDrWu]

Absolutely LOVE what they've done on Facebook today with the marketing. That's 3 video updates from the girls today. Excellent job by the marketing department.

More please!

Go Shocks!

[ShockerFever]

Wow, that's awesome. We haven't got our tickets yet either. Looks like we're gonna have to get up there a little earlier than originally thought.

I really hope this big crowd will push the ladies over the top and not do the opposite effect where UNI's ladies get pumped for a crowd so large they've never seen at a men's basketball game before.

[1972Shocker]

Now we just need the students to show up in big numbers.

[JayJ79]

I really hope this big crowd will push the ladies over the top and not do the opposite effect where UNI's ladies get pumped for a crowd so large they've never seen at a men's basketball game before.

Will be the biggest crowd UNI has played in front of this year. And the biggest road crowd they've played in front of for a while.
But last season they played in front of a crowd of 6490 when they hosted Iowa State.

In other news, the radio station that normally carries UNI volleyball matches suffered a power outage this afternoon (and is currently off-air). Guess I might have to tune into shocker radio online

[Volleyballfan]

I agree that the marketing has been great this year. The quality of the pregame video is the best I've seen yet for volleyball. And then let's not forget the "Call Me Maybe" video shown at the 101 dinner. It appears that the team is having quite a bit of fun with technology this year. Love it!

[SpanglerFan316]

UNI outplayed WSU. Great crowd and a lot of fun (except the outcome).

[flyingMoose]

Great crowd ...

5812, according to Mike on the post-game show.

Lambo said UNI just had too much firepower. They hit .362 (or something close to that), better than they hit in the previous meeting. He found that disappointing, since he thought we were better prepared.

Missouri State beat Bradley, 3-1. Creighton beat Evansville, 3-0. Southern Illinois beat Drake, 3-1.

[WuDrWu]

UNI is in our heads. The pregame video was a bad idea. It fired up UNI and it served little but to remind EVERYONE that we can't beat UNI.

Not saying UNI isn't better. They are. But they aren't that much better, and not on our court.

Any reason we decided to throw Jordan Loney to the wolves tonight? Don't get me wrong, I love seeing her on the court, but our back up setter who has played about 10 points all year tossed in against the best team in the Valley?

I'll hang up and listen.

Thanks to all the fans that were there....I know Lambo was disappointed they didn't put on a better show for those 1st timers in attendance. Fantastic crowd, but nobody should hit north of .360 against us that isn't named Texas, Penn State or Nebraska.

[SpanglerFan316]

Our attendance is now 2896. The list as of October 21 was

1	Hawaii	94,488	14	6,749
2	Nebraska	44,197	10	4,420
3	Penn St.	31,015	9	3,446
4	Wisconsin	26,091	8	3,261
5	Minnesota	31,913	10	3,191
6	Illinois	24,012	8	3,002
7	UNI	22,880	8	2,860
8	Florida	29,376	11	2,671
9	Louisville	39,514	15	2,634
10	Purdue	26,155	10	2,616
11	Wichita St.	17,362	7	2,480
12	Texas	28,461	12	2,372
13	Iowa St.	21,296	9	2,366
14	UMES	11,383	5	2,277
15	Colorado St.	28,642	13	2,203

If we get more than 2568 to the match tomorrow against Bradley, we will be ahead of UNI in the next weekly attendance report.

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Stats/Womens+Volleyball/Attendance/attendance.html

ADDED: We had 2087 at the Bradley match. This gives WSU 25,261 fans at 9 matches, for an average attendance of 2806. Since UNI was on the road, their attendance will not change.

[ShockerFever]

I really thought we were gonna pull that first set off. If that would have happened, things would have likely been different. As it stands, UNI was the better team and obviously played the better game. WSU just seemed out of sync and could never get an extended rally going, save for the near first-set comeback.

I totally agree with Doc about the pregame video. While it seems marketing and videos have been on the upswing this year, that video itself was not a good one. When it played, I mentioned to the Mrs. that may actually fire up UNI more than it will WSU. I like the "thinking outside the box" ideas, but that one was a bit much and really showed UNI's domination over WSU and the Valley lately.

Great crowd. It was nice to see the support there. Just a shame that there wasn't a chance for them to explode tonight.

[1972Shocker]

Great crowd. Kudos to Shocker fans. Unfortunately, the Lady Shocks were simply out-classed tonight by a very solid, well coached UNI team.

As I have said before UNI will rarely beat themselves. In order to beat them, you have to play very clean volleyball and make them earn everything. The Shocks fell well short of their best effort in that regard tonight.

I have to admit I enjoy watching UNI play volleyball, especially the way they play defense. Seems like every player they put on the floor can dig the ball and they all seem to be perfectly positioned. On top of that they play very hard and are relentless. The Shocks simply were unable to match UNI.

Probably the poorest match I can remember from Emily Adney. However, I think credit for that belongs mostly to UNI.

A great opportunity for the Shocks goes by the board. Not much, if any, room for error now for the Lady Shocks if they want to go dancing this year.

[JayJ79]

Not much, if any, room for error now for the Lady Shocks if they want to go dancing this year.

unfortunately, I don't know if ANY MVC teams can really feel comfortable with their at-large chances. If Creighton wins out (in the regular season), they'd probably be an at-large lock. But I'm hoping that doesn't happen (obviously). Outside of that scenario, I'm thinking that any of the top 3 teams (WSU, UNI, CU) that don't win the conference tourney will be nervous on selection sunday.

[1972Shocker]

unfortunately, I don't know if ANY MVC teams can really feel comfortable with their at-large chances. If Creighton wins out (in the regular season), they'd probably be an at-large lock. But I'm hoping that doesn't happen (obviously). Outside of that scenario, I'm thinking that any of the top 3 teams (WSU, UNI, CU) that don't win the conference tourney will be nervous on selection sunday.

Perhaps, but at this stage of the game the Lady Shockers would clearly be more nervous than UNI or CU in that circumstance. But the Shocks still have a lot of work to do to avoid make winning the MVC Tournament an absolute for them. ILS on the road and MSU and CU at home all present tough challenges for the Shocks.

[1stThings1st]

Really good crowd
Great to have live music
High level of volleyball
UNI very impressive, well coached, better performance , big blocks, great digs, adjusted well to our big blocks - tipped us to a sweep, UNI passing quiskest we have seen this year which caused our defense to be sub-par
SHOX are top tier for the Valley just need to adust and execute to get where we want to be