Shockers Finish Regular Season @ Indiana State & @ Illinois State

[1972Shocker]

Illinois State completes he comeback with a 15-9 win to stay undefeated.

[flyingMoose]

Other Friday scores

Evansville 0-3 Southern Illinois

Bradley 0-3 Northern Iowa
... but the first two sets were 22 and 24

Loyola 3-2 Drake

Illinois State 3-2 Missouri State
... the Redbirds finally come to life: 21-25, 24-26, 25-17, 25-22, 15-9
... a back-and-forth fifth set: 5-1, 7-8, 15-9

[1972Shocker]

Shocks have locked up the #3 seed in the Valley Tournament. They still have a shot a the #2 seed but they would have to upset Illinois State tomorrow and Loyola would have to upset UNI. I am not expecting UNI to lose but they did struggle a little with Bradley tonight in the 1st two sets so you never know.

[JayJ79]

ILS is locked in the #1 seed (which we already knew)
UNI and WSU are tied for 2nd, though it would take a Shocker win in Normal and a Panther loss in Chicago for WSU to get the #2 seed.
MSU is locked into the #4 seed
SIU has a half-match lead for the #5 seed (having finished their regular season at 10-8)
INS can get the #5 seed if they can upset MSU in the finale (would hold the "power rating" tiebreak), otherwise they will be #6

UNI's side of the bracket will play the latter match on Thurs. and Fri.
So the MVC tournament schedule looks like this as of now:

Thursday 11/27 - quarterfinals
5 pm: #4 Missouri State vs. #5 [SIU or INS]
7:30 pm: #3 [WSU or UNI] vs. #6 [INS or SIU]

Friday 11/28 - semifinals
5 pm: #1 Illinois State vs. 4/5 winner
7:30 pm: #2 [UNI or WSU] vs. 3/6 winner

Saturday 11/29 - championship
4 pm: semifinal winners

I believe all matches are on ESPN3, not sure if the final will be broadcast elsewhere or not

[WuDrWu]

In the last few weeks, WSU has found a way to put the ball down with some frequency, and, somehow, without Mikaela Raudsepp. If they can continue the trend, I like their chances against UNI, if they get to the Panthers. Always tough to win in Cedar Falls, and I'm not saying they will win, but they have a better chance than most recent matches. The Panthers are still in their heads though, so they're going to have to overcome that.

[flyingMoose]

Perhaps only because it is Senior Night, but the national anthems of Australia (Eliza Smith) and New Zealand (Stacey Niao) were sung before the tonight's match with Illinois State.

[Rixtoy1]

Is the match being broadcast?

[flyingMoose]

Is the match being broadcast?

http://www.goshockers.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&id=1241297&catid=0&KEY=&DB_OEM_ID=7500

[flyingMoose]

5-9 and the Shockers take their first timeout.

13-20 and we take the second timeout.

[flyingMoose]

Set 1

Illinois State 25-15 Shockers

They hit .283, and we hit .065.

[flyingMoose]

Mikaela in the starting lineup for Ashlyn in the second set.

[flyingMoose]

From 11-15, the Shocks tie the game at 15 and bring on a Redbird timeout.

The Shockers finally take a lead in this set, 20-19, and the Redbirds take their second timeout after another Shocker point.

Jenny's swing for the set is long, we are tied at 24, and Lambo burns his first timeout.

[flyingMoose]

Set 2

Illinois State 27-25 Shockers

Mash had several kills late, but the Shocks could not bring it home.

The percentages are now .260 and .141.

[flyingMoose]

Ashlyn is back in the starting lineup for the third set.

The Shocks are out to an 8-5 lead and cause a Redbird timeout.

After ISUr gets an 18-16 lead, Lambo takes his first timeout.

[JayJ79]

MSU pulls out a closely fought 5-setter at Indiana State: 26-28 25-23 29-27 18-25 15-10
SIU will get the #5 seed (and face #4 seed MSU in the first quarterfinal), Indiana State will get the #6 seed and most likely be WSU's quarterfinal opponent