2009 Polls

[SpanglerFan316]

Volleyball Magazine Preseason Top 20
1. Penn State
2. Texas
3. Nebraska
4. Washington
5. Stanford
6. California
7. Hawaii
8. Minnesota
9. Florida
10. UCLA
11. Iowa State
12. USC
13. Illinois
14. Oregon
15. Michigan
16. San Diego
T17. Wichita State
T17. Saint Louis
19. Utah
20. Santa Clara


AVCA Top 25
1 Penn State (52) 1487 38-0 1
2 Texas (6) 1405 29-4 4
3 Nebraska 1345 31-3 3
4 Washington (2) 1330 27-5 5
5 Stanford 1283 31-4 2
6 California 1215 26-7 6
7 Hawai'i 1036 31-4 7
8 Florida 1020 27-4 10
9 UCLA 961 22-11 8
10 Illinois 919 26-8 11
11 Minnesota 904 27-7 14
12 Southern California 852 17-12 13
13 Iowa State 786 22-13 12
14 Oregon 727 25-9 9
15 San Diego 554 23-5 19
16 Michigan 530 26-9 17
17 Utah 505 26-6 16
18 Wichita State 402 30-2 18
19 Purdue 386 26-9 15
20 Saint Louis 354 29-5 21
21 Kentucky 288 26-6 22
22 Kansas State 213 24-8 20
23 Long Beach State 190 26-6 23
24 Colorado State 170 23-7 24
25 Santa Clara 102 18-10 25


Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Pepperdine 75; Duke 53; Texas A&M 45; Wisconsin 43; Western Michigan 37; New Mexico State 28; Wright State 24; St. Mary's (Ca.) 23; UC Irvine 22; Tulane 21; Ohio 20; LSU 19; Arizona 18; Cal Poly 18; Tennessee 16; Louisville 15; Michigan State 9; San Francisco 8; Baylor 5; Missouri State 5; Oklahoma 5; Middle Tennessee 4; Rice 3

[SpanglerFan316]

http://www.avca.org/includes/media/docs/DIPoll8-18-09.pdf

http://volleytalk.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=27659&page=1

http://www.richkern.com/vb/rankings/rankw.asp?VBYear=2009&Div=DI&poll=d1wvb&week=0-Aug+18&sort=team&avg=all

RichKern.com Poll for Week of Aug 18
1 Penn State 535
2 Texas 524
3 Washington 491
4 Nebraska 490
5 California 455
6 Stanford 447
7 Florida 424
8 Minnesota 404
9 Hawaii 396
10 Illinois 353
11 UCLA 350
11 USC 350
13 Iowa State 346
14 Oregon 300
15 San Diego 296
16 Michigan 262
17 Saint Louis 223
18 Wichita State 220
19 Utah 219
20 Kentucky 179
21 Purdue 137
22 Long Beach State 107
22 Pepperdine 107
24 Santa Clara 83
25 Colorado State 79
26 Saint Marys 75
27 Arizona 55
28 Western Michigan 54
29 Kansas State 44
29 New Mexico State 44


Others receiving votes
31 Texas A&M 43
32 Cal Poly 42
33 Louisville 41
34 Wisconsin 38
35 Baylor 31
36 Duke 29
37 UC Irvine 14
38 Ohio 12
39 Michigan State 10
40 Middle Tennessee 10
41 Oregon State 9
42 San Francisco 8
42 Tulane 8
45 Cincinnati 6
46 New Mexico 5
47 Oklahoma 3
49 Missouri 1
49 Tennessee 1

[SpanglerFan316]

http://www.avca.org/articles/index.cfm?action=view&articleID=2634&menuID=92

http://www.goshockers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7500&ATCLID=204777272

[1972Shocker]

About what you would expect. The main difficulty the Shocks will have in moving up is that they do not play anyone ranked above them and so will have to rely on the teams above them losing to teams ranked close to or below the Shocks.

OTOH, based on these rankings the Shocks should be the favorite in all of their matches (with the exception of the exhibition vs the Italian National team).

No doubt the road matches at Louisville (the Big East favorite) and at Rice (whose setter is the preseason co-POY and is joined by 3 other teammates on the 12-member preseason All-Conference team) will be plenty tough as will the home match vs OU. All 3 teams received some votes in the polls.

Italy will have an obvious height advantage, as five of the players on the 12-member roster are listed 6-3 or taller, including 6-8 opposite hitter Valentina Diouf. Nevertheless, this will be a great tune-up leading into the MVC Tournament.

Pitt (17-14 in 2008) who is picked to finish in the middle of the 15 team Big East and had a successful spring including a win over K-State, UNC (22-11) who is picked to finish 4th this year in the ACC after finishing as co-champs last year, and So. Carolina (21-9) who is picked 4th in the SEC East will no doubt bring some quality athletes to bear in what should be solid challenges for the Shocks.

Unfortunately, just about any loss will knock the Shocks down in the rankings. Is another perfect regular season too much to ask? It probably is. After all last year was the 1st such season in a team sport in WSU history. Then again, why not set your sights as high as possible. Let's go for it Shocks.

:goshocks:

[WuDrWu]

I guess we'll see a slight bump next week.

http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/938346.html

[SFL]

To heck with a new logo... we need to completely rename the university. :D

[1972Shocker]

Alwright!

[Shox151]

not sure if this has been posted, i've looked a little, but a friend of mine that is still a student says that one of the volleyball players (at least he thought) since she was with a group of players for sure, was on crutches today in the student center, anyone know who that could be?

edit ** i've had to move to Nebraska and haven't been able to follow the team much this summer

[SpanglerFan316]

not sure if this has been posted, i've looked a little, but a friend of mine that is still a student says that one of the volleyball players (at least he thought) since she was with a group of players for sure, was on crutches today in the student center, anyone know who that could be?

Yes. Several people here know who it is.

ADDED: Such information should be announced by the coaching staff.

[SpanglerFan316]

http://www.volleyballmag.com/archive/2009/Poll.php

Volleyball Magazine 2009 NCAA Women's Preseason Poll

"This article allows us to learn a little about most of the top teams. So peruse this so we can more intelligently debate the teams and players. Enjoy. " (http://volleytalk.proboards.com/inde...y&thread=27692)

[1972Shocker]

#5 Stanford down 1-2 against unranked LSU at Notre Dame.

LSU did gets some votes in one of the polls.

Edit: Stanford wins Sets 4 and 5 to come back for a very tough 3-2 win over LSU on a nuetral court.