Hawaii at No. 8 in poll
September 24th, 2012
By Cindy Luis
By Cindy Luis
Oregon’s wins last week jumped the Ducks to No. 2 and pushed a few teams down
1. Penn State, based on everyone else losing, moved up from 4.
3. USC down from 2
4. UCLA down from 1
5. Washington stays put
6. Nebraska drops from 3
8. Hawaii down from 7
9. Texas stays put
10. Minnesota up from 12
11. Undefeated BYU up from 16.
avca.org/divisions/division-one-women/poll-9-24-12di/
Volleyshots
Hawai’i Small Schools…
Tonight, (Laie) for conference supremacy:
#13 @ #12
Who’s 7?
Stanford at #7
I get Oregon jumping over UH,they were only 53 points behind us but #2 is kind of ridicules, lets see how long they stay #2
They will stay at No. 2 as long as they keep winning. and if Penn State loses, they would move to No. 1. Agree. let’s see where they are in a few weeks.
As I wrote in the previous link (see “Undefeateds Drop to 3 Out of 330 NCAA D-1 Teams”), the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll picked Oregon to finish 4th in the league. Only twice before in the Ducks’ 27 years of playing in the conference has the coaches picked UO to finish as high as 4th. These coaches know something about this year’s version of Team Shawn Olmstead.
As for Oregon staying at #2 “as long as they keep winning,” probably but not necessarily so. The Talls (as I call them) will host two Pac-12 opponents that are unranked, while Washington will take on UCLA and USC this same week.
Should Washington win both matches, I can see the AVCA voters putting U-Dub ahead of the Ducks, even if UO also wins.
As far as I’m concerned, the big news was the Cougars, which has now swept 11 of the 14 teams it has slaughtered. And in BYU’s case, the WCC coaches were way off base, calling this league a 3-team race (St. Mary’s, San Diego, and Pepperdine) that will go down to the last week of conference play.
They wont stay top ten long that usc win was a fluke, usc was obviously having a letdown after the ucla win.
I can see why they jumped to #2 since they swept and beat then Ranked #2 USC @ USC who was unbeaten @ that point and the Cardinals beat then #1 UCLA Bruins…. There’s definitely a-lot of shuffling around especially with with everyone beating everyone… what truley matters is who peaks and plays that solid games come the play-offs.
We only moved down to number 8. Thats terrific considering how we played in two out of three of our road matches…..
Coaches are pretty much looking at records, not how pretty it was.
true, coaches don’t have time to investigate “how” a team played.
Hawaii is very fortunate to drop one spot after two 3-2 wins.
well everyone else is losing and the Wahine won. the win over Stanford still carrying some weight.
I wrongly expected the voters to vote undefeated BYU and Minnesota ahead of us. BYU swept #14 Pepperdine and Minnesota swept at #20 Illinois. Cindy you must be right regarding the Stanford win still carrying weight with the voters….
Dave voted his on team at #10,get a rope.
I’m sure he’s looking at what all is going on, seeing who all is losing ahead of him. I see nothing wrong with his vote. where would you rank them.
Vinny, please be civil.
Ouch! Why is “Vinny” so upset?….
Toyota Auto Body is REALLY good, they got ball terminators.
Wahine’ will be very busy digging balls
Really? Awesome; in that case, I’m definitely going to buy tickets!
Must be hard voting…..so many ranked teams (highly ranked) teams losing.
Setaone, i have a hard time some times when voting on VB Mag. and it’s only top 20 with just 10 voters.
This is what the polls look like, with my vote, from this week. Where I have problems is after the top 12 or so.
AVCA VBM CL
1. Penn State Penn State Penn State
2. Oregon Oregon Oregon
3. USC USC USC
4. UCLA UCLA UCLA
5. Washington Nebraska Washington
6. Nebraska Washington Nebraska
7. Stanford Stanford Stanford
8. Hawaii Texas Texas
9. Texas Hawaii Hawaii
10 Minnesota Minnesota BYU
11. BYU BYU Minnesota
12. Florida Florida Purdue
13. Purdue Purdue Florida
14. Florida St Louisville San Diego
15. Kansas St. Florida State Kansas State
16. San Diego Kansas State Florida State
17. Louisville San Diego Pepperdine
18. Pepperdine Pepperdine Louisville
19. Iowa State Iowa State Dayton
20. Dayton Michigan St. Michigan State
http://www.dailybreeze.com/preps/ci_21624688/freshman-norene-iosia-gives-redondo-girls-volleyball-team
Possible future wahine? I heard earlier UH coaches were interested in her.
Her club coach is UCLA assistant. She’s taken a visit to UCLA. I think if the Bruins want her, likely that would be her first choice.
Don’t know how much interest UH has but they’re always interested in top players so …. Does UH need another setter at that point. Maybe.
Warriorfan, I read about Norene Iosia and she sounds impressive. But that’s four years from now that she’ll be a college freshman and by then UCLA will graduate its current setter and will be ready for a new one while Hawaii will have other setters and may not have room for her. Who knows what will happen four years from now? The article said she paid a visit to UCLA.
Thanks VBF, think we were posting similar thoughts at the same time.
She’s not as impressive as Higgins as a matter of fact she isn’t impressive at all but anyone or anything who is Samoan is impressive the Hawaii`i fans
Vinny, the story was from the Torrance paper, which decided she was worth a story i’d say impressive enough for a freshman. not like the Hawaii fans wrote it. Higgins, a senior, has had a few more years to pick up some cred and credentials.