Give us Liberty (and give us Delaware or American!)
It’s the Big Dance with the Huge Ball in Rec Hall The Big Dance with the Huge Ball NCAA Tournament Central NCAA Interactive Tournament Bracket Starting at 7:30…
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Penn State Seeded #8 in NCAA Tournament (Big Dance with Huge Ball)
Penn State is in the Big Dance with the Huge Ball Penn State (#9 in last week’s AVCA Poll) emerged from Selection Sunday as the #8 seed in the 2011…
Read More“Easy Roads” to the NCAA Championship? Check the Maps
When They Want Our Opinion, They’ll Give it to Us Confirmation bias: a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether…
Read MoreHome Sweet Home? Charting the NCAA Tournament Records of Six Top Teams
We Were Curious We were curious, so we put together a series of charts looking at the NCAA Tournament performance in the 13-year period from 1998 to 2010, both home…
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2007 NCAA Replay: Neb., Stanford, PSU, TX, USC, FL, Cal, UCLA, and WA
Photo by Paul R. Kucher IV Overview Back in November, we looked at the recruiting classes from 2004 to 2009 that were signed by Florida, Nebraska, Penn State, Stanford, Texas, and USC. To look…
Read MoreVideo Jukebox Xmas Extra: Blair, Russ, Deja, Katie, Arielle & Alyssa
Photo courtesy of Frederic Pasteleurs, Wikipedia Commons Video Jukebox The Big Ten Network has posted four videos on Penn State’s 2010 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship — three are interviews following the Cal…
Read MoreFinal AVCA Poll: Do the Schools Care?
Final AVCA 2010 Poll: December 21, 2010 Yesterday, the American Volleyball Coaches Association released its final poll for the 2010 Season. To the surprise of noone,…
Read MorePenn State – Cal Wrap-Up (Groundhog Day)
Groundhog Day [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yDWQsrajA[/youtube] After last night’s 3-0 loss to Penn State (25-20, 27-25, 25-20), the California coaches and players could be forgiven if they felt a bit like Bill Murray in…
Read MoreParity? Final Four W-L Records 1998 to 2010
During the 2010 season, after Stanford put an end to “The Streak” by soundly beating Penn State in the inaugural Nike Big Four Volleyball Classic Gainseville, Florida, there…
Read MoreFour the Glory (PSU Sweeps Cal)
Penn State was written off by some early in the season, following losses to Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana. But never by Russ Rose and never by the players themselves. …
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