“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…
Read MoreUpdate: Brown Gives PSU a Honda Volleyball Award Three-Peat
[polldaddy poll=4365126] Penn State’s 2010 Women’s Volleyball season was capped by a so-called “Four-Peat” — a fourth consecutive NCAA Championship. Today it was announced that former (that will take some getting used to)…
Read More2011 Unofficial Penn State Women’s Volleyball Roster
Here’s the unofficial, unconfirmed, subject to change roster for the 2011 Penn State Women’s Volleyball team. The table is sortable. To reorder a column, click on the arrows…
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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 MoreWomen’s Sports: Media (Coverage) Matters
Last week was an extraordinary one for women’s sports: the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team won its 4th Consecutive NCAA National Championship (Penn State won the championship in…
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 MoreFour Fabulous Freshmen: Fawcett, Hodge, Dorton, and McClendon
We were curious about how four fabulous Penn State outside hitters – Nicole Fawcett, Megan Hodge, Darcy Dorton, and Deja McClendon compared, statistically, as Freshman. An obvious problem…
Read MoreDigNittanyVolleyball TV: Cal vs. Penn State (and Russ Rose’s Sweater)
DigNittany Volleyball TV News: Episode 4 Our DigNittanyVolleyball TV News team, Pablo Arpihai and Erin Bracket discuss the extraordinary victory by the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team over…
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