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Outside of the blockbuster
matches for PSU, there are some really interesting/ranked matchups in week 1.
MSU – Poly –
tough, tough matchup
Minn – Creighton - MVC
will be interesting this year, very balanced, IL St could end up winning it all
Xavier-OSU - Xavier lost
two solid players, but arguably was the 2nd best team in Ohio last
year after OU; OSU must step it up
NMSU-Illinois – wow,
tough matchup again, NMSU is very strong, even better than last year
Duke-Purdue – can the
Boilers integrate the pieces? Duke will give them a test.
Oregon-Illinois – no easy
task here, and the Illini must defend Huff much, much better than they did last
year
MSU-WSU – another interesting
MVC team
Minn- A&M –
A&M is much improved and will test the Gophers
Minn – LSU –
really difficult doubleheader; LSU is very good, big favorite in the SEC West
KSU – Purdue –
ditto – an even harder test for the Boilers than Duke
Wis – Ky –
beware Ky this year, better than many think
From:
bigtenvb@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bigtenvb@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug ONeal
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
7:26 PM
To: bigtenvb@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bigtenvb] first week
schedule
Well -- waking up from the Olympics to see that the Yankees are 9.5
games out of first raises the prospect that this might be a rather pleasant
fall sports season (i.e. without them in the playoffs for the first time since
1722).
All eleven Big Ten volleyball teams open this Friday -- good luck to
all, let's do some whuppin'. Here's the schedule ... of course this means
the beginning of my annual four weekends of figuring out exactly what
conferences the likes of UTSA and USF play in ... (yes, I know that Rich Kern
has a nice list).
Friday 8/29
North Carolina at Illinois
Indiana at Long Beach
State
Iowa vs. Nicholls State
Michigan vs. UL-Laf.
Michigan State at Oklahoma
Michigan State vs.
Cal Poly
Minnesota at
Creighton
Northwestern vs. UIC
Toledo at Ohio State
Xavier at Ohio State
Penn State at Hawaii
Duke at Purdue
Wisconsin vs. Western
Carolina
Saturday 8/30
NM State at Illinois
Oregon at Illinois
Indiana vs. Missouri State
Indiana vs. San
Francisco
Iowa vs. Western Ky.
Iowa at Alabama
Michigan vs UTSA
Michigan at Rice
Michigan State at Wichita
State
Minnesota vs. Texas
A&M
Minnesota vs. LSU
Northwestern vs. TBA
YSU at Ohio State
Penn State vs. UCLA
Tennessee State at
Purdue
Kansas State at
Purdue
Wisconsin vs. Pittsburgh
Wisconsin at Kentucky
Sunday 8/31
Penn
State vs. Ohio
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