Friday nite results, Sept 3

by **pawball** » September 3rd, 2010, 11:14 pm

Bears over Texas A&M, 3-0.

Shocks over SFA, 3-0.

SIU over Brown, 3-0.

Jays over SLU, 3-0.

#20 Dayton over #22 UNI, 3-2, @ Minnesota

Sycs over SIU Edwardsvile, 3-2

Bulldogs over Wisc Green Bay, 3-1.

North Carolina St over Redbirds, 3-2.

Braves over Georgetown, 3-1.

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by **unipanther99** » September 5th, 2010, 12:29 pm

UNI goes 2-1 in the Minnesota tournament, falling to #20 Dayton in 5, but beating #8 Minnesota and Baylor.

by **pawball** » September 7th, 2010, 7:08 am

UNI moves up to #18. Bears still getting votes, come in at #33.

http://www.avca.org/divisions/division- ... l-8-30-10/

by **JayJ79** » September 7th, 2010, 6:51 pm

Just joined up. Looking forward to discussing volleyball on here. (c:

Another big match for UNI coming up tommorrow (Wed.) night, facing #11 Iowa State in Ames.
Had been planning on attending, but since they moved it to the high school, tickets are unavailable.

by **Red** » September 7th, 2010, 7:26 pm

JayJ79 wrote:Just joined up. Looking forward to discussing volleyball on here. (c:

Another big match for UNI coming up tommorrow (Wed.) night, facing #11 Iowa State in Ames.
Had been planning on attending, but since they moved it to the high school, tickets are unavailable.

Wait a minute. A college volleyball matchup between two Iowa schools both nationally ranked was moved to a high school? Why?

by **JayJ79** » September 7th, 2010, 8:03 pm

Red wrote:
JayJ79 wrote:Just joined up. Looking forward to discussing volleyball on here. (c:

Another big match for UNI coming up tommorrow (Wed.) night, facing #11 Iowa State in Ames.
Had been planning on attending, but since they moved it to the high school, tickets are unavailable.

Wait a minute. A college volleyball matchup between two Iowa schools both nationally ranked was moved to a high school? Why?

about 8 feet of water flooding ISU's home arena. There are some interesting pictures out there showing the basketball/volleyball floor floating there atop water levels even with the second row of the first balcony.

Of course, it's not flooded any longer, but it will take them until at least basketball season to get things cleaned up.

It really sucks. And it isn't just this match. ALL of Iowa State's home matches were moved there, including Nebraska @ ISU (which drew a crowd of over 10K last season)

by **valleychamp** » September 7th, 2010, 9:00 pm

That court is floating on top of 9 ft of water. All the locker rooms, training rooms, and whatever else was pretty much ruined. I believe they are playing their entire VB season at Ames HS because of this.

by **unipanther99** » September 7th, 2010, 9:52 pm

It's really too bad they didn't move this (and the Nebraska match) to Des Moines or something.

by **JayJ79** » September 7th, 2010, 10:09 pm

unipanther99 wrote:It's really too bad they didn't move this (and the Nebraska match) to Des Moines or something.

I dunno. Keeping it at the highschool gives more of a homecourt advantage. Kind of like playing in the West Gym did for UNI. Or like playing in the NU Colisium (instead of the basketball arena) does for Nebraska.

As for finances: yes, they would have sold more tickets if it was moved to Des Moines, but they would have had to pay higher building rental fees. Plus, keeping it there really drove up their season ticket sales. Even though their season ticket price ($35) was ridiculously cheap.

by **pawball** » September 8th, 2010, 7:06 am

Wow. That's cheaper than season tickets for Bears. Wonder how this will effect the broadcasting of the match tonight, via radio & internet.