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Match Thread - Volleyball faces James Madison in 1st round of NCAA Tournament (Friday, 3:30 PM MT)

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The NCAA tournament starts Friday afternoon for the Buffs, as they travel to Waco TX in their 1st tournament appearance since 2014. If they win Friday, the 2nd round match is, as quoted below, the next evening.

Go Buffs!

Preview article -


Direct link - http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2017/11...dison-in-19th-ncaa-tournament-appearance.aspx

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BOULDER— The Colorado Buffaloes are set to face-off against James Madison on Friday, December 1, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Waco, Texas. The match is set for a 3:30 p.m. MT start.

The winner of the contest will take on the winner of the other first round match-up between the No. 12 seeded Baylor Bears and Miami (Ohio) RedHawks on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m. MT.

TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Links to the live stats, as well as live streams all three matches in Waco, Texas, can be found at the tournament central page: http://www.baylorbears.com/sports/w-volley/2017-ncaa-tournament.html.

ABOUT THE BUFFS: Colorado finished the regular season with a 22-9 overall record and tied for fifth in the Pac-12 with a 12-8 mark, their best ever record since joining the league in 2011. The 22 wins ties the fourth most in CU history and has not been accomplished since 1998.
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SCOUTING THE DUKES: JMU is making its second consecutive and fourth overall appearance in the NCAA tournament since moving to Division I in 1986. The Dukes have earned a 23-5 overall record and won the Colonial Athletic Association Championships with an 11-5 record. Bryn Recker leads the Dukes with 3.48 kills per set and adds 2.06 digs per set and 0.67 blocks per set while hitting .250. JMU runs a 6-2 offense with Sarah Martin handing out 5.53 assists per set and Tilbe Taglioglu adding 4.91. Taylor Austin leads the Dukes with 5.78 digs per set and M'Kaela White averages a team-best 1.53 blocks per set.

This is the first meeting between JMU and CU.
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Host Baylor sub-regional homepage - http://www.baylorbears.com/sports/w-volley/2017-ncaa-tournament.html

Live Video (looks to be free live stream) - http://www.baylorbears.com/collegesportslive/?media=567201

Live Stats - http://www.baylorbears.com/gametrac...ool=bay&sport=wvolley&camefrom=&startschool=&
 
Just wanted to mention the NCAA Tournament started today, although only 2 of the 16 sub-regions chose the Thursday-Friday 1st round-2nd round option.

A great (one of MANY) Volleytalk poster, TCMullet, started a thread (http://volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/71677/viewing-links-all-round-matches) which, mainly, provides a link to his list of links to all the (almost if not all free) live video streams of the 32 1st round and 16 2nd round matches. That list is at http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=bb...leyball-great-video-clips.php#2017wvNcaaTourn .

Note- the only action left this evening is the Buff's most recent opponent, the #11 seed Utah Utes, hosting Cleveland State, with the match scheduled to start in a few minutes (7:00 PM MT). Direct link to that stream is supposed to be http://pac-12.com/live/university-utah, and it's also being shown on the Pac 12 Mountain channel.

Tomorrow, looks like there will be multiple match options for volleyball fans to view non-stop from 2:50 PM MT through around 10:00 PM MT, highlighted of course by the Buffs starting at 3:30 PM MT. (For some reason (maybe the stream starts early?), TCMULLET is showing a 3:15 PM start time for the Buff's match stream.)

Note- the live interactive NCAA tournament bracket can be viewed at http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/volleyball-women/d1 .
 
The video stream is working well for me. My daughter had to come home sick from school so I get to watch while I listen in on a meeting.
 
Video is fine for me also- Live Stats not working however.

Both teams with quite a few "unforced errors" in kill attempts. Looks like JMU is a VERY middle blocker offense oriented team, at least so far. Their #9 especially looks very productive.
 
Well that was quick. I couldn't even get the live stream to work before it was over.

No surprise from my point of view. The Pac 12 is brutally tough. I doubt that JMU sees the type of competition the Buffs do match in and match out

The Buffs can absolute beat the Bears tomorrow night.
 


Note- looks like the post-match press conference may be viewable via the stream link provided in the OP. (Looks like they are doing mic and video tests, but nothing started yet.)
 
Oops- look like they TRIED to show the press conference, but couldn't get audio and now killed the stream.

Congrats to the Buffs again. Hope they get some rest and are ready to come back STRONG tomorrow evening.

Note- for anyone interested, the stream of the match (Baylor - Miami (of Ohio)) that will determine the Buffs' opponent tomorrow will be starting around 6:00 PM MT at http://www.baylorbears.com/collegesportslive/?media=567202 . (Of course, being the 12th overall seed in the tournament, assume the bears will be a solid to heavy favorite this evening.)
 
You got that right! **** Bailer!

If they don't win it will be because of service errors and/or unforced attack errors.
 
Article on today's win-

Direct link - http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2017/12...advance-to-ncaa-second-round.aspx?path=wvball

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WACO, Texas – The University of Colorado advanced to the second round of the 2017 NCAA Volleyball Tournament by sweeping James Madison, 3-0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-12), Friday here at the Farrell Center.

The Buffs improve to 23-9 on the season and have now won four straight first-round matches in NCAA Tournament action dating back to 2005. The Dukes end their season with a 23-6 record.

WHAT HAPPENED: Colorado and James Madison played the first set fairly evenly before the Buffs took control and never looked back. Setter Brynna DeLuzio got the middles involved early in the second set and that proved to be the difference in that set then Frankie Shebby took over the third set to get the sweep.

Naghede Abu hit .615 and Anna Pfefferle hit .462 with four blocks to lead the Buffs. On the outside, Frankie Shebby led all players with 12 kills and Alexa Smith added eight. DeLuzio paced the offense with 33 assists and led the charge defensively with 13 digs and Gabby Carta-Samuels added nine digs. Joslyn Hayes had four kills, four blocks and three digs on the right side.
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NOTES: This was the first match-up between Colorado and James Madison. Colorado improved to 3-0 against teams from the Colonial Athletic Conference, also having sweeps over Hofstra (11/29/90) and UNC Wilmington (8/31/07). The Buffs improved to 12-18 all-time in NCAA Tournament action and are now 9-8 in the first round. The Buffs have won four consecutive first-round NCAA Tournament matches dating back to 2005. This is the sixth NCAA Tournament sweep in the CU's NCAA Tournament history. CU is now 6-3 in neutral court match-ups in the NCAA Tournament. The Buffs now have 23 wins on the season, the most since 1994 and tied for third-most in CU history. That 1994 team also had 23 while the 1991 squad had 25 wins and the 1993 team 26.

TEAM STATISTICS: Colorado hit .305 in the match with 43 kills and 11 errors on 105 attacks, holding James Madison barely in plus-territory with a .029 percentage with 25 kills and 22 errors on 105 attacks. CU had 55 digs to the Dukes' 43 and led with seven blocks to three and three aces to two.

NEXT UP: Colorado advances to face the winner of No. 12 seed Baylor and Miami (Ohio). The match will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday here in Waco, Texas.

QUOTES:
Head coach Jesse Mahoney
Opening Statement…
"First of all, congratulations to James Madison for a great season. I thought that they were very well coached. I thought they played with a lot of intensity and certainly pushed us to play as hard as we can, so congratulations to them. I felt like our team, certainly midway through the first set kind of calmed down and relaxed a little bit, played within ourselves. From that point on I was really pleased with the way our offense was spread."

On the team's performance…
"I felt like our setter, Brynna DeLuzio], did a really nice job of getting everybody involved. Then towards the ends of sets two and three, I thought defensively we continued to get better, certainly on the blocks. I'm happy for the showing we had, a lot of great individual performances, and like we've done all season, a really great team effort."

Senior Joslyn Hayes
On the difference between the first set and the next two…
"Well, I think that in the first set everybody was nervous, everybody was excited to be in the tournament itself. So just getting the jitters out was ultimately I think the difference. Once we got comfortable we were able to just go and play our own game."

Senior Anna Pfefferle
On what it means to advance to the second round…
"Having the opportunity to play another game is everything that we're looking forward to, so as long as we can keep playing we'll be happy."
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Box score - http://www.cubuffs.com/documents/2017/12/1//12_1_17_JMU.pdf

Note- As anticipated, Baylor easily won the 1st 2 sets (-19 and -16) in its match, so are the Buffs' likely opponent tomorrow. Although, Miami (OH) is still fighting and it's tied at 5 in the 3rd.
 
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