The NCAA Championships continue this weekend with the Round of 16 on Friday and the Elite 8 on Saturday. ESPN has all the coverage, which means for online viewing it will be WatchESPN for those in the States and ESPNPlayer for those of us abroad.
Here are the match-ups for Friday:
05:00 PM ET #2 Texas #15 vs. Colorado State
05:00 PM ET #4 Wisconsin vs. Ohio State
06:00 PM ET #1 Stanford vs. Oregon State
07:00 PM ET #5 Penn State vs. #12 UCLA
07:00 PM ET #7 North Carolina vs. #10 Oregon
07:00 PM ET #6 Florida State vs. BYU
08:00 PM ET #8 Florida vs. #9 Illinois
09:30 PM ET #3 Washington vs. #14 Nebraska
I think the Washington-Nebraska and Penn State-UCLA will probably get a lot of attention seeing as they’re match-ups of former champions. I will be interested to see how North Carolina does against Oregon. The Oregon offense is quite fun to watch – very fast!
You can see the full bracket here.
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I have not seen any game of the Ducks yet. But what you wrote about their offense reminds me on Chip Kelly’s fast offense with Oregon’s football team 🙂 I would be interested to see how that works in volleyball.
One of their plays is to run the OPP to run a straight quick in front of the setter, the MB to run a spread quick (31), and the OH to hit a fast set (2nd tempo) ball at the pin. You don’t see OPPs running play sets these days the way they used to.
If you have the personnel for this. The good thing for the hitter is: It is just one set. Who ever has the chance can hit it 🙂
P.S. What are they doing in out-of-system situations? How fast do they play?
I don’t remember specifically. There obviously are limits when you’re out of system, but generally they like to play up-tempo.