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The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades? Fans can get spoiled very quickly in athletics and that’s a problem. It’s never easy to be successful in anything and when people get accustomed to specific results, it sometimes loses its effect on the players and they forget what it really takes to succeed and how […]

Congratulations to the University of Texas Longhorns on winning the 2012 NCAA Women’s Volleyball National Championship. It was an impressive win in an impressive season for Texas. We can’t wait for the 2013 season and the great matches in the Nike Big Four that, providentially (for Texas) will be held in Austin. Which brings us […]

Tournament Central On Wednesday, Russ Rose said in an interview that the thing he remembered from Penn State’s 2011 season opening loss to Oregon was that the Nittany Lions won the statistical battle, but lost the match.  This time, with the exception of blocking (Penn State totaled 19.5 blocks to 10.0 for the Ducks), Penn State […]

Tournament Central   Wednesday Practice Video (Penn State video and player photos courtesy GoPSUsports.com) Q&A with Lionsfan About Oregon DigNittany: In the last DigNittany North Pole Poll before the NCAA Tournament, Stanford ranked #1, Penn State ranked #2, Texas ranked #3, and Oregon ranked #4 (if memory serves, you may have voted Oregon #7).  Did the […]

Tournament Central National Semifinal Preview Interviews (Courtesy GoPSUsports.com) Where do the 2012 Final Four Fit In? Is there greater “parity” in NCAA Division 1 volleyball?  Comparing the won-lost records (matches and sets) of the 2012 NCAA Semifinalists to the records of NCAA Volleyball champions from 1998 to 2011,the asnswer would seem to be yes. During that period, five of […]

Tournament Central Q&A with Club Coach We’re speaking today with Club Coach, who has coached numerous collegiate and club volleyball players, about Thursday night’s NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship match between #1 seed Penn State and #5 seed Oregon.  Take a look: About Oregon’s Fast-Tempo Offense DigNittany: We’ve been hearing a lot about how Oregon runs […]

  The good news?  Penn State defeated Minnesota this afternoon 3-1 (25-19, 19-25, 26-24, 25-20) for its third victory over the Golden Gophers this season, which allows them to move on to the Final Four in Louisville next Thursday.   The bad news?  They’ll be facing an extremely talented and very hot Oregon team, which bounced back […]

Tournament Central About the Lions-Gophers Re-Rematch Minnesota Nearly Beat Penn State Last Time Out There’s alot of chatter on the internet about the fact that this afternoon’s match between Penn State and Minnesota will be the third time the two teams have met this season. We admit, in the absence of any data to the contrary, […]

I thought it was a good match. I thought both teams were playing very similar at the beginning of the first game and parts of the second game. I thought the key for us was our defense was so good. We didn’t give them any easy kills at any point of time. These two (McClendon […]

Media Coverage for Kentucky vs. Penn State Tournament Central The Kentucky match will be streamed live on ESPN3 (there is a different link on GoPSUsports.com: Watch Penn State vs. Kentucky, which we think is audio-only, but which we think is free) .  Stats coverage is from GameTracker. Match Snapshot Kentucky The Wildcats earned their spot in the Sweet 16 […]