Pour a quick one out for the women's volleyball team, who got straight hosed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. The team who finished 5th in the toughest conference in America, beat six top-25 opponents, and who finished the year on a roll by winning five of their last six was left on the side of the road by a committee who seemed (unsurprisingly) over-impressed by RPI. Consider that three teams that finished below them in the Pac-12 standings made the dance, and understand how royally they were screwed.
I especially feel bad for seniors Alexis Austin and Nicole Edelman. They deserved to go out with another trip to the tournament, not the heartbreak of a truly indefensible snub. For that, I have only one word for the committee:
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Today in the bag, I'm talking the hoops win over Northern Colorado, the end of the football season, and an uncomfortable anniversary.
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