Spurned by NCAA tourney, volleyball embracing top seed in NVIC

[Skipper]

Late Sunday night, the North Texas volleyball team discovered it would not be a part of the NCAA Tournament field of 64. While the disappointment lingered, the team’s reaction soon

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[UNTLifer]

For those of you in Denton tomorrow, get over there and make sure we continue with our home court advantage.

[Matt from A700]

Will be there tonight!

Truthfully we should be in the NCAA Tournament, but at least in this case we get at least another, possible two more home games!

[GrandGreen]

I hate they missed the NCAA tournament, but this may be a better deal for them this year.  Being the top seed in a lot lesser tournament may serve the program better than probably a first round loss as a bottom seed in the NCAA's.

A couple of home games and hopefully many more should help build the program for next year. 

[Mean Green Matt]

The best way we can prove to the NCAA that we deserve to be included moving forward is to go win this Tournament. 

[Jason Howeth]

Is there a stream of tonight's game anywhere? Maybe at the least a gamecast? Tonight we play TCU. 

[Matt from A700]

Intense match so far. Split through two games. We need to prove to the major conferences that you can't mess with us, especially in our own gym.

[Mean Green Matt]

@Matt from A700 are you at the game. What is the crowd like?

[ttunt1970]

What the score in the match

[Mean Green Matt]

Tied 1-1 on sets. NT struggling in set 3. NT volleyball providing solid updates on twitter. 

[Mean Green Matt]

HUGE comeback in set 3. From down 15-20 to win 25-23. NT up 2 sets to 1. 

[Salsa_Verde]

Tied 2-2 going into the 5th set. TCU keeps stopping the game to wipe the floor. 

Edited December 2, 2017 by Salsa_Verde

[Matt from A700]

1 hour ago, Mean Green Matt said:

@Matt from A700 are you at the game. What is the crowd like?

Sorry, once the third set started I couldn't look away from the game. But great crowd, plenty of TCU though, almost half of the bench-side bleachers.

But damn... the towel had more kills for TCU than any other player. Looked like at the end the judge on the ladder was hesitant to give them the towel but they continued to whine. Mean Green should be proud. It took a bunch of floor wiping for TCU to barely beat a C-USA team. I'd like to see the team schedule TCU in the regular season. I want revenge.

[Mean Green Matt]

1 minute ago, Matt from A700 said:

Sorry, once the third set started I couldn't look away from the game. But great crowd, plenty of TCU though, almost half of the bench-side bleachers.

But damn... the towel had more kills for TCU than any other player. Looked like at the end the judge on the ladder was hesitant to give them the towel but they continued to whine. Mean Green should be proud. It took a bunch of floor wiping for TCU to barely beat a C-USA team. I'd like to see the team schedule TCU in the regular season. I want revenge.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately even though TCU is Big 12 this is a bad loss. 

[Matt from A700]

1 minute ago, Mean Green Matt said:

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately even though TCU is Big 12 this is a bad loss. 

Yeah I believe they were 12-16 coming into the tournament, which makes me think that 32 teams is too large a field for a volleyball NIT.