Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Washington volleyball match against Penn State cancelled


Pac-12 Network’s schedule affects travel options & RPI

Volleyblog Seattle has learned that the University of Washington’s much-anticipated nonconference match against national power Penn State has been cancelled.
The decision to back out of the September 14-15 tournament in State College, PA coincides with this morning’s release of the final 2012 Pac-12 Network schedule.
Kaleigh Nelson attacks during
Washington's 2012 Spring Training
-Volleyblog Seattle photo
by Leslie Hamann
The television schedule moves the Huskies’ conference opener against Washington State to Tuesday, September 18. Washington head coach Jim McLaughlin decided not to risk a weekend cross-country trip just days before the start of the conference season.
“It just didn’t make sense,” McLaughlin told Volleyblog Seattle. “We can’t lose all those training days right before league play.”
Washington added a road match against the University of Portland on September 11, and will try to find one more contest that week.
The loss of the Penn State match will clearly affect the Huskies’ RPI, the strength-of-schedule number used by the NCAA tournament selection committee at the end of the season. Last season, Pac-12 teams were heavily penalized by the committee: USC—top-ranked in the coaches’ poll—was seeded 7th; eventual National Champion UCLA was seeded 9th. Stanford (11th) was the only other seeded Pac-12 team.
This season, the Pac-12 eliminated two conference matches (Washington will not play Arizona at home or Arizona State in Tempe) as part of an effort to add more high-profile nonconference contests. McLaughlin scheduled Purdue (#8 in last season’s final RPI), plus Long Beach State (#41), Rice (#63) and LSU (#66). But he must now substitute Penn State (#13) with Portland (#209).
“It’s hard,” McLaughlin says. “We’re trying to upgrade our schedule, just like the NCAA told us. But it takes a lot of time and money to travel back East, and the Pac-12 now schedules its matches on almost every day of the week.”
The bulk of the matches on the just-released conference television schedule will be played Fridays and Sundays. There are also a fair number of matches on weekdays.
Washington’s home schedule includes a Tuesday match (9/18 Washington State), and two Wednesdays (9/26 UCLA & 11/21 Arizona State.) Weekday road matches include a nationally-televised Wednesday match at California (11/7) and a Pac-12 Network match at Stanford the next night (11/8).


UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON VOLLEYBALL
2012 SCHEDULE
as of June 20, 2012

DAY
DATE
LOCAL TIME
OPPONENT
LOCATION
NORTHWEST CHALLENGE
Friday
Aug 24
4:30PM
Gonzaga vs. Portland State
Seattle


7:00PM
Boise State @ Washington

Saturday
Aug 25
10:00AM
Portland State vs. Boise State



12:00PM
Gonzaga @ Washington



4:30PM
Boise State vs. Gonzaga



7:00PM
Portland State @ Washington

LSU TOURNAMENT
Friday
Aug 31
12:00PM
vs. Purdue
Baton Rouge, LA


7:00PM
@ LSU

Saturday
Sep 1
11:00AM
vs. Rice

THE INVITATIONAL AT SEATTLE
Thursday
Sep 6
7:00PM
Seattle U @ Washington
Seattle (UW)
Friday
Sep 7
7:00PM
Long Beach State @ Washington

Saturday
Sep 8
7:00PM
Long Beach State @ Seattle U
Seattle (SU)

Tuesday
Sep 11
7:00PM
@ University of Portland
Portland





PAC-12
Tuesday
Sep 18
7:00PM
Washington State
Seattle
Saturday
Sep 22
TBA
@ Arizona
Tucson
Wednesday
Sep 26
7:00PM
UCLA
Seattle
Friday
Sep 28
6:00PM
USC
Seattle
Friday
Oct 5
8:30PM
@ Utah
Salt Lake City
Sunday
Oct 7
3:00PM
@ Colorado
Boulder
Friday
Oct 12
TBA
@ Oregon State
Corvallis
Saturday
Oct 13
TBA
@ Oregon
Eugene
Friday
Oct 19
6:00PM
Stanford
Seattle
Sunday
Oct 21
1:00PM
California
Seattle
Friday
Oct 26
6:00PM
@ USC
Los Angeles
Sunday
Oct 28
12:00PM
@ UCLA
Los Angeles
Friday
Nov 2
6:00PM
Colorado
Seattle
Sunday
Nov 4
11:00AM
Utah
Seattle
Wednesday
Nov 7
TBA
@ California
Berkeley
Thursday
Nov 8
8:00PM
@ Stanford
Palo Alto
Friday
Nov 16
TBA
Oregon
Seattle
Saturday
Nov 17
TBA
Oregon State
Seattle
Wednesday
Nov 21
TBA
Arizona State
Seattle
Friday
Nov 23
TBA
@ Washington State
Pullman



Pac-12 Network
ESPN

NCAA TOURNAMENT
Thu-Sat
Nov 29-
Dec 2

NCAA 1st/2nd Rounds
TBA
Fri-Sat
Dec 7 &
Dec 8

NCAA Regionals
Berkeley, CA
Austin, TX
Lincoln, NE
W Lafayette, IN
Thu-Sat
Dec 13 &
Dec 15

NCAA Championships
Louisville, KY



2012 Pac-12 Networks Women’s Volleyball Televised Schedule

Date                       Time (PT)                Matchup                                             
Aug. 28                  7:00 PM                 Jiangsu Chinese Team at USC                 
Aug. 29                  7:00 PM                 Jiangsu Chinese Team at UCLA               
Sept. 5                   7:00 PM                 Jiangsu Chinese Team at Stanford  
Sept. 6                   7:00 PM                 Jiangsu Chinese Team at California
Sept. 12                 7:00 PM                 Pepperdine at UCLA                    
Sept. 18                 7:00 PM                 Arizona State at Arizona                        
Sept. 18                 7:00 PM                 Washington State at Washington              
Sept. 19                 7:00 PM                 California at Stanford                   
Sept. 19                 7:00 PM                 Oregon State at Oregon                         
Sept. 19                 7:00 PM                 Utah at Colorado                                   
Sept. 21                 6:00 PM                 Washington State at Arizona State 
Sept. 21                 6:00 PM                 Oregon at USC                                     
Sept. 21                 6:00 PM                 Stanford at Utah                                  
Sept. 21                 8:00 PM                 Oregon State at UCLA                           
Sept. 26                 7:00 PM                 UCLA at Washington                    
Sept. 28                 6:00 PM                 California at Arizona State                      
Sept. 28                 6:00 PM                 Colorado at Oregon State                       
Sept. 28                 6:00 PM                 USC at Washington                               
Sept. 28                 8:00 PM                 Utah at Oregon                                    
Sept. 30                 11:30 AM               USC at Washington State                        
Sept. 30                 11:30 AM               Utah at Oregon State                   
Sept. 30                 11:30 AM               California at Arizona                    
Sept. 30                 6:00 PM                 Stanford at Arizona State                       
Oct. 3                    7:00 PM                 Oregon at California                    
Oct. 5                    5:30 PM                 Oregon at Stanford                               
Oct. 5                    5:30 PM                 Arizona State at UCLA                           
Oct. 5                    5:30 PM                 Washington State at Colorado                 
Oct. 5                     7:30 PM                 Washington at Utah                               
Oct. 7                    2:00 PM                 Oregon State at Stanford                       
Oct. 7                    2:00 PM                 Arizona at UCLA                                   
Oct. 7                    2:00 PM                 Washington at Colorado                         
Oct. 7                    4:00 PM                 Arizona State at USC                   
Oct. 10                   7:00 PM                 USC at Stanford                                   
Oct. 12                   6:00 PM                 Washington State at Oregon          
Oct. 12                   6:00 PM                 UCLA at Stanford                                 
Oct. 12                   6:00 PM                 Arizona at Utah                                     
Oct. 12                   8:00 PM                 USC at California                                  
Oct. 14                   2:00 PM                 Washington State at Oregon State  
Oct. 14                   2:00 PM                 UCLA at California                                
Oct. 14                   2:00 PM                 Arizona State at Utah                            
Oct. 14                   4:00 PM                 Arizona at Colorado                               
Oct. 17                   7:00 PM                 Utah at UCLA                             
Oct. 19                   6:00 PM                 Oregon at Arizona                                 
Oct. 19                   6:00 PM                 Stanford at Washington                          
Oct. 19                   6:00 PM                 Utah at USC                                        
Oct. 19                   8:00 PM                 Oregon State at Arizona State                 
Oct. 21                   11:00 AM               Colorado at USC                                   
Oct. 21                   11:00 AM               Oregon State at Arizona                         
Oct. 21                   11:00 AM               Stanford at Washington State                  
Oct. 21                   1:00 PM                 California at Washington                        
Oct. 24                   7:00 PM                 Arizona at Stanford                               
Oct. 26                   6:00 PM                 Washington at USC                     
Oct. 26                   6:00 PM                 Arizona at California                    
Oct. 26                   6:00 PM                 Oregon at Colorado                               
Oct. 26                   8:00 PM                 Washington State at UCLA                     
Oct. 28                   10:00 AM               Oregon at Utah                                    
Oct. 28                   12 Noon                 Washington at UCLA                    
Oct. 28                   12 Noon                 Arizona State at California                      
Oct. 28                   12 Noon                 Oregon State at Colorado                       
Oct. 31                   7:00 PM                 Colorado at Washington State                 
Nov. 2                    6:00 PM                 California at Oregon                     
Nov. 2                    6:00 PM                 USC at Arizona State                   
Nov. 2                    6:00 PM                 Colorado at Washington                         
Nov. 2                    8:00 PM                 UCLA at Arizona                                   
Nov. 4                    11:00 AM               Utah at Washington                              
Nov. 4                    11:00 AM               California at Oregon State                      
Nov. 4                    11:00 AM               USC at Arizona                                    
Nov. 4                    1:00 PM                 Stanford at Oregon                               
Nov. 8                    6:00 PM                 Washington State at California                
Nov. 8                    6:00 PM                 Arizona State at Oregon State                 
Nov. 8                    8:00 PM                 Washington at Stanford                          
Nov. 20                  TBD                       UCLA at Oregon                                   
Nov. 20                  TBD                       USC at Oregon State                   
Nov. 21                  TBD                       Arizona at Washington State         
Nov. 21                  TBD                       Arizona State at Washington                   
Nov. 21                  TBD                       Colorado at Stanford                     
Nov. 23                  TBD                       Oregon at Oregon State                         
Nov. 23                  TBD                       USC at UCLA                             
Nov. 23                  TBD                       Washington at Washington State              
Nov. 23                  TBD                       Stanford at California                   
Nov. 23                  TBD                       Arizona at Arizona State                        
Nov. 23                  TBD                       Colorado at Utah                                                     

3 comments:

  1. Saturday, Sept. 15th @ 10am:
    UW Men's Club VB Team

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  2. How is it that your RPI goes down when you play in, BY FAR, the toughest conference in the NCAA? You don't see Big East teams required to play a bunch of tough non-conference games before they head into their games in basketball so why volleyball? That makes no sense at all.

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  3. It looks like Portland took UW's spot at Penn State on the 14th & the 15th.

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