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.
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| 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
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DATE
|
LOCAL
TIME
|
OPPONENT
|
LOCATION
|
NORTHWEST CHALLENGE
|
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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
Saturday, Sept. 15th @ 10am:
ReplyDeleteUW Men's Club VB Team
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.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Portland took UW's spot at Penn State on the 14th & the 15th.
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