COLUMN: Volleyball needs signature win to improve seeding
It’s November, and the volleyball team is still searching for an elusive signature win.
It’s November, and the volleyball team is still searching for an elusive signature win.
The volleyball team continued its success over the Big Ten bottom feeders over the weekend while also continuing its struggles against the conference elite.
It was professor appreciation night at Jenison Field House, but the MSU volleyball team was the one teaching the lesson on Saturday.
The inability to win close sets came back to haunt the Spartans on Halloween night.
With only a month left in the season, the women’s volleyball team is still searching for a signature win, and a matchup with a Big Ten foe this weekend might provide the perfect opportunity.
MSU played two competitive games on the road over the weekend but have nothing to show for it.
Senior libero and team co-captain Kori Moster has another honor to add to her already decorated career.
Start fast, finish slow was the motto for the volleyball team on Saturday evening. The Spartans (12-9 overall, 5-5 Big Ten) lost in straight sets to No. 7 Penn State (20-3 overall, 8-2 Big Ten), 0-3 (24-26, 17-25, 21-25).
The volleyball season is heading into the final stretch, and the competition is heating up for the Spartans. MSU (12-7 overall, 5-3 Big Ten) will hit the road to play No. 20 Ohio State (14-6 overall, 5-3 Big Ten) on Friday night and No. 7 Penn State, the defending national champion (18-3 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) on Saturday night.
The volleyball team has enjoyed some success recently, but they aren’t letting it get to their heads.
Two games against struggling opponents afforded the volleyball team time to give some of its younger players minutes over the weekend.
Maryland and Rutgers came into the weekend searching for their first Big Ten win. Thanks to MSU, they will have to keep searching.
The volleyball team might be able to string together a win streak, which has eluded them in the conference portion of the schedule thus far.
It can be hard to establish yourself as a freshman. It can be even harder to establish yourself as a freshman coming off an injury.
MSU (10-7 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) will have to lean on every player on its roster if they want to make a push in a tough Big Ten conference.
The volleyball team was able to stay afloat in the Big Ten standings this weekend after splitting two home games.
Perhaps the new uniforms bought new energy to the Spartans, who adorned pink jerseys Saturday night instead of the customary home white ones as part of their annual Breast Cancer Awareness game.
It was too little too late for the Spartans, who waited until they were down two sets to play their best volleyball.
The volleyball team will try and replicate the success the football team had against Nebraska last weekend.