WIAC women's volleyball

['95 Blugold]

UW-OSHKOSH TO THR FINAL 8!!!

After never being able to find a way to get over the hump in the first set UW-Oshkosh controlled the next three sets as they defeat La Verne in 4 sets (18-25, 25-20, 25-17, 25-22) to advance.

['95 Blugold]

Despite multiple match point opportunities UW-Whitewater falls to Northwestern-St.Paul in 5 sets (25-20, 25-21, 28-30, 26-28, 11-15) as Northwestern-St.Paul pulls off the reverse sweep in dramatic fashion.

Warhawks have gone 0-4 against the Eagles the past 2 seasons including season ending losses at Regionals both years.

['95 Blugold]

UW-Oshkosh gets the #1 seed for the final 8. Will open up round 1 against host school Claremont-Mudd-Scripp on 11/29 @ 9pm CST.

['95 Blugold]

WIAC is fully eliminated as Claremont-Mudd-Sripps defeats UW-Oshkosh in the quarterfinals 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-17).

Also, from a regional standpoint Northwestern-St.Paul gets eliminated as well by NYU 3-2.

Enjoy the WIAC offseason.

['95 Blugold]

Welcome to the 2024 season. Blugolds I know had scrimmage today at St. Olaf and will be out in Gettysburg, PA this weekend. That said, the preseason AVCA poll is out and has 3 WIAC teams in the top 25.

#5: UW-Oshkosh
#10: UW-Whitewater
#21 UW-Stevens Point

UW-Platteville (8) receiving votes.

Enjoy the season everyone.

['95 Blugold]

WIAC getting a lot of preseason love in the Massey Ratings. Through 8/27:

#1 UW-Whitewater
#2 UW-Oshkosh
#7 UW-Stevens Point
#16 UW-Eau Claire
#19 UW-Platteville
#36 UW-River Falls

['95 Blugold]

WEEK 1 AVCA POLL

#7 UW-Whitewater (+3): goes undefeated for the week with no real challenges.
#8 UW-Oshkosh (-3): 3-1 on the week with a loss to then #16 Gustavus, beat then #11 Transylvania

Receiving Votes:

UWSP (75): drops out out of the top 25 after a 1-2 week. Losses to #23 Cornell and Southwestern U.
UW-Platteville (57): 4-0 with 4 sweeps against non ranked opponents. Nice start.

Massey Ratings Through 9-5

#2 UW-Whitewater
#3 UW-Oshkosh
#11 UW-Platteville
#26 UWSP

['95 Blugold]

WEEK 2 AVCA POLL

Sorry a bit late this week as I've been traveling out of town.

#4 UW-Whitewater (+3)
#6 UW-Oshkosh (+2)
 
Receiving Votes:

UW-Platteville (90)
UWSP (26
UWEC (14)

Massey Ratings through 9-13

#1 UW-Whitewater
#3 UW-Oshkosh
#6 UW-Platteville
#23 UWSP
#28 UWEC

WIAC play starts this coming week with a big one at the top right away as Whitewater travels to Oshkosh Wednesday, September 18. Two teams receiving votes square off as well as UWEC travels to UWSP on Wednesday as well.

['95 Blugold]

WEEK 3 AVCA POLL

#3 UW-Whitewater (+1))
#5 UW-Oshkosh (+1)

Receiving Votes:

UW-Platteville (124)
UWSP (44)
UWEC (24)

UWSP defeated UWEC in 4 sets on Tuesday in a good match up. After I finished watching my Blugolds fall I switched over and watched the 5th and final set of UW-Oshkosh's victory over UW-Whitewater.

Massey Ratings through 9-21

#2 UW-WHitewater
#3 UW-Oshkosh
#22 UW-Platteville
#25 UWSP
#30 UWEC

['95 Blugold]

WEEK 4 AVCA Poll

#2 UW-Oshkosh (+3)
#3 UW-Whitewater (-)

Receiving Votes:

UW-Platteville (30)
UWSP (18)
UWEC (17)

Oshkosh with a nice jump and leap over Whitewater after their big 5 set win over the Warhawks last week, though expect them to fall back down a few notches as they got swept by Platteville on the road this evening.  Will that be enough for Platteville to finally crack into the top 25? Lost their chance is this weeks poll after getting swept by UW-Stout last week to open up WIAC play. Should be fun month ahead for the WIAC play as we get into the meat of in conference play.

Massey Rankings through 9-24

#2 UW-Whitewater
#3 UW-Oshkosh
#22 UW-Platteville
#25 UWSP
#29 UWEC

[WLCALUM83]

A reliable source tells me that the following WIAC squads would be in the tournament (though these projections are early yet).

UW-Whitewater (sure thing).

At Large:
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Platteville
UW-Stevens Point

UW-Eau Claire would be out.

['95 Blugold]

A reliable source tells me that the following WIAC squads would be in the tournament (though these projections are early yet).

UW-Whitewater (sure thing).

At Large:
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Platteville
UW-Stevens Point

UW-Eau Claire would be out.

Unless they end up winning the WIAC conference tournament I would agree with this. A couple nice wins this past week over ranked opponents, but to many losses overall has my Blugolds on the outside looking in. We'll see how it plays out, but with 6 losses currently and Whitewater, Oshkosh and Platteville yet on the schedule I don't think UWSP is assured of being in, especially if they drop all three of those matches.

['95 Blugold]

WEEK 6 AVCA Poll

Missed last week, as I'm still getting used to a new job role and a kind of mixed up schedule that has come with it. Nothing changing in the top 8 spots in this weeks AVCA poll from last week.

#5 UW-Whitewater (-)
#7 UW-Oshkosh (-)
#18 UW-Platteville (+1)

Receiving Votes

UW-Eau Claire (70)
UW-Stevens Point (62)

A couple important conference match ups start off the week this week. UWSP travels to UW-Whitewater and UWEC goes to UW-Platteville this evening. UWSP continues their tough week as they travel to St. Louis (MO) over the weekend for matchups against North Park (80 received votes), Illinois Wesleyan (41 received votes), #8 Washington-St. Louis.

Massey Rankings (Through 10-14)

#2 UW-Whitewater
#5 UW-Oshkosh
#12 UW-Platteville
#20 UW-Stevens Point
#23 UW-Eau Claire

[WLCALUM83]

WIAC Update:

Oshkosh, Stevens Point, Whitewater, Platteville, Eau Claire and Stout are in.

Oshkosh gets the top seed, having beaten Stevens Point head to head.
Stevens Point gets #2, having beaten Whitewater head to head.

Platteville, Eau Clare and Stout are in a tie

Head to head:
Platteville;  (0-2) lost to both Eau Claire and Stout
Eau Claire:   (2-0)  beat both Platteville and Stout
Stout:         (1-1): beat Platteville, lost to Eau Claire

There you have it. 

['95 Blugold]

In what was likely a post season elimination match UW-Platteville goes on the road and sweeps the Blugolds in 3 sets in the first round of the WIAC VB Tournament. UWEC was consistently battling up hill the whole match and just could not get over the hum an any point. Platteville travels to UW-Oshkosh Thursday in semi final action.

UW-Whitewater sweeps UW-Stout at home as expected. They will travel to UWSP on Thursday for their semi final match up.