Sooner VB travels to Austin for Thur-Fri Matches against Texas
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:16 am
The Sooner VB team travels to Austin today to play against the Longhorns in a Thurs-Fri set of matches at 7 PM both nights. Both matches will be on the Longhorn Network only. But an alternative to that is using the Live Stats feed that you can select from the Texas Longhorn schedule page on their website.
The staff preview article is provided below for your read.
https://soonersports.com/news/2021/11/1 ... valry.aspx
The matches will be a stiff test for the Sooners as Texas is one of the best teams in the country with a 18-1 record overall and a 9-1 record in the Big 12 having only lost to Baylor last weekend as the two teams split their two matches.
From looking at the Longhorns stats they have very strong players at the net. They have 5 players that have over a 90 successful kills and they all five have over a 0.281 kill %. Those same 5 players have over 33 blocks at the net on defense and 320 total blocks for the season. Between kills and service aces the Longhorns earn an average over 20.5 points a set. The Longhorns have a very high team average of 0.327 for kill %.
The Sooners will be challenged on every point at the net. The play of the front line for the Sooners will have to be excellent for the Sooners to stay in each set. The Sooners have 3 players with over 140 successful kills (Wilson, Davison and Anderson) and the Sooners have 7 players with over 29 blocks at the net and 255 total blocks for the season. With kills and service aces the Sooners earn just under 17 points a set. The Sooners have a team % of 0.193%.
The game will be decided at the net with the OU defense trying to slow down the Longhorn attack. I think the Sooner offense lead by Dunn will need to be varied and effective to keep pace with Texas as well. There may be lot of pressure put on the defenders (Kemohah, Harty and Anthony) for the Sooners to handle the attack by the Longhorns.
Good luck to the Sooner VB'ers in their version of the Red River Rivalry.
Boomer Sooner!
The staff preview article is provided below for your read.
https://soonersports.com/news/2021/11/1 ... valry.aspx
The matches will be a stiff test for the Sooners as Texas is one of the best teams in the country with a 18-1 record overall and a 9-1 record in the Big 12 having only lost to Baylor last weekend as the two teams split their two matches.
From looking at the Longhorns stats they have very strong players at the net. They have 5 players that have over a 90 successful kills and they all five have over a 0.281 kill %. Those same 5 players have over 33 blocks at the net on defense and 320 total blocks for the season. Between kills and service aces the Longhorns earn an average over 20.5 points a set. The Longhorns have a very high team average of 0.327 for kill %.
The Sooners will be challenged on every point at the net. The play of the front line for the Sooners will have to be excellent for the Sooners to stay in each set. The Sooners have 3 players with over 140 successful kills (Wilson, Davison and Anderson) and the Sooners have 7 players with over 29 blocks at the net and 255 total blocks for the season. With kills and service aces the Sooners earn just under 17 points a set. The Sooners have a team % of 0.193%.
The game will be decided at the net with the OU defense trying to slow down the Longhorn attack. I think the Sooner offense lead by Dunn will need to be varied and effective to keep pace with Texas as well. There may be lot of pressure put on the defenders (Kemohah, Harty and Anthony) for the Sooners to handle the attack by the Longhorns.
Good luck to the Sooner VB'ers in their version of the Red River Rivalry.
Boomer Sooner!