Sooner Volleyball Travels to UCF for Thur & Fri Matches at 6 PM!
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 3:46 pm
The Oklahoma Sooner Women's Volleyball Team travels to Orlando for a Thursday/Friday 6PM match on both nights against the UCF Golden Knights. UCF owns am 11-2 overall record and a 2-0 record in Big 12 conference play. UCF swept Cincinnati in two matches last weekend 3-1 and 3-0. UCF is essentially ranked #29 in the nation. Oklahoma is 6-5 overall and 0-2 in Big 12 matches. The Sooners lost two matches to Texas last weekend both is straight sets 0-3.
Most of the numbers for the two teams are very close until you look at errors and serving. Oklahoma has 225 attack errors in 11 matches and 41 sets while UCF has only 208 attack errors in 13 matches and 48 sets. in service errors, OU has 135 in those same 41 sets while UCF has only 122 in 48 sets. UCF also owns a Service Ace advantage with 124 in 48 sets while Oklahoma has 60 in 41 sets. UCF serves at an 89% serve-in rate while OU holds a 82.5% serve-in rate. UCF has a service ace% of 11.2% while OU picks up 5.2% of their serves as aces. UCF averages 1 more Dig per set and and slightly less receiving errors per set.
Positive numbers for Oklahoma are Kills with 564 in 41 sets (13.76 per set), while UCF has 647 in 48 sets (13.48 per set). OU leads slightly in assists per set and in blocks with 90.5 Block Points against UCF's 80.0 Block Points. In Points, the Sooners top 5 hitters averages 15.21 Points/Set while UCF averages 15.27 Points/Set.
To improve their chances to win one or both of the matches against UCF, the Sooners will need to serve much better with less serving errors and a few more aces, If they can do that, they can help themselves a great deal. Coach Mansfield is looking for answers to the Sooner serving game as he has sent 11 Sooners to the serving line. By contrast, UCF has sent basically just 6 players to the serving line outside of 31 attempts by 2 players. The Sooners will also have to receive serve well and move the ball to the setter in good position with their first touch more often. Much more often against what looks like a good serving team in UCF.
The other area that the Sooner will need to improve is reducing attack errors. The ability to eliminate errors is a by-product of the handling the UCF serves well with their first touch. If the Sooners can consistently move the ball to their setter, they will have better results as they attack.
If the Sooners can do those two things and still maintain a block advantage over UCF which looks to be the case by the stats, the Sooners can have a good chance to upset the Golden Knights. Oklahoma needs a win this weekend to post the first Big 12 victory under Coach Mansfield.
Oklahoma is very close to being successful this season. They have lost several sets during the last quarter of the set when points are critical and lead to winning the set. IF they can begin to pick up those sets, the matches become a set longer or even two sets longer and OU increases their chances to win. Oklahoma can win with Shelton, Preston and Burts supplying the offensive punch if they can minimize the errors and serve much better. To me, Chamberlain sets the ball very well if she is not running after the first touch and Kemohah leads the defensive effort well. I hope we see improvement at the service line this weekend along with fewer errors overall.
Good luck to the Sooners on Thursday and Friday in Orlando.
Boomer Sooner!
Most of the numbers for the two teams are very close until you look at errors and serving. Oklahoma has 225 attack errors in 11 matches and 41 sets while UCF has only 208 attack errors in 13 matches and 48 sets. in service errors, OU has 135 in those same 41 sets while UCF has only 122 in 48 sets. UCF also owns a Service Ace advantage with 124 in 48 sets while Oklahoma has 60 in 41 sets. UCF serves at an 89% serve-in rate while OU holds a 82.5% serve-in rate. UCF has a service ace% of 11.2% while OU picks up 5.2% of their serves as aces. UCF averages 1 more Dig per set and and slightly less receiving errors per set.
Positive numbers for Oklahoma are Kills with 564 in 41 sets (13.76 per set), while UCF has 647 in 48 sets (13.48 per set). OU leads slightly in assists per set and in blocks with 90.5 Block Points against UCF's 80.0 Block Points. In Points, the Sooners top 5 hitters averages 15.21 Points/Set while UCF averages 15.27 Points/Set.
To improve their chances to win one or both of the matches against UCF, the Sooners will need to serve much better with less serving errors and a few more aces, If they can do that, they can help themselves a great deal. Coach Mansfield is looking for answers to the Sooner serving game as he has sent 11 Sooners to the serving line. By contrast, UCF has sent basically just 6 players to the serving line outside of 31 attempts by 2 players. The Sooners will also have to receive serve well and move the ball to the setter in good position with their first touch more often. Much more often against what looks like a good serving team in UCF.
The other area that the Sooner will need to improve is reducing attack errors. The ability to eliminate errors is a by-product of the handling the UCF serves well with their first touch. If the Sooners can consistently move the ball to their setter, they will have better results as they attack.
If the Sooners can do those two things and still maintain a block advantage over UCF which looks to be the case by the stats, the Sooners can have a good chance to upset the Golden Knights. Oklahoma needs a win this weekend to post the first Big 12 victory under Coach Mansfield.
Oklahoma is very close to being successful this season. They have lost several sets during the last quarter of the set when points are critical and lead to winning the set. IF they can begin to pick up those sets, the matches become a set longer or even two sets longer and OU increases their chances to win. Oklahoma can win with Shelton, Preston and Burts supplying the offensive punch if they can minimize the errors and serve much better. To me, Chamberlain sets the ball very well if she is not running after the first touch and Kemohah leads the defensive effort well. I hope we see improvement at the service line this weekend along with fewer errors overall.
Good luck to the Sooners on Thursday and Friday in Orlando.
Boomer Sooner!