The Weekend Revisited

This blog will be short and sweet. Most of us who work in the athletic department at Mizzou do no wish to re-live the past weekend (except the soccer team who did phenomenal this past weekend). UT as a whole wasn't very kind to the Tigers this weekend.

Friday I flew to Austin with the volleyball team for our game against the University of Texas. They are ranked No. 3 in the nation. Needless to say it by far wasn't our best game ever. We were swept 13-25, 20-25, 12-25. That brings us to 9-10 on the year and 3-6 in Big 12. Good news though, our destiny is in our own hands. We are currently tied for 9th out of 11, but only 1 game out of a huge tie for 5th and 2 games out of a tie for 4th, and we have a fairly easy schedule compared to most teams the next 5 games. We still have a chance to make the tournament.

Saturday the football team played in Austin as well against the #1 Longhorns. For anyone that watched the game knows that the first half for the Tigers was dismal. Thankfully we came out the 2nd half and played much better, but we were already so far behind that we couldn't make up the difference. Sadly we dropped to #16 in the polls, but we should win out if we take care of business and still make the Big 12 Championship game. One game at a time though.

Soccer had a phenomenal weekend though. They played Francis Marion on Friday night and won 6-1, then they went down to College Station to play No. 6 A&M who they shut out 6-0! A&M was tied for 1st in the conference so that win was huge. If soccer wins their next 3 conference games, they will win the conference outright. :)

This week in the volleyball world we host Colorado on Wednesday and travel to Iowa State on Friday for a game on Saturday (bus trip, sad I know, but bus trips don't bother me at all). Good news, we get the "Rock Star Bus" which is the bus with the 12 sleeper beds and then couch like seats in the front & back. The major plus to that is that we can watch TV on digital cable, which is great because our volleyball game is at 2pm and the football game vs Colorado (Homecoming) is on FSN at 5:30 pm so we will be able to watch the game on our way back. Soccer has a big weekend with games against Baylor on Friday & Texas on Sunday.