One more time, here are the four Saturday NCAA Tournament regional finals that will decide the semifinal berths.
All can be seen on ESPNU and ESPN+.
The matches, four in a row, are scheduled to start every two hours.
Which is laughable. Nebraska coach John Cook is right about the NCAA volleyball regionals being Thursday-Saturday and Friday-Sunday. That’s a debate for another time. Meanwhile …
Since it’s highly unlikely any of the first three matches will all be played in less than two hours, get a second TV or device ready and be prepared to watch the start of the second, third and fourth matches on ESPN+:
At Louisville
Oregon (26-6) vs. Louisville (29-2), 4 p.m., ESPNU, ESPN+
At Texas
Ohio State (22-9) vs. Texas (25-1), 6 p.m., ESPNU, ESPN+
At Wisconsin
Pittsburgh (30-3) vs. Wisconsin (28-3), 8 p.m., ESPNU, ESPN+
At Stanford
San Diego (30-1) vs. Stanford (27-4), 10 p.m., ESPNU, ESPN+
The last time out
Oregon of the Pac-12, which has won 16 in a row, has beaten Loyola Marymount, Arkansas and Nebraska in the NCAA Tournament.
Co-ACC champion Louisville, which has won 11 in a row, swept Samford, Purdue and Baylor.
Ohio State of the Big Ten entered the tournament on a four-match losing streak and has beaten Tennessee State, USC and Minnesota.
Big 12-champion Texas has won 11 in a row and beat Fairleigh Dickinson, Georgia and Marquette.
Co-ACC champion Pittsburgh in the NCAA Tournament defeated Colgate, BYU and Florida.
Big Ten-champion Wisconsin has won 21 in a row and in the NCAA Tournament beat Quinnipiac, TCU and Penn State.
West Coast Conference-champion San Diego has won 27 in a row and advanced with wins over Northern Colorado, Washington State and Kentucky.
Stanford, which won the Pac-12 and is on a 21-match winning streak, beat Pepperdine, LSU and Houston.
In their previous meetings
While this is the first meeting between Oregon and Louisville, it’s the third this season alone between Ohio State and Texas.
Texas opened the season at Ohio State and came away with a 25-21, 25-22, 25-22 sweep on August 26 before winning 23-25, 25-18, 25-20, 25-13 the next night. This is the first postseason meeting between the programs.
Wisconsin is 6-3 against Pittsburgh but the last meeting was in 2008.
Stanford is 5-1 against San Diego, but they haven’t met since 2016.
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