This article is a continuation of Wednesday's Statesman conversation with volleyball head coach Grayson DuBose about his team's record-setting season. Utah Statesman (US): What were your expectations heading into the WAC Tournament? Grayson DuBose (GD): We knew we'd have to win it to make the NCAA Tourney.
To say this season's Utah State volleyball team had a good year would be an understatement. The Aggies won 24 matches, the seventh-most in school history, including the fourth-best start at 11-0. Collectively, they set an all-time USU single-season blocks record.
All good things must come to an end. The Utah State Volleyball team learned that principle firsthand as their magical season finally came to an end Friday night. The Aggies lost in straight sets to No. 4 California in their first-round match of the NCAA tournament, ending their six-game winning-streak and their season.
There was a moment in late October when it looked like the season had passed the women of the Utah State volleyball team by. A month of close losses and questions of "what if" yielded to feelings that a season begun with great expectations was coming to an abrupt and disappointing end.
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If you were to compare the Utah State volleyball team's late-season explosion to one of those famous sports underdog films, no one would argue with you. Then again, you might just say the WAC Tournament Champion, NCAA tournament-bound Aggies simply returned to their early-season form that propelled them to an 11-0 start.
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