Christy Johnson-Lynch finally pulled the trigger. The Iowa State volleyball teamed abandoned the 6-2 as its primary scheme in favor of the 5-1, a move the ISU coach had been weighing for weeks.
“Six-twos can really take the rhythm and the flow of the game away from the players,” Johnson-Lynch said Monday at her weekly press conference, “and that’s what I was seeing. It wouldn’t matter who that other setter was. That’s the challenge of running the six-two.
“Some years you’ve got it and some years you don’t. I just hadn’t felt like the team was in a great rhythm the previous two weeks.