A Roller Coaster Ride Called This Volleyball Season

We go up, we go down. There may even be a loop de loop ahead, but the ride keeps going just as long as the volleyball season continues. Nebraska’s two loses this week to Wisconsin and then Minnesota were no fun. Then Purdue, who Nebraska beat in four, goes off and beats Wisconsin in four.

Volleyball is never an equation that we can easily balance, but this season is particularly hard to pin down as we try to guess who is better than who.

Based, first, on how great Nebraska looked against Purdue and second, how amazing Wisconsin looked against Nebraska, I NEVER would have predicted that Purdue would beat Wisconsin in four sets, but they did. What are the transitive properties of wins? In this…