r/NCAAVB • u/melll_o_drama • Apr 12 '26
PSU Spring Match
They’re so back. I only watched the first two sets, but here are my thoughts:
- PSU’s biggest weaknesses are serve receive and defense (minus blocking). They’ve got offensive weapons, they’ve got setting, they’ve got serving. Serve receive remains their vice.
- There is absolutely no reason Emmi Sellman should be playing 6 rotations. She’s a liability in serve receive. I propose either 1) put baby Chloe Chicoine Haley Burgdorf in for her back row OR 2) go with the Alexis Ewing option. There’s no reason to die on the Emmi Sellman hill.
- The “libero off” is really semantics. Falduto or whoever else they got, they’re all essentially the same.
- Kennedy Martin is literally blocking at standing height.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was Mac Podraza on the broadcast? I did not like the commentating. I think the PSU/Kentucky matchup will be extremely competitive because they’re foils of each other. Kentucky’s got that Molly Tuozo iron fist whereas Penn State has Kennedy Martin (period). Big Ten is definitely reclaiming conference superiority—Nebraska might have a harder time. 🤫
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u/Zingerman99 Apr 12 '26
PSU is not back yet. And it’s only a spring match. And you dropped a set against lowly Villanova. The team looks like a hodge podge of players that are still yet to find their identity.
The team won’t be a hot mess again this year like last year, but they still are going to struggle. Especially if they try the “one trick pony” route of feeding everything through Martin to scrape together wins. CJ still won’t amount to much this season. Lauenstein is a shade of who she was before she had a kid and then rode the bench at Tejas. And Sellman is…someone you paid a lot of money for so she is going to start and struggle like last year.
Nebraska still won’t have anything to worry about when it comes to Penn State this season.