Paul Sunderland, the ESPN analyst, joined us from the seaside in Malibu. JJ Van Niel, the first-year head coach whose 21-3 Arizona State group has turn out to be one of many large tales of the NCAA volleyball season, was driving to get one in all his children. Emily Ehman, the Massive Ten Community and ESPN analyst, noticed snowfall immediately in Chicago. Right here in Baton Rouge, it was a pleasant, cool night for Halloween.
This our weekly (largely) Zoom and we frolicked with Van Niel, whose Solar Devils are coming off a surprising sweep of Stanford, and later kicked round fairly a bit concerning the high groups after a nutty week as we head into the ultimate stretch of the season: