Quotes from the tourney that God hath forsaken

"The NCAA women's volleyball tournament began this weekend without one of the decade's most familiar postseason names. Again." - Columbia Daily Tribune. Hmm...Pepperdine? San Diego? BYU? Wisconsin? Pacific? Cal Poly? "Missouri." Oh, right. How could I have missed that.


"We want to go all the way to the final four. We've decided to take them one at a time." - Dave Shoji, beautifully contrasting "all the way" with "one at a time."


"There was something spooky in the 44-year-old Pauley Pavilion on Saturday night." - The Daily Bruin, re: Baylor's upset of UCLA. Look, I suppose Jim Barnes is no Brad Pitt, but I don't know that "spooky" is a fair assessment. 


"Setter Evan Sanders methodically passed the ball in their directions and what looked like blocked shots turned into powerful spikes through fingers attached to purple jerseys." - The Rocky Mountain Collegian, getting all descriptive and junk.


"The Bobcat coach looks like he said something to Rosen on the sidelines and Rosen just laughed at whatever he said. I don't know, it's one of those 'You had to be here to see it' sorta deals." - From The Michigan Daily's live blog of the Ohio / Michigan match, pretty much defining what a live blog of a match is supposed to do.


"We had some nice highs, and we had some lows." - Jim McLaughlin, describing either the Huskies' season or paraphrasing the opening of "A Tale of Two Cities."