 Welcome back to the all dispersion show presented by Buffalo Wildwings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's volleyball head coach all dispersions and coach team headed to New Jersey for the NCAA tournament open with 15th ranked elms and Sweep them talk about that opening match on Friday night. Um, that was great. That's a superstar It was definitely doable our team felt like they could take elms Their head coach Sheila has it just a great squad they have a recruited boys from Puerto Rico and Brazil you know to mix with her team and One of them was a newcomer of the year and but I think our guys felt felt really Confident that they could go in and win that match and they did Try to remember exactly what happened. Oh landing shorts pretty much It was kind of up and down until landing kind of broke it open with some Aces he really had a fantastic serving night and I'd say Jared Well, Jared said well, but I meant the other Jay Jason Just had a fantastic finish to the season It just went up and up and up where he carried us in the front row and end the back row at times Yeah, after that went on you face Stevens ranked third in the country on their home court They had a day rest lost in four, but competitive four sets talk about that match. Yeah, that was a Fantastic opportunity to make it to the final four We were already in a lead eight and the guys were like super happy about that and deservedly so Stevens was ranked number three pretty or in the top five. I think all year and they have a just a solid program and Their senior top heavy they had a graduate Student actually gave who we couldn't stop. He was an outside. He definitely deserved all American honors As did the bore their other outside We did a good job stopping their medals and I think the the high point of that match was a second set where we were I remember distinctly remember and now how do we lost the first set? You know pretty close and the guys were kind of down. I'm like thinking why are we down? Here we are, you know with a chance to get to the final four and we're competitive against Stevens the ducks were You know starting to You know, we were we were able to side out with them And then and I remember in a timeout in the second set I said you guys you really have to believe that you can win because that was the thing to getting to the final four I don't think they really believed it. They kind of you know, you talk about You can you know, you earn your right to be here and all this stuff, you know, but they really did they they fought off nine Set points in that second game drove it up into the 30s So that was just a fantastic win and then we almost be we could have realistically taken the third set But Steven should why they were number three They ran off streaks of points when they needed to and we work on that and practice a lot You can at the highest level you're siding out back and forth and you run it into the 20s and it's closed And the team that can run off a few points like they did I think they had a streak of three or four points and we got stuck in a rotation Which I think I could have done a better job of doing something different I have it in my mind now, but I'm not gonna tell anybody next year, but It happens, you know you get second rotations and then you know, they were they were the better team that day Now that the season's kind of come through an end and it you know it a few days ago You win the Mac title regular season and tournament champions in the inaugural year Make it to the second and say tournament appearance and program history What are your your kind of initial thoughts right now on the season as a whole I? Just think is fantastic for the freshman the five freshmen that I have that You know and that the seniors here and the juniors this year They showed the way to the to the underclassmen that they're not gonna have to believe next year They're gonna already have you know They're gonna just compete hard and take take away and earn a lot of wins from a lot of people I think next year We are I just like to thank a couple people We are losing two seniors Alex Klunk and Andy van Tynne and I just really enjoyed coaching them the past two years They had more NCAA experience than I had they made it their their sophomore year and I'd like to thank LJ and Corinne who are on the bench from the women's team They were working hard there, you know helping with stats and they they keep the bus rides Kind of normal and when the guys get out of control where I can't control them And I'd like to thank the training staff Connor and Brandon. We had a lot of injuries this year I think we talked about them on different episodes with You know some guys close to deathbed Kyle Bosco Wanting to go on the California trip and kind of slip in on the plane and But anyway, he he actually wanted to mention him in the Stevens match the fourth set Which was pretty much out of control. He came in and we got within striking range at 16 to 10 So he'll be a super asset next year and then I like to thank Brent Whitehead my You can call him an assistant coach. I call him a co-coach He just gives the greatest warm-up speeches and not only that he's my head scout and helps me in practice on the bench and all you know, he could take over the program I'm supposed to do his performance review. I think he could do my performance review Anyway, and then our our chief photographer Brett Adams, you know, he's been there in California and came up to watch us there at Stevens And he's also the AD support cements team That's it. I wanted to make sure I thank those guys. We had a wonderful season because of them Well, I'll keep the thank yous rolling and thank you for coming here weekend and week out and sitting down and doing this and See you next year. Okay. Thanks, Sam. Thanks Joe Right coach all dispersants. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Aldis version show