Deseret News | No. 1 BYU volleyball team avoids first '08 defeat

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No. 1 BYU volleyball team avoids first '08 defeat

Matt | 8:45 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Way to cover you track... don't want anyone to see that you really weren't paying much attention.

Now you can go to the women gymnastic meets up on the hill.

Spocougar | 9:27 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Shouldn't the Deseret News admit at the end of their story that their original version stated that BYU lost?

Anonymous | 9:32 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Keep Crushing

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Bernard | 9:52 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Yay! Go BYU! That like so totally rocks!

Anonymous | 9:57 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Avoided defeat? You mean they won, right. Good grief.

Uhhhh...Are you sure about this? | 10:12 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

I believe you got the BYU Volleyball game wrong. Your article says "BYU suffers first '08 defeat". Where did you get your information? My sources, including UC Irvine's online sports website says BYU won. How could this be?

Loss-win explanation | 11:19 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Look at item on men's volleyball in today's BYU blog to see why there was confusion about whether the team won or loss -- it was a mix-up on UC Irvine's website with bad GameTracker reporting.

C Nelson | 11:57 a.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Imagine my surprise to read in your newspaper that Trent Plaisted had transferred to UNLV! (See GameDay Box with starting lineups.) Also, I am somewhat befuddled how the supposedly undefeated BYU volleyball team could lose to UCI 3-2. (See your boldface type score at the side of the article.) The article says that BYU won the final game. Please get your facts straight.

WOW | 1:54 p.m. Feb. 16, 2008

That got me. When I first woke up and read this article BYU lost. Then after a warm shower, I notice BYU won. Amazing what a shower will do for the BYU team. Not a good day for the sportswriters at the Deseret News. Will there be a job opening up soon in that department. I might be interested.

Asleep at the Wheel | 4:32 p.m. Feb. 16, 2008

Man alive! I drove from SoCal to Gilbert, AZ last night and the first thing I did when I arrived was check my trusty D-News for the V-ball score. Your headline said they lost but the match scores indicated BYU had won the last set. I kept looking at your headline and staring at the scores and it didn't seem right. I just assumed I was really tired and was 'seeing' things after 8 hours on I-10 with weekend traffic and the road closure in Bloomington.

Great job Cougs! Now I'm really kicking myself for missing that game in Irvine after all.

MT in MD | 12:07 a.m. Feb. 17, 2008

It was definitely the game tracker. I went to bed last night after following the fifth set on the UCI/CSTV Game Tracker believing BYU had lost 28-26. That actually didn't make sense to me, because the tracker had showed BYU up 26-22 at one point, so I wasn't sure why a set would end at 28-26 (not 30, more than 15, definitely by more that two points) if it didn't end at 26-22. The glitch explains it.

Go Cougs!

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