By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 28, 2022
On Sunday, Nov. 27, the NCAA aired its annual Selection Show for the NCAA Division I Volleyball Tournament on ESPNU. The LSU Tigers, along with many other volleyball teams in the country, waited to see...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 11, 2022
LSU’s weekend series against Tennessee was an important matchup between two teams jockeying for an NCAA Tournament berth, both in danger of being on the bubble on Selection Sunday.
Both teams had a...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• November 3, 2022
“It’s a mindset to me. Do you want to finish this, or do you want to drag this thing out? For some reason, we’ve chosen to drag it out. It’s not like we’re not capable of finishing the match.”
That...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 27, 2022
Head Coach Tonya Johnson has said all season that every game in the SEC is a battle.
She’s said it despite the NCAA’s RPI rankings suggesting that there is a big gap between the top few teams and...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 12, 2022
If there’s one thing you can count on the LSU volleyball team to do, it’s to make a match interesting.
There were points in each of its three matches this past week–one against Auburn on Wednesday...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• October 5, 2022
Tonya Johnson said it all week.
She said it to her players, and she said it to everyone who asked. She said it heading into the weekend, she said it during the weekend and she certainly said it after...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• September 28, 2022
“At the end of the day, we just battled,” said Head Coach, Tonya Johnson, after an incredible first few games of conference play where her Tigers knocked off both No. 15 Kentucky and red-hot No. 20...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• September 21, 2022
Before the season, the SEC’s head coaches projected the LSU volleyball team to be the eighth-best team in the conference of 13. Four weekends into the season, SEC play is looming, and it will put that...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• September 14, 2022
As a team progresses through its season, the hope is for the team to always improve with each game.
Each match provides a new set of things that the team might need to work on, a matchup they recognize...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• September 7, 2022
Scores can often be deceiving. For the casual onlooker who sees the 0-3 score from LSU’s loss to No. 21 Penn State, it may be natural to assume that the Tigers were outmatched, and that in their first...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• September 1, 2022
In the volleyball team’s Aug. 26 contest with Houston, there came a time in the match where LSU seemed destined to push the Cougars to a fifth and final set.
The fourth frame was going well for the...
By Jason Willis, Managing Editor
• August 26, 2022
The first year as a head coach of a new program is always difficult, but new LSU volleyball head coach Tonya Johnson faces the unique challenge of having to replace one of the all-time greats.
With Fran...
