I have to hand it to them. They run a very quick offense. They have small, quick outside hitters who can hit a very low set. We had a lot of trouble getting two blockers on them, and we weren't skilled enough to beat them one on one.

I hope it's only a sprain. We're just verifying there are no broken bones. In any case, we won't be looking for him to play for a while.

Playing down to their level is usually a problem, but we have to have a mind-set that we're going to play hard before we get there. Last year they had all the emotion and we were lucky to get out of there with a win, and they're going to be excited about playing us again.

Right now, this is the worst serving team I ever had. But we're going to keep banging jump serves, and by the end of the year, we'll be better.

We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting (on Friday). Then we had an hour and a half of video before the game where we looked at the tendencies of all their servers.

We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.