Cyclones v. Longhorns

I hate empty cliches. There's a bunch of them in sports, but the one about it being so hard to beat a team three times in a season is right up there at the top. Where's the data? That's what I want to know.

Anyhow, the Cyclones couldn't play the error-free volleyball they'd played against Minnesota and in the last three games against Oregon, and one thing you just can't give a team as good as Texas is a boatload of freebies. They gave UT a scare, taking g3 and leading in g4, but then the roof caved in. (Speaking of cliches.) They ran into a brick wall. They ran out of gas. They took a running leap off a very tall building. There was not much hovering, just a bunch of plummeting.

Congratulations to Iowa State on their great run.