Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State volleyball coach Allie Matters didn’t expect to be hit by a truck Monday morning.
Actually, she’s perfectly fine, of course. But the emotional highs and lows of the grueling Horizon League finals match Saturday — and then watching with her team as the NCAA tourney bracket was revealed the next day — left her feeling as if she’d been run over by something with more than four wheels.
“I’m exhausted,” she said. “Everyone knows about the physical stress, but there’s also a mental stress that goes with this. … I woke up (Monday) morning and said, ‘Holy moly.’”
The third-year coach will have some time to recover before leading the Raiders (16-1) into their second straight NCAA tourney appearance. They’ll face Samford (15-3) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14.
All matches will be played in Omaha, Neb., with the first and second rounds held at the Convention Center.
Since the field was trimmed from 64 to 48 teams, the Raiders won’t have to start out against a daunting opponent as they did in facing Purdue on the road the last time the tourney was played in 2019.
