Ryan Theis' plan heading into this weekend's tournament in Syracuse, N.Y., was to focus on his own team.
The strategy seemed effective in this weekend's Big Orange Tournament.
Ohio lost only one set throughout the tournament and have now won a season-high six consecutive matches.
Our confidence is relatively high right now
Ohio coach Theis said. We're at a point now where we expect to win every night and we didn't think like that two weeks ago.
The Bobcats defeated both Siena and Northeastern, sweeping three out of their last four opponents.
But the highlight of the weekend was a showdown with the host Orange on Saturday night.
The teams exchanged long runs to open the match, and Ohio rallied from deficits on multiple occasions, putting together multi-point runs to take the first two sets. Between the two squads, there were- especially with the new scoring
Theis said of Herman's 1,000th kill. It's never easy (to get a high number of kills) when defenses key on her.
