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[URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/sports/scrambled-conferences-keeping-teams-up-in-the-air.html?_r=0']NYTimes[/URL]

When it competed in the Big East Conference, the Connecticut volleyball team was bused to many of its conference road games. This season, its first in the new American Athletic Conference, the Huskies had four two-game conference trips in an eight-week span. Two of them were to Florida (for matches against Central Florida and South Florida) and to Texas (for matches against Houston and Southern Methodist, which required a five-hour bus trip in between matches).

“Travel was tough,” said Connecticut Coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien, whose team finished 14-19 over all and 5-13 in the conference. “Rough and tough."

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Perhaps no college team faced a more formidable schedule this fall than the West Virginia volleyball team. The only Big 12 Conference team east of the Mississippi River and 90 minutes from the closest major airport, W.V.U. had multigame trips to Texas (twice) and Kansas, and single conference matches at Iowa State and Oklahoma.

No wonder Coach Jill Kramer referred to Gate A89 at Pittsburgh International Airport as her team’s “home away from home.”

“At the same time,” she said, “I wouldn’t change our conference affiliation for anything. We needed a change in affiliation to take our program to the next level.”

The Mountaineers finished 0-16 in their first season in the conference last year, but this year they went 5-11 in the Big 12 and 20-13 over all.
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