Gophers volleyball season ends with loss to Stanford in NCAA semifinals

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Entering Thursday's NCAA semifinal against Stanford, the Gophers volleyball team knew exactly how it measured up. The Cardinal's hitters towered as high as the tree that serves as the team's mascot, with three key players 6-6 or taller and star Inky Ajanaku a relative shrimp at 6-3.

The top-ranked Gophers had seen Stanford earlier this season, in a four-set loss in August. "You can talk about the fact that the block's going to be sizable, but it had been a while,'' coach Hugh McCutcheon said. "And there's no other team really like that. It took us a while to adjust.''

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