After a loss, a team prefers to spend a good amount of time analyzing what went wrong and trying to correct those mistakes.

The men's volleyball team does not have a good amount of time. It has until 7:30 p.m. today.

After being upset by unranked Navy on Saturday, the No. 12 Lions (15-4, 7-1 EIVA) must turn around quickly and regroup as they travel to New Jersey today for a match against Princeton. Tomorrow, the Lions travel to East Stroudsburg for their final regular season match.

The Lions have defeated the Tigers nine times in a row, including a four-game win on Feb. 5 at Rec Hall. But coming off a loss, the match will have much more significance for Penn State.

"If we can use (the loss) right, it can give us a check on where we are," Coach Tom Peterson said. "It is easy to get satisfied with any type of win, but a loss lets us know a lot about ourselves."

The loss to Navy certainly brought the Lions back to reality. All season long they have set their sights high -- winning the national championship -- and have been looking past all of the conference matches. Now they know that these EIVA teams mean business.

"We were looking over the schedule and complaining about how easy it was," Peterson said. "It is very easy to do that unless you have a good focus. I think we were doing that before the loss."

Because the Lions showed that they can be beat, their upcoming opponents will be gunning after them with full force. And the Lions must be ready.

"I expect everyone to play tough against us because they have nothing to lose," David Muir said. "The other teams see that we lost to Navy and their confidence will be up, so we have to concentrate on these matches."

Some of the players will be looking at these two conference matches as easy wins, and diverting their concentration to the upcoming EIVA tournament.

"After the match we were all a little disappointed, but it was not a major thing," Ricky Roper said. "This will put us in our place ego-wise, because most of us were a little overconfident. It was good to lose because it turned the light on for us."

The Princeton team is set up similar to Navy's squad -- scrappy defense with a few good hitters. The Lions know that they will have a similar battle against the Tigers as they had against the Midshipmen, but they hope the result is completely opposite.

"We have to end with a peak performance here at the end of the season," Peterson said. "We want to finish with these two league matches on a winning note heading into the single-elimination tournament."

The Lions know that they must use these final two matches to prepare themselves for the the EIVA tournament. The team currently sits atop the conference standings, one game ahead of Rutgers-Newark, and must win these last two matches to remain in first.

"These two matches are important in the fact that we need to finish first in the conference," Marcus Neumann said. "We must use them to correct the many mistakes that we had last week -- hitting errors and blocking --to get prepared for the finals."