Season Preview: Dark horse teams that could crash 2014 NCAA Tournament

Everyone loves an underdog team that has the capabilities of making a surprise postseason run.

While there are preseason favorites in every college men’s volleyball conference, there are those teams that enter the year with little preseason fanfare but could crash the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season.

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BYU, Ohio State, Ball State most followed men’s volleyball teams on Twitter

BYU may not be opening the season No. 1 in the national coaches poll but it will start the year atop the social media rankings for college men’s volleyball teams.

A recent search of NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball team Twitter accounts showed that BYU as the 2014 regular season begins later this week leads all teams by more than 1,000 followers.

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Season Preview: Preseason favorites to win 2014 NCAA championship

It’s that time of year when every team is hopeful, but there are those select teams have good reason to be even more optimistic about their chances of ending the year as NCAA champions.

With the regular season starting in less than a week, several teams begin the year as the favorites to be crowned national champions in May.
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Off the Block launches NCAA Tourney field prediction Twitter challenge

Tweet your predictions of the teams to make the 2014 NCAA Tournament field for a chance to win a Starbucks gift card from Off the Block.

The Off the Block Pick-Six Twitter Challenge is a new social media contest where individuals before the start of the season can tweet the six teams they predict will make the upcoming Division I-II men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament.
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Top 10 bold predictions for 2014 college men’s volleyball season

There’s always some safe preseason predictions to make every year — and than there’s the crazy, bold ones.

With the college men’s volleyball season less than two weeks away from starting, Off the Block is making its bold predictions on everything from conference championship races to what will happen in the NCAA championship match.

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Top 10 college men’s volleyball storylines from the off-season

A lot has happened in college men’s volleyball since UC Irvine won the NCAA championship in May.

The 2013 off-season has seen everything from major shake-ups to the NCAA Tournament and conference alignments to big non-conference matches being scheduled and new national awards added for the upcoming season. Check out the top 10 college men’s volleyball shorelines from the off-season.
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Loyola picked to repeat as MIVA champs in conference preseason poll

The NCAA Tournament will be played on its home-court and Loyola is now the preseason favorite to make the tournament as the MIVA champions.

The defending-conference champions Ramblers received all but one first-place vote to finish at the top of the MIVA preseason coaches poll that was released Friday morning.

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