Off the Block

Category: Big West

  • Barton leaps Penn State in latest RPI rankings

    Photo courtesy of Jay Sowers

    Barton jumped ahead of one prominent EIVA team and into the top 15 of the RPI.

    The defending ConfCarolinas champions edged out Penn State by 0.0002 percentage points to move to No. 15 in the newest RPI rankings that was released Monday. (more…)

  • The Look Ahead: Complete college men’s volleyball schedule for this week

    Check out the complete schedule for every NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball team in action this week. To view the matches this week that will be nationally televised and who will be the announcers for those matches, click here.

    Monday matches

    Erskine vs. Sacred Heart

    Tuesday matches

    Queens vs. Coker
    Erskine vs. Princeton
    King vs. North Greenville
    Bluefield College vs. Lincoln Memorial

    Wednesday matches

    UC Santa Barbara vs. UCLA
    Erskine vs. NJIT
    Lees-McRae vs. Queens

    Thursday matches

    Loyola vs. Ohio State
    Concordia-Irvine vs. BYU
    Pepperdine vs. USC
    Lewis vs. McKendree
    Grand Canyon vs. Stanford
    St. Francis vs. Sacred Heart
    Lees-McRae vs. Limestone

    Friday matches

    UC Irvine vs. Long Beach State
    UC San Diego vs. Hawai’i
    UC Santa Barbara vs. CSUN
    Lindenwood vs. Ball State
    George Mason vs. NJIT
    Penn State vs. Sacred Heart
    Quincy vs. Fort Wayne
    St. Francis vs. Harvard
    Coker vs. Charleston
    Lincoln Memorial vs. Alderson Broaddus

    Saturday matches

    Long Beach State vs. UC Irvine
    Grand Canyon vs. BYU
    UCLA vs. USC
    Loyola vs. McKendree
    UC San Diego vs. Hawai’i
    Lewis vs. Ohio State
    CSUN vs. UC Santa Barbara
    Quincy vs. Ball State
    Concordia-Irvine vs. Stanford
    George Mason vs. Princeton
    Penn State vs. Harvard
    Lindenwood vs. Fort Wayne
    Lincoln Memorial vs. Charleston
    Coker vs. Alderson Broaddus

  • Top college men’s volleyball matches to follow tonight

    Photo courtesy of Lewis athletics.

    Check out all the matches today involving NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams and how to follow them live. (more…)

  • Leaderboard: National stat leaders in college men’s volleyball

    With three weeks left in the regular season, several players and teams have established themselves among the nation’s best in the top offensive and defensive statistical categories. Check out the individual and team national statistical leaders in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball for this week. (more…)

  • Bracketology: Latest NCAA Tournament projections

    Chaos has struck the college men’s volleyball bracketology with Hawai’i losing three consecutive matches.

    Off the Block each week during the rest of the regular season and throughout each round of the postseason will unveil its latest detailed projections to the NCAA Tournament. (more…)

  • Bracketology: Team comparisons using selection committee criteria

    Almost one month until Selection Sunday and 11 teams remain under NCAA Tournament consideration, according to the latest Off the Block bracketology.

    Off the Block has crunched the numbers using the same criteria as the selection committee to show how the top teams in the nation fare against each other in the race for the two at-large bids and NCAA Tournament seeding. (more…)

  • UCLA tops latest strength of schedule rankings

    The toughest schedule in the nation so far this season belongs to UCLA.

    The Bruins were No. 1 in the season’s first official strength of schedule rankings that the NCAA released earlier this week. (more…)

  • OTB, Springbak release new college men’s volleyball national media poll

    CSUN is back in the national media poll following two upset victories.

    The Matadors went form receiving zero votes to being No. 10 in the newest Off the Block/Springbak, Inc. National Media Poll that was released on Tuesday. (more…)

  • Off the Block, Molten unveil National Position Player of Week Awards

    Five college men’s volleyball players have earned national awards for being the best at their position. (more…)

  • Video: Wieczorek lifts No. 7/8 Pepperdine past No. 3/3 Hawai’i

    Outside attacker David Wieczorek had a match-high 22 kills on a .390 attack percentage as No. 7/8 Pepperdine defeated No. 3/3 Hawai’i 27-25, 25-19, 22-25, 25-20 on Sunday in Malibu, California.

    Check out the video highlights of this non-conference match filmed by Off the Block associate editor Jonathan Bates. (more…)