The only positive from No. 5/5 Long Beach State’s weekend loss is the latest strength of schedule rankings.
Long Beach State following its home loss to No. 1/1 UCLA jumped to No. 4 and is now has highest strength of schedule ranking among teams projected in Off the Block’s bracketology to be under NCAA Tournament consideration. (more…)
There is still plenty of volleyball left to be played before Selection Saturday but some clarity is starting to emerge in the bracketology. (more…)
It’s now officially less than a month until Selection Saturday and the race remains tight for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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…)
Ohio State may no longer be atop the national coaches poll but it moved to No. 1 in a more critical ranking for Selection Saturday.
Ohio State jumped ahead of both Stanford and BYU to become the new No. 1 in the latest RPI rankings that the NCAA released Monday. (more…)
The youngest college men’s volleyball conference has surpassed one of the oldest in the conference rankings.
The Conference Carolinas at No. 3 finished one-spot ahead of the EIVA in the season’s inaugural conference RPI rankings that the NCAA released this week. (more…)
UC Irvine in the midst of trying to make a late-season run to earn a postseason berth is playing the toughest schedule in the nation.
The Anteaters were ranked No. 1 in the strength of schedule rankings and No. 2 in the non-conference strength of schedule rankings that the NCAA released this week. (more…)
A whole bunch of recent upsets has added even more madness to the bracketology with Selection Saturday a month away. (more…)
A weekend of crazy upsets has led the race for a possible NCAA Tournament at-large bid becoming even tighter.
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…)
BYU despite a weekend loss remains in firm control of the top spot in the RPI rankings.
BYU was ranked No. 1 and had more than a one-hundredth point lead on second-place Stanford in the newest RPI rankings the NCAA released Tuesday. (more…)
BYU will open the final stretch of the regular season at the top of the RPI rankings.
The Cougars were ranked at No. 1 in the inaugural RPI rankings that the NCAA recently released. (more…)