The two schools from the East Coast that won conference regular season championships last year will continue their non-conference series in 2014.
Mount Olive recently released its schedule for the upcoming season that was highlighted with a road match against Penn State on Jan. 31.
The NCAA will be picking up the tab for the inaugural men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament play-in match this upcoming season.
The NCAA’s Division I Championships/Sports Management Cabinet voted last week to modify its policy on play-in matches and will begin to start paying for all team expenses associated with new postseason match.
A former IPFW assistant coach will go up against his Hall of Fame mentor in non-conference play this upcoming season.
Lees-McRae with its new head coach Dave Schmidlin have agreed to play a road non-conference match against IPFW during the 2014 season.
Schmidlin spent 10 seasons as an assistant under AVCA Hall of Fame coach Arnie Ball and helped guide the Mastodons to two NCAA Tournament appearances in the 1990s. In addition, Schmidlin spent time as a head coach at Cardinal Stritch before being hired as Lees-McRae new head coach in April.
A former outside attacker at Lewis’ club team will take over the Limestone men’s volleyball program for the upcoming season.
Limestone announced earlier this week that assistant coach Brandon Skweres has been promoted to the team’s head coach for the 2014 season.
Erskine isn’t shying away from scheduling tough non-conference matches entering the program’s second year of existence.
Erskine earlier this week unveiled its 2014 schedule and announced it will play road matches against 2013 NCAA Tournament participants Loyola and Penn State during the upcoming season
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A former professional player from the European Volleyball League will take over a program that has won back-to-back Conference Carolinas championships.
Pfeiffer after almost a month-long nationwide search announced Monday that it hired Paul Lawson to be its new men’s volleyball coach head coach.
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Not all college men’s volleyball teams have the same influence when it comes to social media.
A recent study of NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball team Twitter accounts revealed that Penn State and BYU are leading all other teams in followers — and by a wide-margin.
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The pairings for the inaugural NCAA men’s volleyball play-in match in 2014 is set.
NCAA committee member Ron Shayka confirmed to Off the Block via email Monday that the 2014 conference champions from the EIVA and Conference Carolinas will play each other for the final spot in the four-team NCAA Tournament.
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Another men’s volleyball program will join the Conference Carolinas for the 2015 season.
The North Greenville University athletics department announced earlier this week that it sponsor men’s volleyball beginning in the 2014-15 school year.
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