In a championship round that featured record-setting voter turnout, North Greenville middle attacker Ben Hamsho was able to pull out the victory to win a national award.
Hamsho received 6,847 votes and 39.28 percent of the total vote in the four-person championship round to win on Tuesday night the inaugural Off the Block Top of the Class Tournament. (more…)
Two outside attackers who were among the EIVA offensive leaders are earning a share of the conference’s top individual honor.
Penn State’s Brett Wildman and NJIT’s Alvaro Gimeno on Tuesday were named the 2020 Uvaldo Acosta Memorial EIVA Co-Players of the Year. (more…)
Off the Block selected the top seniors in college men’s volleyball and seeded them into a bracket, and it is up to the fans to determine who should win the 2020 Top of the Class Tournament.
The Top of the Class Tournament is a bracket-style, five-round event pairing the best seniors from NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams against each other. The senior in each match-up who had the best college career as decided by the fans will advance to the next round. (more…)
The award season for college men’s volleyball is here.
Off the Block each season presents numerous annual national awards recognizing the outstanding individual performances in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball. Check out the statistical leaders for each of the awards. (more…)
Off the Block on select nights will provide the archived game footage from a college men’s volleyball match.
The match shown Monday will be the 1994 MIVA Tournament finals between in-state rivals Ball State and IPFW.
Check back at 9:15 p.m. (CST) Monday for the start of the video stream. In addition, as you watching you can engage with Off the Block and the volleyball community via social media by using the hashtag #WatchPartyMVB. (more…)
There will now be an annual college men’s volleyball award named in honor of a Hall of Famer to recognize the best at serve reception.
Off the Block announced Monday that it will present this season the inaugural Steve Shondell Award to the best passer in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball. (more…)
Off the Block selected the top seniors in college men’s volleyball and seeded them into a bracket, and it is up to the fans to determine who should win the 2020 Top of the Class Tournament.
The Top of the Class Tournament is a bracket-style, five-round event pairing the best seniors from NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams against each other. The senior in each match-up who had the best college career as decided by the fans will advance to the next round. (more…)
The regional semifinal voting has ended and the surprise of this round of voting is that we will have a No. 1 versus No. 2 matchup. After a tournament filled with upsets in the first two three rounds, No. 1 seed Rado Parapunov of Hawai’i will take on No. 2 seed Evan Cory of Lincoln Memorial for the right to advance to the Final Four.
ConfCarolinas leads all conferences with three players advancing to the regional finals, led by two players from North Greenville. No. 9 seed Ben Hamsho had the most dominant performance of the Sweet 16, defeating his opponent, No. 13 seed Henrik Falck Lauten, by better than a 2 to 1 ratio.
Check out the full results from regional semifinal voting below:
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Check out Off the Block‘s interview with U.S. coach John Speraw about the recent IOC decision to postpone the Olympics and how the U.S. Men’s National Team is coping during the coronavirus pandemic.
Off the Block selected the top seniors in college men’s volleyball and seeded them into a bracket, and it is up to the fans to determine who should win the 2020 Top of the Class Tournament.
The Top of the Class Tournament is a bracket-style, five-round event pairing the best seniors from NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams against each other. The senior in each match-up who had the best college career as decided by the fans will advance to the next round. (more…)