For the second consecutive year, The Daily Collegian is the winner of the annual Off the Block Best Men’s Volleyball Online Coverage of the Year award.
The Best Men’s Volleyball Coverage of the Year award recognizes the nation’s top college student-newspaper in college men’s volleyball coverage. The award winners and three finalists are determined based on Off the Block’s season-long analysis of the online coverage for NCAA men’s volleyball on college newspaper websites.
WCRD play-by-play announcer C.J. Allard, The Daily Collegian reporters Garrett Ross and Lindsey Smith and Daily Bruin reporter Leonard Villalobos were selected as the 2014 Off the Block Men’s Volleyball Conference Reporters of the Year.
The MPSF Tournament and MIVA Tournament brackets can now be filled out for a chance to win $50 and $25 Starbucks gift cards.
Off the Block announced last week it would reward the $50 gift card to any participant of its annual bracket challenge who can successfully predict every match result from the four conference tournaments and the six-team NCAA Tournament.
It took the final matches of a four-month regular season to determine all the seeds, but the postseason is now beginning in full force across the nation.
The Conference Carolinas will have its championship match on Wednesday, while MIVA and MPSF will have their conference tournaments quarterfinals starting Thursday. Here is the initial look and the historical information to know about every upcoming conference tournament match before you fill out your bracket.
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Check out Off the Block special contributor Jonathan Bates’ postmatch interview with Pepperdine assistant coach Jonathan Winder following his team’s conference victory against Hawai’i on Saturday to earn a share of the MPSF regular season championship. (more…)
No. 4 Pepperdine is finding its stride at just the right time and now has a share of the conference regular season title.
Pepperdine rallied from a one-game deficit to defeat No. 10 Hawai’i 19-25, 28-26, 25-18, 26-24 on Saturday in Malibu, Calif., to join No. 3 BYU as the Co-MPSF regular season champions.
Erskine and Mount Olive are each now one win away from becoming the first Conference Carolinas team reach the NCAA Tournament.
The No. 1 seed Erskine and the No. 3 seed Mount Olive won their conference tournament semifinal matches on Saturday to advance to the Conference Carolinas championship match. The winner of that title match will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the six-team NCAA Tournament in Chicago.
Check out the match results from the NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams that were in action Saturday.
It’s the final day of the regular season and there is still plenty on the line.
No. 9 UCLA and No. 10 Hawai’i will both play in must-win matches as they try to clinch the final berth in the MPSF Tournament. In addition, three teams still have a shot at the No. 5 seed for the upcoming MPSF Tournament.