Almost 20 years since joining the MIVA, Loyola is finally conference championships.
The No. 2 seed Loyola rallied from a one-game deficit on the road to defeat the No. 1 seed Lewis 23-25, 25-23, 10-25, 25-22, 15– on Saturday in Romeoville, Ill., to clinch the program’s first MIVA championship and first trip to the four-team NCAA Tournament.
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The Russell brothers lived up to their all-conference status and have put Penn State back into the NCAA Tournament
Outside attacker Peter Russell had a match-high 14 kills while his younger brother Aaron Russell added 10 kills as Penn State swept Harvard 25-16, 25-16, 25-16 in the EIVA Tournament championship on Saturday in University Park, Pa.
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Three of the four spots to the NCAA Tournament will be decided by the end of the night.
Conference Championship Saturday is here as the EIVA, MIVA and MPSF all conclude their conference tournaments with the championship matches tonight. The winners of these three matches will receive automatic bids to the men’s volleyball Final Four, while the final spot, the at-large bid, will be decided Sunday by the selection committee.
Check out the conference tournament matches from around the nation to follow tonight.
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Six teams are left with a chance to get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament heading into Conference Championship Saturday.
The conference tournaments conclude with Conference Championship Saturday as the EIVA, MIVA and MPSF all will play their championship matches. Here is the initial look and the historical information to know about every conference tournament title match.
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The conference tournament semifinals have created mayhem to NCAA Tournament bracketology as three teams could still potentially land the at-large bid heading into Conference Championship Saturday.
The men’s volleyball NCAA Tournament is comprised of four teams. Automatic bids are awarded to the winners of the EIVA, MIVA and MPSF conference tournaments, and the NCAA Men’s Volleyball National Committee chooses one team for an at-large bid.
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Things just become a whole lot more complicated for the men’s volleyball NCAA selection committee after all the conference tournament semifinals results that included Long Beach State beating UC Irvine to advance to the conference championship match.
Below is the entry from the 2013 NCAA men’s volleyball championship handbook on how the three-person volleyball selection committee determines the at-large team and seeding for the NCAA Tournament.
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The college men’s volleyball postseason continued Thursday with the MPSF Tournament and EIVA Tournament semifinal matches. Check out the match results for every Division I-II men’s volleyball team that was in action Thursday and the updated conference tournament brackets.
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Four more tickets will be punched to Conference Championship Saturday by the end of the night.
The top-four nationally ranked teams will be on display in Provo, Utah, with both MPSF Tournament semifinal matches, including No. 2 UC Irvine playing No. 3 Long Beach State in match potentially critical to the NCAA Tournament at-large bid. In addition out in the East Coast, Penn State will look to continue its 15-year domination of the conference tournament as the EIVA Tournament begins tonight.
Check out the conference tournament matches from around the nation to follow tonight.
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The college men’s volleyball postseason continued Wednesday with the MIVA Tournament semifinal matches. Check out the match results for every Division I-II men’s volleyball team that was in action Wednesday and the updated conference tournament brackets.
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