Off the Block

Category: Division I-II

  • Quick hits: 5 things to take away from this weekend’s matches

    It was another weekend of upsets as two top-five nationally ranked teams lost and several college men’s volleyball teams improved their seeds for the upcoming conference tournaments.

    Check out the top five things to take away from this weekend’s action.

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  • The top 5 men’s volleyball stories of the week

    It’s your top five men’s volleyball story list, but with a twist.

    Every Sunday during the men’s volleyball regular season, Off the Block will post the top five best men’s volleyball stories of the week from around the nation. The list, though, is based more on how well the reporter wrote and covered the story rather than just what happened on the court.
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  • Breakdown of conference tournament seeding scenarios

    One week before the conference tournaments begin for automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament and a majority of the tournament seeds remain undecided.

    Check out this breakdown of each team’s conference tournament seeding scenario entering this week’s matches.
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  • Men’s volleyball match results from Saturday

    Check out the match results for every Division I-II men’s volleyball team that was in action Saturday. (more…)

  • Top 5 men’s volleyball matches to follow tonight

    BYU won the MPSF regular season title, but that’s about the only thing that’s been decided for conference tournament seeding with the regular season coming to an end.

    Several teams will play in critical matches to determine the conference brackets highlighted by No. 4 Long Beach State traveling to play No. 5 Pepperdine. In addition, No. 1 BYU will return play No. 3 UCLA on the one-year anniversary of the servegate controversy.

    Check out the top-five men’s volleyball matches from around the nation to follow tonight
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  • Men’s volleyball match results from Friday

    Check out the match results for every Division I-II men’s volleyball team that was in action Friday.

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  • Conference Carolinas announces 2013 All-Conference awards

    The regular season champions Mount Olive earned the most all-conference selections, but Pfeiffer won the biggest Conference Carolinas individual award.

    The league announced Friday afternoon that Pfeiffer outside attacker Caleb Brophy earned the 2013 Conference Carolinas Player of the Year.
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  • Top 5 men’s volleyball matches to follow tonight

    There aren’t as many Friday night matches as usual, but two conference championships can be decided tonight in college men’s volleyball.

    No. 1 BYU eyes getting its first MPSF regular season title in nine years if it can defeat No. 7 UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Penn State plays a non-conference match but can clinch its 15th consecutive EIVA regular season title depending on the outcome of the Princeton-Harvard match tonight.

    Check out the top-five men’s volleyball matches from around the nation to follow tonight
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  • Men’s volleyball match results from Thursday

    Check out the match results for every Division I-II men’s volleyball team that was in action Thursday. (more…)

  • Q&A with NCAA Tourney selection committee member Ron Shayka

    It’s a busy time for the men’s volleyball NCAA committee members with Selection Sunday fast approaching.

    Off the Block conducted an interview earlier this week with Ron Shayka, one of the three members on the selection committee that will decide the NCAA Tournament field. Shayka along with a committee member is the EIVA President and an assistant athletics director at George Mason.

    Check out the interview below to get an inside look at the selection process, the selection committee and the growth of the EIVA.
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